What Sets Us Apart.
Proudly providing Newborn and Family Portrait Sessions within your home or the location of your choice; Since 2007.
Erika Hopkins Photography is the Exclusive Boutique Style Portrait Studio for Orlando, FL and Charleston, SC. We want to become your personal portrait concierge. From selecting the "looks", and finding the perfect location to designing custom art galleries, in your home.
Don’t Forget to Shop Our Complimentary Client Closet for your Session! Modern, boho, & couture pieces; many of which can be worn for family, maternity, and even for your family newborn session!
We have gone digital
Happy to share due to client demand; all of our packages now include digital portraits. We want you to be able to show the world your amazing family, and what better way then to be able to share your portraits in digital formant.
Referral Program
We just love our clients, and we love it even more when you love us enough, to tell someone! We think it's time to say thank you for sharing your experience. Upon delivery of your portraits, you will receive more details to our new referral reward program.
We now offer some truly magical boutique products for your portraits! Many of these are showcased in our new Product Guides, (*Please complete the contact section of the website, to receive our product guides) along with our new digital collections, wall display collections and newborn/maternity collections.
A Second Set of Hands
Okay Mom, do you ever feel like the best pictures of your kiddos are when you are standing behind the photographer, making goofy faces? Depending on the ages of your kiddos, we will provide a second set of hands and goofy faces. This way you can hop in the portraits with the family and we can create the portraits you have always dreamed of!
Studio Ordering Appointments
We will previously culled through your portraits and selected the top notch, art display quality portraits. These portraits will be color corrected, we only want to present the best! Since there will be less time spent saying "yes, no" to your portraits, there will be more time to focus on selecting your personalized products. We understand viewing portrait products on your computer does not justify the beauty of many of these boutique items! Select boutique items will be presented during your appointment. We will also present custom art displays, with your top ten selected portraits. This display will be presented within the decor of your home, so you can truly envision how the finished product will look.
Client Consultation Appointments
We provide client consultation appointments, prior to your session. We will discuss your overall style, as well as clothing suggestions; the sky is the limit. Purchasing new outfits for your session are not a must, but many clients like to go shopping for the perfect "look". We can have your consultation appointment over coffee at our studio, or even meet you at a local clothing boutique to help make suggestions, for your overall style.
Portrait Delivery.
There will be several exciting changes being made to our portrait delivery policy, however many of these are fun, exciting, surprises! So you will just have to wait and see...
Full-Service Portrait Print Shop!
“WAIT! Do I have to Order Printed Portraits?”
Nope, not at all! You are welcome to select your included Digital Portraits with no need to order more. [No order minimums around here!]
I will say though, we kinda are the EXPERTS at printing your portraits especially since we know exactly what they should look like when they are printed.
Below is a quick set of tips for ordering from a professional and a little preview of some of the products we offer for creating real-life and in-person lasting heirlooms from your portrait session.
4 Reasons To Order Prints From a Professional
Many times clients ask why purchasing prints through their professional photographer is a much better choice than a do-it-yourself option that may cost less. These days there are many, many low-cost options for non-professionals to have their digital portraits printed in a variety of manners; but before making a decision on how you're going to print your portraits we hope you will consider these thoughts!
The Perfect Crop
Many times we go to order prints without giving thought to the cropping of the image. Most of the time, standard print sizes are a different aspect ratio, or width-to-height ratio, then the actual photograph coming out of the camera that you see on your screen. This means that parts of the portraits' top, bottom, and sides will be clipped off in the final print product. There is great art to cropping a portrait for print, especially to retain the intended composition! When you order a portrait from us, you may rest assured it will be cropped with great care in preserving the artistic value.
Production Quality
There are many consumer-grade printers out there eager for your portrait, canvas, or press book order - it's true! However, at Erika Hopkins Photography we order from a printing lab that specializes in crafting products specifically for professional photographers; a tough crowd to please! The attention to color, craftsmanship, archival quality and guarantee behind the product is unparalleled. Although it may be more expensive to purchase initially, it will last for decades and present each portrait at its very best.
Color
Believe it or not, when editing your portraits we spend an incredible amount of time working to get the perfect color we had in mind for each portrait. It's a painstaking process, but worth every moment! Additionally, we've spent considerable resources developing a strong relationship with our print lab of choice to understand the in's and out's of their materials, the printing process, and how the colors we see on the computer screen translate to colors in their physical prints. Portraits ordered from our studio are tweaked and calibrated to preserve their color from screen to print - something you won't experience with consumer-grade printers!
An Artist's Promise
As artists, we take each step in the process of delivering you a beautiful printed portrait with great care. From snapping the shutter to cropping, coloring, recommending a specific material choice for a specific portrait, and double-checking your prints before handing them to you, every step is taken with the immense love and care of an artist. Erika Hopkins Photography stands behind our finished prints and will not allow a sub-par to be delivered in your hand. We promise you a stellar final product. Period.
DIGITAL ADD-ON PACKAGES
Need more digital portraits than what is included?
Digital portrait add-on packages include a Digital Download & print permission documents for personal use. All portraits will be provided in Color, Black, and White & EHP Signature; fully edited and retouched.
PORTRAIT BOX
You will have a small easel to change out & display your favorite portraits each month, each day, etc. This high-quality portrait box will blow you away!
8x10 Portrait box with 20 5x7 Matted Portraits
11x14 Portrait box with 20 8x10 Matted Portraits
STORYBOARD COLLAGE
Create a small piece of art with a storyboard! You can frame the print, put in on an easel on a shelf, or even just lean it on a shelf.
10x20 or 12x24 Sizes
GALLERY WRAPPED CANVAS
Ready to hang art work! An easy way to dress up your walls.
8x10, 11X14, 16X20, 20X24, 24X30, 30X40
Signature Albums
Great one-of-a-kind keepsake item to capture your favorites from the session.
Signature Albums are Erika Hopkins Photography's highest quality albums featuring Kodak photographic paper mounted on an archival board. They offer a wide selection of cover choices, photographic paper types, and finishing services, ensuring your style is represented in every detail. A true flushmount, prints extend across the entire page.
Sizes
Cover Options
Linen
Our linen line is made of a beautiful linen blend and features an assortment of colors to highlight your imagery. Please note, due to the nature of this material, linen covers may vary in texture.
Leather
Our standard line is made of genuine Italian full-grain leather. These moisture-resistant leathers age beautifully with a rich patina.
Pearlescent Leather
Our pearlescent line is made of genuine Italian enhanced grain leather with a durable finish that is water and stain-resistant.
Distressed Leather
Our distressed line is made of genuine Italian full grain leather and features unique variations with natural markings. Please note: Distressed leathers are made to show the natural wear and tear caused from daily use.
Metallic Leather
Our Metallic leather line is made of genuine Italian full-grain leather.
Debossing
Customize your Album with up to 3 lines of text.
Finish off by selecting one of the 8 different colors & 5 different fonts!
Matted Print Box
Our Matted Prints are fully finished and sealed as an archival piece
Prints are matted and backed with museum grade RagMat 4ply matboard
Choose lustre or semi-matte photographic paper
Let us Frame Your Portraits!
Weathered Black
Silver Ornate
Black Rustic
Gold Patina
Wood
Gallery Ash
Soho Black
Gallery Black
Soho Maple
Gallery Walnut
Soho White
Soho Espresso
Gallery White
White Rustic
White Flat
Blonde Maple
Espresso Walnut
What is Boutique Photography
What custom photography ultimately it is all about choice and experience. Custom photography is about finding someone who will photograph your family, give you devoted 1:1 attention without worry of who is next ‘in line’ or the feeling of a crowded portrait studio.
A custom photographer will typically show you a fairly extensive gallery culled to only show the good images that meet the photographers’ creative sensibilities.
Often the images are fully edited images-color corrected with blemishes and under-eye circles removed.
Custom photographers, offering a range of products and unparalleled service. Think Lexus vs. Hyundai, think Nordstrom vs. Wal-Mart.
Why Choose a Boutique Style Studio
Custom photography is more of a luxury than your entry level cookie cutter chain experience. Custom photography truly is not for everyone, it requires a level of commitment, investment in time and money, forethought and planning on the part of the subject/client and requires a larger time commitment for the us as well.
*The questions provided above, are excerpt from, The Consumer Guide for Custom Photography