1. What you get

2. What it costs and when it's due

A non-refundable retainer of 50% secures the date. The date is not held until the retainer clears. Until then it stays available to anyone else. The balance is due on delivery.

The retainer is earned on receipt and is not refundable if you cancel. It isn't a penalty. It covers the date being taken off the calendar and other work turned away for it, a loss that is hard to price in advance, so this is a reasonable estimate of it.

Two things that are not cancellation: rescheduling once with 48 hours' notice to a date within 90 days (the retainer carries over), and Stuart cancelling or being unable to shoot (refunded in full).

Travel inside Davidson County included; outside is $0.60/mi.

3. Who owns the photographs

Stuart owns the copyright in every image, as author under 17 U.S.C. § 201(a). This is not work made for hire. You receive the licence in Section 4, not ownership.

4. What you can do with them

A non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free licence for press and publicity, social media and your own website, streaming and DSP artwork, and release packaging for your own work.

Not included, and reserved to Stuart:

• any use that promotes someone other than you, and any use you're paid for. Handing a photo to a magazine, festival, label or publicist so they can promote you is included and costs nothing. Wider rights are quoted per project, so send them to Stuart rather than turning them down;
• use as training data for any AI or machine-learning system, and any synthetic derivative;
• altering an image beyond cropping and minor adjustment without written okay.

Credit, "Photo by Stuart Singleton", where the format reasonably allows.

5. What Stuart can do with them

Everyone appearing who signs the release at the shoot grants Stuart the right to use their name, likeness and image to show and promote his own photography work: his portfolio, website and social media, advertising and pitch materials for his photography services, and entry into awards or features about his work.

He doesn't sell these images. They're not offered as prints, not licensed to anyone else, and not put in any book, product or exhibition that's for sale. Any of that would need your separate written permission and would be worked out at the time.

Anyone who doesn't sign isn't used at all. Those frames stay in his private archive. And if there's an image you'd rather he didn't publish, say so in writing within 14 days of delivery and it's withheld. Silence is agreement.

6. Rescheduling and cancellation

Either side may reschedule once at no cost with 48 hours' notice, retainer intact. If you cancel or don't show, the retainer is retained. Weather or anything outside either side's control reschedules at no cost. Stuart may end a session on an unsafe set.

7. Accepting online

Checking the box below has the same effect as signing. The complete text of this agreement exactly as shown here, your name and email, and the date, time and IP of acceptance are recorded, and a copy is emailed to you. Online acceptance doesn't grant likeness rights for anyone, those come from the release signed at the shoot. Submitting a request is not a booking. Stuart confirms the date before any payment is requested.

8. The necessary part

Stuart's liability is limited to amounts actually paid, with indirect and lost-profit damages excluded. If he can't deliver, the remedy is a reshoot or a refund, your choice. You confirm you can grant permission for everyone appearing and that no permit or clearance is needed unless you've said otherwise, and you'll cover Stuart if that turns out untrue. Unpaid balances accrue 1.5% a month or the Tennessee maximum, whichever is less, plus collection costs. Governed by Tennessee law, venue in Davidson County.