Bar & Bat Mitzvah Photography

Your child's Bar or Bat Mitzvah is an important rite of passage and a celebration of faith to share with family and friends, many of whom will travel from far away to participate in this special day. After all the hard work, the planning, the studying, and the preparations, it will be an emotional day filled with laughter and tears. All of these memories pass by so quickly -- kinderpics photography can help make this a day you will always remember.

As with weddings and other ceremonial events, there are basically two schools of thought about photography at Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. We've all seen the posed formal portraits with the Torah -- beautiful black and white (or sepia) images of the boy or girl with parents and rabbi standing nearby.  Sometimes these "posed" candids are required because photography may not be permitted during the ceremony.  If photography is allowed though, David enjoys photographing in a photojournalistic style, using available lighting and capturing the day's events and emotion with the eye of an unimposing observer rather than that of a director dictating where to stand and how to look.  (Of course, there's still an expectation to have some "formal" photographs.)  David's goal is to capture people within their environment and anticipating the unexpected impulsive actions that can't be captured with a camera fixed to a tripod.  

Bar & Bat Mitzvah Samples

Here are some recent Bar Mitzvah photography samples -- click on a thumbnail (or use arrow keys) to browse through images:

Photography Fees

Fees are based on time, services, and prints ordered. In order to customize kinderpics services to your desires, David encourages a conversation with you to discuss just what you'd like to have, and prices are set accordingly. Here are some example packages to give you some ideas of "standard" packages that can be tailored to your needs.  In all packages you'll get a data disc with high-resolution easily printable JPEG images of all your post-production photographs plus six-months access to a website gallery for you and your guests to view and order prints (if you choose not to print them yourself). 

• The Basic/Short Package for the budged-constrained or small ceremony and short reception typically at the same location, up to four continuous hours of photographer coverage -- $500
• The Standard Package is great for most ceremonies and receptions, you get up to six continuous hours of coverage -- $700
• The Full Day Package lets you capture all the events on your special day, including preparation, before and after family photos, ceremony, and full party coverage until the last guest leaves -- $1000

While you're free to make prints on your own from the JPEG images included on the disc you'll receive, sometimes you'll want to take all the work out of the photography for your day and not have to deal with friends and relatives that would love to get prints too.  You and your guests can have professional prints made by using the online gallery included in your wedding package.  Fees for prints ordered through kinderpics depend on the print size and finish, and start at only $2 for a 4x6 inch print.  There are also a large variety of other items you can have a print reproduced on, including coffee mugs, aprons, mouse pads, aprons, and more. (You might consider something like this for a special thank you gift for special guests.)

Additional service add-ons include:

• Invitation Photo Session - when included in a package, you can get a casual portrait session included for half the normal "family portrait" session fee and use the photos for invitations
• PhotoShow DVD - about 200 images are selected and made into a high-quality 15-minute DVD photoShow including background music of your choice. 
• PhotoBook - you and David choose the photos and David will layout and produce a hard- or soft-cover 20-page bound book.
• Special Image Processing:  Some images will call out for special treatment for enlargements and framing. 

See current fee and service schedule for price detail.