Event & Location Shooting

Please note: Cancellation Policy

We understand there may be circumstances where clients may need to cancel a scheduled photo assignment. Please contact our office by phone or email as soon as possible to let us know the event has been canceled. There is no charge for canceling a photo shoot prior to the photographer’s arrival.

Thank you

If you have an upcoming event you’d like to capture with photos, we can help. Whether it’s a conference, awards ceremony, sporting event, reception, lecture or dedication, you can count on our professional photographers for high-quality images and a timely turnaround.

Photography Rates

Standard Rate

Standard Photography	$90.00/hr
Includes photographer’s time only – proofing, images or prints purchased separately.
Digital Release	$175/hr
Includes photographer’s time and processed images delivered by web download or CD.

Fees

Set-up time (if required)	$50/hr
After-hours	+$25/hr
Weekends	+$25/hr (two hour minimum)
Travel time (off-campus)	$50/hr + mileage

Proofing

Contact sheets	Printed $10 each
	Digital $5 each

Exclusive Rights Shooting

Client has exclusive rights to images. Images will not be made available in the image archive for all university clients.

Hourly rate	$525/hr
Day rate	$2,500
Half-day rate	$1,575

Digital Files – Commissioned Assignments

Sizes

Web Digital Image	96 dpi	$15
Medium Digital Image	300 dpi	$25
Large Digital Image	< Original	$35
Larger sizes, contact us for quote.

Discount

8-14 images	10% discount
15-24 images	15% discount
25+ images	20% discount

A team of U-M paleontologists, led by Daniel Fisher and assisted by a local excavator, work to excavate a mammoth's remains from a farmer's field in Lima township. Photo by Daryl Marshke

U-M Men's Basketball. Photo at Crisler Arena by Eric Bronson

UM Health System doctors spend a week at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in the West African nation of Ghana for a collaboration otolaryngology-head and neck surgery training sessions with their Ghanaian colleagues. Photo by Roger Hart

U-M PSA. Photo in Law School Reading Room by Scott C. Soderberg

Important:

When purchasing a Digital Release rate for an assignment, only the office, department or group associated with the purchasing shortcode has permission to display and distribute images for departmental use. Use of the digital images cannot be transferred to a third party. If someone outside the department wishes to use the images, please direct them to Michigan Photography to arrange payment.

Also note, all of our photographs, including those images shot while on assignment, may be added to our image archive and made available to all gallery visitors.

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