Terms of service
Thank you for choosing Blink of Light Photography to create your precious images.
There a few things to be covered and agreed to before we start your session.
Please read through the terms and conditions below.
Photo Sessions:
In order to reserve your date, a 50% deposit is required for your session. This pays for the work I do upfront organizing your photo session, my time and talent the day of the shoot, and professional editing of your images afterward. Because I am turning away other clients in order to serve you on your date, the deposit is non-refundable.
The session can't take place if anyone is displaying any cold/flu symptoms or if been exposed recently to someone who has tested positive, have tested positive themselves and not yet negative etc. I'm also allowing refund of session fee if they need to cancel due to restrictions or illness.
If the client is unable to make the session on the date agreed or cancels the engagement, Blink of Light Photography requires 24 hours notice. The deposit paid to secure the shoot is nonrefundable although transferable to another date within the following 12-month period. Every effort will be made to reschedule but this might not always be possible. In the event of changes to the studio price list, prints and product pricing and availability for sessions will apply as at the newly booked date. If the photographer fails to appear at the time / location as agreed, the deposit shall be refunded to the client or a new date arranged if the client so wishes.
The client shall assist and cooperate with the photographer in obtaining the desired photographs. Due to the nature of the session, each photography shoot will be highly unique. Pre-session consultation done either in person / over the phone / or email will address aims of the session and provide information on how to make sure you session will run smoothly. Any wishes or session ideas will need to be made clear at this pre-shoot consultation or via the online questionnaire.
Payment:
A session deposit is to be made at the time of booking for a session.
After the shoot (please allow up to three weeks) you will receive a proofing on-line gallery for you to select your favourite images for further editing.
Prices on the website are subject to change at any time. Blink of Light Photography aims to keep pricing up to date and correct but understands that there can be cross overs with current prices. All prices are in Australian dollars. Once your session deposit is paid, the price you booked at honored to you. Please make sure that you happy with all pricing, for all products at the time of booking.
The client acknowledges that they have received, read and understood Blink of Light Photography’s price list, including minimum spend if applicable. Acknowledgement of this is confirmed via payment of the session deposit.
The maximum number of people to be included in the session is five, additional people are charged at $25.00 per head.
Weekend session surcharge is $100 and added to your total amount.
Images, Products & Copyright:
The copyright of the images belongs to Olga Efimova, the photographer at the Blink of Light Photography in all cases whether images are purchased or not. The images provided from the Blink of Light Photography to the client are licensed to you for personal purposes only, including, but not limited to, printing, copying, emailing, and web publishing. No images from your shoot can be used for, including but not limited to, financial gain, advertising, stock photography, print sale profits or resale of any nature, media reprinting, competitions.
You / or anyone else other than Olga Efimova of the Blink of Light Photography may not under any circumstances edit, alter or change images, which include but is not limited to photo editing apps or software, filters such as Instagram.
Copyright of all images remain with the photographer, but full personal printing rights are granted to the client.
No unedited or raw images will ever be handed over to the client. After editing, the Blink of Light Photography will only keep high resolution J-Pegs.
If for any reason there is a technical failure and images are lost. The booking fee will be refunded ASAP or a re-shoot will be arranged.
Additional editing & Photoshop Work: Images shown in the client gallery include basic retouching according to Blink of Light Photography’s discretion. Further custom or client directed retouching is an additional $25 per image.
Printing/Saving:
• Saving, copying, uploading of ANY un-purchased images including screenshots is not allowed. This is theft of images and can be heavily penalised once discovered. Photocopying, scanning or duplicating of prints in anyway is not allowed.
• Please note that all monitors and screens will all view the images different if not calibrated. I do not hold any responsibility for the quality of prints or products printed by third parties. You are not obliged to print through me, but if you decide to print elsewhere, please make be aware that my images are shot at a ratio of 3:2, that means to print your images without parts of the images being cropped away, please select the sizes 4x6, 8x12, 10x15, 12x18, 16x24, 20x30, and so on. Some images can have individual artistic crop of 5:4. You can print at any size, but please be warned that your image crop may change.
• Its very important to save your images directly to a computer and back them up. Once digital images have been purchased and received, the Blink of Light Photography will not keep or back up or be responsible for photographs from the shoot.
Blink of Light Photography will provide an online gallery of proofs within 3 weeks of the session date unless otherwise notified. Orders are to be placed online within 31 days. The gallery automatically deactivates on the 31th day. If circumstances arise that the client is unable to place their order during the initial 31 days, the gallery can be reactivated for one additional 7-day timeframe. Any further reactivations will charged a Reactivation Fee of $50 per 7 day time slot, payable prior to reactivating the gallery.
Due to gallery limits and cost of storage, where an order has not been received and paid for within 30 days of first gallery expiry date, the images will be deleted. All orders must be confirmed in writing and accompanied by full payment before any order will be placed.
All images will be deleted from the Blink of Light Photography’s hard drive within 120 days (unless I hold them with permission for my portfolio). Images saved to a mobile phone or mobile device will be poor quality and unsuitable for quality printing.
Data holding:
• As a photographer I rely at times on having a portfolio of work to share with other clients. I will always get permission from all clients when using images in my portfolio. When permission is granted, I am then able to use images for publications, promotions, illustration, advertising or trade, in any matter or media situation. If your wishes change after signing the form, please contact the Blink of Light Photography in writing stating that you would like to retract permission. Your photographs held by the Blink of Light Photography can be of sensitive nature and I would never share a photograph that you did not want to be seen by others. You can choose not to have any of your images used in my portfolio, but please be aware, your photos will not be then used within any blog posts or international awards, which many families enjoy being part of
• I do keep a copy of your email address on file. By having your email, that means I am able to let you know in the future of any offers and when your images after 6 months are ready to be deleted off my hard drive. All digital documentation including your personal data is password protected. I do not send regular emails, unless you sign up to my email subscription (that you can opt in and out of at any stage). Personal data, including name and addresses are also kept on a password protected system and strictly only used by me for locating you for your session / delivery of products. Your images are kept securely on my own personal pass-coded computer and back up hard drive in which no other person has access too.
• All purchased images will remain on file for one year but this time frame is not guaranteed and your data may be destroyed earlier or later than this. Some images are kept for advertisement and/or portfolio purposes (if agreed by the client). Paper documentation including your data is also kept secure in my own home (business address) away from other peoples sight. Due to file storage limitations, un-purchased images will be deleted on 31 December each year at the discretion of Blink of Light Photography. Ordering further prints and products is available until that date each year.
• Due to client protection, session photographs will only be sold to the persons who made the booking
Model Calls:
• The purpose of model calls is to develop skills, practice the use of any equipment or to simply update my portfolio. Because of this full permission is needed from the model to use images for portfolio / advertising. Unfortunately, if you are not happy for the images to be used in this way, the session cannot go forward and you may not receive any complementary images that were agreed. Model calls receive 3 free digital images via on-line gallery download. Please make sure that these images are opened and save to a computer and backed up on a hard drive if you can. I will get a notification once you have downloaded. You have two days to download before the transfer becomes void. There is no pressure to purchase any extra images, but if you wish to, there is $120 off all digital packages and $50 credit towards wall gallery frames and albums. There is no reduced rate on single prints.
This information shall be printed and signed by both the client and the photographer before the photographic shoot.
There will be options to opt in and out for the client.