There are many ways to artfully
capture a perfect series of images.
The most memorable ones tend to begin with a willingness to invest in the best possible version of what you envision. For many, this is a once-in-a-lifetime experience — and the images should feel that way long after.
This is a completely
customizable experience.
See something you don't resonate with? Change it. This overview is meant to give you all of the information — so there are no surprises — while also arming you with the knowledge to make the most educated decisions possible. Not only for this session, but for every session you pursue with any photographer, for years to come.
Sessions Start at $500
Every session includes the following — regardless of your investment level.
Every Session Includes
&
A Fully Directed Session
You'll be guided through every moment. Direction, posing, and presence — that's my job. You just have to show up.
1 Outfit
Your session is built around one curated look. Additional outfit changes may be discussed during your consultation.
Pre-Session Prep Guide
Sent before your shoot — wardrobe direction, what to expect on the day, and how to prepare so you arrive confident.
Image Review Gallery
After your session, you'll receive a professional online proof gallery — a curated selection of your images presented for review. For Fully Retouched and Mastered sessions, this is where you choose which images get retouched and delivered.
Final Image Delivery Gallery
Your completed, edited images are delivered through a private, professional online gallery — built for a seamless download and viewing experience.
Personal Use License
All delivered images are licensed for personal, non-commercial use — social media, personal printing, and personal display.
What experiences are available
with my budget?
The ranges below are a general guide — not exact quotes. Every session is priced individually around your specific vision, image count, edit tier, and creative scope. Hair, makeup, and wardrobe styling are always independent services priced by the individual vendor.
Your session fee gets you one location, one outfit, your choice of foundational image package, and a fully directed experience from start to finish. Clean, intentional, and personal — a real session built around a real moment.
- 1 location
- 1 outfit
- Your choice of 5 Mastered Images or 9 Fully Retouched Images
- Professional Image Review Gallery & Final Image Delivery Gallery
- Pre-Session Prep Guide
At this range your session begins to expand — more images, more variety in looks and locations, and access to studio environments. This is where many specialty sessions become attainable for the first time, and where clients with specific creative goals tend to land.
- Additional images added to your foundational package
- Instant Images available as an add-on alongside your Mastered or Fully Retouched Images
- Studio sessions become available
- Up to 2 locations at $850+
- Small-scale model test shoots typically start here
- High school senior editorial sessions typically start in this range
- Maternity sessions typically start in this range
This is where the work shifts from a personal session to a creative experience. Premium session styles open at this level — more conceptual, more intentional, and more deliberate in every visual choice. You also receive your first exclusive session perk: the Instant Noir First Look.
- Goddess Sessions become available
- Celestials sessions become available
- Instant Noir First Look: 5–10 bonus black & white images returned within 72 hours of your session
- Photographer may gift bonus images at their discretion
- Budget flexibility to begin fusing multiple creative styles into one session — each style often requires its own location, lighting setup, and creative direction, and this range starts to make that possible
- Dedicated Set Assistant available at $1,300+
- Up to 3 locations at $1,300+
- 3 fine art 8×10 prints included at $1,300+
Signature sessions are high-concept, visually complex experiences that go beyond a camera and a location. At this level, the pieces come together — styling artists, on-set support, and specialized equipment can all be woven into your session. Note: bringing in hair, makeup, or wardrobe artists are independent services and do not affect your session perks. They simply expand what's possible on the day.
- Siren Sessions (adult, pool only) become available — Mastered Images only
- Submerged Sessions (youth, pool only) become available — Mastered Images only
- Mobile studio equipment available for off-studio locations at $1,900+
- Priority+ gallery delivery: Final Image Delivery Gallery returned within 3 weeks of your image selections
- Those looking to build out a full model portfolio in a single session should strongly consider this range
- Styling artists — hair, makeup, wardrobe — can be meaningfully integrated into the session through independent vendors
This is where photography stops being a service and becomes an event. At this level, we build productions — rare locations that may not exist tomorrow, props that cannot be sourced twice, styling teams assembled around a single creative vision. The sessions created here are not repeatable. They are singular experiences, executed with full intention, and delivered as fine art. If you have ever looked at an image and thought "how did they even make that" — this is where that answer lives.
- 2 Dedicated Set Assistants on set
- Up to 2 hours of studio time included
- 24-hour behind-the-scenes video First Look
- DreamLand and Melancholia sessions — fine art experiences that employ rare props, limited-access locations, and full creative production teams
- At $4,500+: Photographer and assistant travel to you. Travel and lodging fees apply and are quoted transparently.
- At $4,500+: Priority++ delivery — Final Image Delivery Gallery within 2 weeks of your selections
Session Genres
Each genre has a distinct visual world. Some are easy and relaxed. Some are rare and irreplaceable. All of them are built around you.
Tap any tier to explore
Warm, nostalgic, and deeply candid. Wanderlust sessions are for those who don't want to stare down a lens — they want to move through a beautiful natural setting and be caught in the feeling of it. Soft light, flowy wardrobe, unhurried pace. These images feel like a memory before they're even edited.
The city is the playground. Murals, alleys, rooftops, parks, storefronts, bridges — wherever the environment leads. Urban Adventure sessions are laid-back and exploratory, perfect for those who want a fun, easy shoot without anything feeling overly staged. The city does most of the work.
Open water. Sand. Natural light and movement. Swim sessions are coastal and free — the kind of images that belong in a summer editorial. Shot on the beach and at the water's edge, these sessions capture ease, warmth, and the energy of being exactly where you want to be.
Angels walk among us — and these sessions prove it. Earth Angels are grounded in the real world, styled in everyday fashion, and shot primarily in urban environments. The magic is subtle: something in the light, something in the frame that makes the ordinary feel quietly otherworldly. Beautiful without being fantasy.
Shot after dark in the city. Grain, color-saturated tones, and vibrant pops of light pulled from neon, signage, and whatever the night offers. Street fashion styling. A cinematic visual language built on two-tone color balance or the 60-30-10 color grading rule. LoFi sessions look like a film still from a movie that doesn't exist yet.
Feminine power, claimed fully. Lethal Woman Editorials are edgy, intentional, and styled — shot primarily in studio, though not always. These sessions carry an edge that doesn't ask for permission. Every Lethal Woman session includes 5 Instant Noir Images as part of the experience.
Pure fairy whimsy. Soft, enchanted, and completely its own world. These sessions lean into the magical and the playful — the kind of images that feel like they belong in a storybook. Light-filled, ethereal, and joyful from start to finish.
Victorian and baroque sensibility reimagined through a modern editorial lens. Soft and romantic in structure, but styled with darker, richer tones that keep it from feeling like costume. Lace, florals, corsets, ornate settings — luxurious garden environments or dramatic Victorian interiors. Built for youth clients who want something whimsical, beautiful, and genuinely editorial.
Shot on the beach with a vintage editorial eye. Think the blown-out, sun-drenched pages of a magazine from another era. On and off-camera flash techniques are layered with niche post-processing to achieve images that feel like they've always existed somewhere. Film grain, warm tones, and a quiet confidence that no digital clean edit can replicate.
The regal counterpart to LoFi. All the same visual DNA — grain, color-saturated tones, cinematic grading — but executed inside a studio environment with elevated styling in place of street fashion. Greater control of lighting allows for more advanced techniques and the ability to shift setups dramatically within a single session. Less scenic. More commanding.
One of the most beloved session styles offered. Goddess Sessions are almost always shot on the beach — elemental by nature, incorporating earth, water, wind, and at times even fire. This is a healing and empowering experience rooted in the idea of bringing your metaphysical goddess into the physical world. Long, flowy styling. Deeply freeing. Each session is entirely unique to the person in frame — what matters most is how you want to feel when you see the images.
Mystical, otherworldly, and visually unlike anything else. Celestial sessions always incorporate large, ornate wings as a defining element of the shoot. The energy can go in either direction — light and luminous or dark and dramatic — giving each session a dualistic range that makes every result singular. If there is a visual language that exists between this world and whatever lies beyond it, this is it.
A newer experimental style and one of the most cinematic in the collection. Dystopia sessions draw from the visual language of Mad Max, The Matrix, and post-apocalyptic editorial — fashion styled heavily to theme, environments chosen for their grit and tension. Raw, dramatic, and unlike anything typically seen in portrait photography. This genre is still evolving, which is part of what makes it exciting.
Fully submerged underwater photography, always shot in a pool environment — never the beach. Siren sessions are technically demanding and visually unlike anything produced on dry land. Ethereal, magnetic, deeply cinematic. A wider range of styling options is possible here than in any other water-based session. Only Mastered Images are available — these images deserve nothing less.
The same concept as the Siren, scaled for age-appropriate safety and executed with heavy parental involvement throughout. Pool-based only, never the beach. Results may vary more than adult sessions given the nature of working with younger subjects in water — and that is factored into the process from the start. Only Mastered Images are available.
Surreal and luminous. DreamLand sessions are built around locations that are fleeting, props that are rare, and creative visions that require an entire team to execute. These are not sessions that can be recreated — the location may be gone, the lighting window too narrow, the moment too specific to repeat. Specific styling is always part of it. What comes out the other side is not a photograph. It is a work of art capturing something that no longer exists.
The dark mirror of DreamLand. Melancholia sessions exist in the space between shadow and intention — moody, cinematic, and emotionally charged. Like DreamLand, these sessions require rare props, limited-access or disappearing locations, and styling built specifically for the concept. No two Melancholia sessions look alike. None of them can be fully repeated. The results carry a weight that persists long after the session ends.
Optional Experience
Enhancements
These are optional additions that expand the scope, environment, or production value of your session. None are automatically included unless noted in your quote.
The glamorous and regal lighting of a studio fashion editorial — brought to you. A dedicated on-scene assistant wields a powerful mobile studio strobe with softbox, wrapping every frame in rich, cinematic light that transforms a moment into the moment. From magazine cover to movie poster.
Video enhancements must be requested before your session and are billed post-session.
Booking rate is locked when your session is reserved. Post-session rate applies when images are added after your session wraps.
Standard timeline: 4–6 weeks after proof gallery selections.
Eligibility: Fully Retouched Images and Mastered Images only — Instant Images already run accelerated.
Proof gallery return is unaffected — standard 7–10 business days regardless of tier.
To qualify: A brief in-person selection immediately after your session is required.
All rental fees are quoted transparently before any session where they apply.
3rd Party Styling Services
Hair stylists, makeup artists, and wardrobe stylists are independent vendors — not employed by Rook Barber Photography. Their services are priced by the individual artist and quoted separately from your session fee. Vendor coordination is available at the $1,300 investment level and above.
Cost ranges shown below are industry estimates only — not vendor quotes. Final pricing is set by the individual artist.
Commercial Usage & Licensing
Any session where the resulting images will be used for commercial purposes — advertising, brand campaigns, product promotion, editorial publication, resale, or any revenue-generating application — requires a commercial usage license in addition to the session fee. Licensing protects both parties and ensures the scope of use is clearly defined before delivery.
Using images beyond the scope of your license agreement — including unauthorized commercial use — constitutes a copyright violation and will be addressed accordingly. If your needs change after delivery, extended licensing can be purchased at any time.
Incidentals
Not automatically added — but may apply depending on scope, timing, or circumstances. All fees disclosed transparently before your session.
Common Questions
Every session starts
with a conversation.
Share your vision. Share your budget. A custom quote follows. This is not transactional photography — it is collaborative, intentional image-making built around you.
Start Your InquiryPackage pricing reflects booking rates. Post-session rates shown smaller beneath. Savings noted are relative to standard per-image booking rates. Instant Images are limited to 15 maximum across all packages. Final pricing confirmed during the booking process.
All package pricing is based on booking rates unless otherwise noted. Post-session rates listed where applicable. Flash discounts may be offered day-of or at proof gallery delivery and apply on top of listed package savings.