How Ottawa Home Portraits works

Ottawa Home Portraits come to life in two ways:

  • Commissioned shoot:  You can commission a free photo shoot by selecting a free 'Commission custom portrait shoot' item, providing your address, identification details, and preferred date.  After any necessary correspondence, Ottawa Home Portraits will then photograph your home, prepare the digital portrait, and offer to sell you (without obligation) the digital image and perhaps prints and frames.
  • Prospective shoot:  Ottawa Home Portraits selects area homes for their architectural, horticultural, or landscape appeal, and then mails an offer to sell the digital image and perhaps prints and frames.

     

    Photographic vantage point:

    • Commissioned shoots are on agreed dates and times, exploiting the circumstances and featuring your home in its best light.  Commissioned shoots can be taken from within your property IF agreed.
    • Prospective shoots are ONLY made from a public position, typically across the road from your home.  

     

    You may wish to schedule a commission shoot on a particular date:

    • To capture fall colours, freshly mowed lawns, blooming flowers, first snow, etc.
    • To capture Halloween, Christmas, or other decorations (including night shots).
    • To avoid cars on driveways or other distractions.
    • To capture renovations or other developments.

     

    Privacy issues:

    • Prospective shoots are NEVER made from private property.
    • Home portraits do not reveal home interiors except as naturally visible from the vantage point.
    • Home portraits are never visible or made available to the public or other clients - although your purchased image is yours to share or display as you wish. 
    • Home portraits may display house street numbers but never street names.
    • You may instruct Ottawa Home Photography to make no further prospective shoots and send no further communications.

     

    Digital image manipulation:

    • Original photographs are expertly cropped to best feature your home,  Final image pixel counts and aspect ratios may therefore vary.
    • Overall light settings are expertly adjusted for realism,
    • Ottawa Home Portraits does not impose or offer other image modifications or alterations,
    • No artificial intelligence creation or manipulation is ever involved.

     

    What do you receive?

    • Expertly cropped and adjusted digital image file - yours forever to use as you please.
    • Original unmanipulated digital image file,
    • No-obligation printing and framing offers.

     

    What else happens to the image?

    1. Ottawa Home Portraits will NEVER sell, rent, share, or reuse the portrait without your permission.  (In some cases Ottawa Home Portraits may seek to negotiate approval to use your home portrait for marketing.)
    2. Ottawa Home Portraits will archive your image so that you can request the download link again whenever you like.

     

    What are my options if I am shown a prospective shoot options?

    • You may purchase the cropped and adjusted digital image file,
    • You may purchase prints and or frames,
    • You may commission a new shoot,
    • You may request that Ottawa Home Portraits make no further prospective shoots and send no further communication,