Your Name (main contact)
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First Name
Last Name
Email Address
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Phone (call or text)
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Instagram Handle (if applicable)
Anticipated Date of Session
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General location of the session (not required if not decided yet)
1. LEVEL OF SERVICE:
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The below-mentioned client shall pay the company all extra costs that the company may request for travel at a rate of $1.00/mile after 30 miles, one way. Balance of session must be paid in full no later than the day prior to the session. The company will view the event as cancelled if the second payment is not received.
2. DELIVERY:
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If photos are a part of the session photographs will be delivered to the client via digital gallery no later than 6 weeks after session. The client may request a USB of photos for $35.
3. CREATIVE CONTROL:
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The company retains full creative control over all images produced by the company during session. Photos produced by the client are fully theirs with creative control to alter and edit as the client wishes. Credit should only be given to the company as a mentor of the shoot or session.
4. SOCIAL MEDIA:
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Client agrees to not use screenshots of photos taken by the company for any reason, including profile photos, cover photos or for any other online display. AT NO POINT MAY INSTAGRAM OR ANY OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA FILTERS BE APPLIED TO PHOTOGRAPHS CREATED BY THE COMPANY. Client will find their gallery to contain web size downloads for social media use. The company will also post images to personal and business social media accounts at its discretion, barring nudity, and will not remove an image once posted.
5. CLIENT COOPERATION:
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Client will assist and cooperate with the company in gaining any requested photographs, such as specifying the people and location to be photographed; assisting the photographer in posing at the photographers direction; pre-consultations, etc. The company is not responsible for photographs that are not taken due to clients or volunteers failure to cooperate
6. FEDERAL COPYRIGHT LAWS:
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IF photographs produced by the company are delivered to the client: The company maintains the copyrights of all images and hereby issues the client unlimited but non-exclusive rights to use or reproduce the purchased photographs. Client may not use photographs for commercial use. Photographs will be used for advertising and marketing by/at the photographer’s discretion. At no point will any raw photos be released to the client. If the client would like to buy out the copyright to photos owned by the company, the amount is $2,000 for the loss of use and any potential event loss.
7. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY:
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If the company cannot perform this Agreement due to fire or other casualty, strike, act of God or other cause beyond the control of the parties, or due to photographer’s illness, then the photographer shall return the deposit to the client but shall have no further liability with respect to this Agreement. This limitation on liability shall also apply in the event that the photographic materials are damaged in processing, lost through camera or memory card malfunction, lost in the mail, or otherwise lost or damaged without fault on the part of the company. In the event of file corruption or loss, a refund will be given with the exception of travel costs. In the event that the company fails to perform for any other reason, the company shall not be liable for any amount in excess of the retail value of the Client’s order.
8. LEAVE NO TRACE:
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Clients and Clients’ agents understand and agree that they have read and will abide by the “Leave No Trace” principles of outdoor ethics here: https://lnt.org/why/7-principles/. Company fully abides by these principles and Clients agree to: (1) plan ahead and prepare for time in the outdoors by researching & acquiring adequate attire and gear for a safe and enjoyable outdoor experience including, but not limited to, proper footwear, food and water, adequate layers, etc.; (2) not travel or camp on fragile surfaces such as Tundra, cryptobiotic soil, fragile moss, wildflower meadows, etc.; (3) properly dispose of waste and not litter (e.g. no throwing confetti, non-native petals or leaves, or leaving any other type of trash or garbage or “trace of an event” on a trail or at elopement location such as a champagne cork, or otherwise) and come prepared and properly dispose of human waste; (4) leave what they find including, but not limited to, not picking wildflowers or collecting anything or making any kind of permanent mark like carving into a tree or graffitiing a rock; (5) minimize campfire impacts, always drown any fires, and strictly follow all fire bans (including the use of sparklers, smoke bombs, and any other kind of fireworks); (6) respect wildlife (including not chasing, harassing, touching, feeding or getting too close to any wild animal); and (7) be respectful of other visitors and understand that public lands are for everyone and cannot be privately reserved or gatekept for an event (e.g. Clients may not get upset if there are other hikers on a trail). In the event Clients or Clients agents violate this code of sustainability ethics, Company reserves the right to immediately terminate its services. Company shall be entitled to retain all monies paid and Clients agree to relieve and hold Company harmless as a result of incomplete photography coverage.
10. PERMITTED USES:
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The company retains copyright ownership of all photos they produce during the session and they may be used for marketing, blogging or any other public use deemed appropriate.
This Contract shall be governed by the laws of the State of Arkansas in Washington County & any applicable Federal Law.
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