What your interior photo license actually lets you do
You hired a photographer, the images came back looking great, and now you want to put them to work. A designer wants to submit the project to a magazine. A builder wants the shots on the website and in a printed brochure. Someone always asks what they are actually allowed to do with the files. Here is how it works with my images, in plain terms, so nobody has to guess.
What you can do with the images
Every image I deliver comes with a license that is perpetual, worldwide, and non exclusive, across all media. That covers your website, social, print, paid ads, your portfolio, awards and design submissions, and press. There is no expiration date and no per use fee. Once the shoot is paid and delivered, you can keep using those images for as long as you are in business, in as many places as you need them.
Magazines and editorial are included
This is the part that surprises people. A lot of photographers treat editorial and magazine use as a separate, restricted, or extra paid thing. Mine is not. My license lets the work run in magazines and publications, and it stays that way if the same images run again in another title down the road. So if your project gets picked up, you are already cleared to say yes. I shoot regularly for Charleston Style and Design and Atlanta Style and Design, so I build features with that path in mind from the first frame.
Sharing with your own team is fine
You can hand images to the people who work on your behalf, your own agencies, your printer, and the publications you are working with. That is normal use and it is covered. The one line that does not move is this. Images cannot be sold, given away, or handed to unrelated third parties for their own independent use. So the tile company or the cabinet maker who worked on the project cannot pull a photo off your website and run their own ad campaign with it. They are welcome to license their own set from me, which is easy to set up. I also ask that images are not materially altered beyond standard cropping, so the work stays consistent with what ran.
If more than one party wants the shoot
Designers and builders often work the same house, and there is no reason to shoot it twice or pay full freight twice. When two or more parties share a single shoot, one party pays full price and each added party comes in at a 30 percent collaboration fee rather than another full package. Everyone who pays in is fully licensed for their own use. It lowers the cost per client and gets the whole project team covered in one day on site.
The practical numbers
The packages are Essential at 1,125, Standard at 2,250, and Premium at 3,850, with a Signature multi day option quoted per project. Editorial and magazine commissions are quoted per project as well. Additional finished images beyond a package are 175 each. A 500 dollar deposit books the date and credits toward your total, turnaround is about three weeks, and travel anywhere in Charleston County is included. If a quote ever looks unclear about what is and is not covered, ask me before you assume, and I will spell it out.
If you are a designer or builder trying to get a project shot once and used everywhere it needs to go, that is exactly what this is built for. Reach out any time at /contact.