Family Portraits Last a Lifetime - and Beyond

January 10, 2008 |

I have a big family. Two brothers, two sisters, and my parents. I live across the continent from all of them except for my older brother in Nebraska, who is still a long, long way away.

When you’re far from family, you reach for anything that evokes home. Emails and phone calls are absolutes for me, so are the annual visits I make back to Dutchess County in upstate New York.

I love Vancouver, but it’s difficult being apart. It’s why I tell my clients that they’ll always treasure their family portraits. You never know where life will take you and those photographs are wonderful heirlooms and historical documents for our lives when we’re all together in one place.

Unlike at a wedding, when the schedule for brides and grooms is tight and the time for portraits is rightly focused on them, the family portrait provides for two or more hours of attention on the entire group and the dynamic relationships within it.

To read more about this topic, visit my main website for an article on “Hiring a Vancouver Portrait Photographer”.

For package prices or to schedule a portrait, contact me by email (julia@juliapelish.com) or phone (604-836-1412). My standard family portrait package is $395 and includes:

- 2 hours of personal service by myself and an assistant on location, in your home or in my Yaletown home-studio.
- Use of my studio equipment, including full professional lighting system, multiple Nikon bodies and lenses, and more.
- 1 large custom print (11×14 size) that’s matted and framed.
- 2 other smaller custom prints (5×7 each) presented in folio.
- Digital processing, enhancing and editing of all images.
- A web gallery of images from which to select.

I also offer packages that include stylists and wardrobe consultants, as well as additional prints and albums, and film images taken with a medium-format Hasselblad camera with Zeiss lenses. Let me know what you’d like!

PHOTO: Cindy, Samantha and Isabella, as photographed in 2007. (Photo by Julia Pelish)