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One thing to keep in perspective is in 1 hour, you won't have a million poses to choose from anyhow. 10 pictures doesn't sound like a lot, but I want to say that is how many *great* photos our photographer took, even though she delivered a disc of around 40. She charged us around $200 for a 1 hr session.

I think it depends what part of the country (and probably which country) you're in. I'm in suburban Midwest and $200 per session seems to be the average rate here. I think we were guaranteed 10 pictures, but she sent more if there were more that turned out cute. I think we got like 15.

Realistically, I only needed a few for frames around the house and our Christmas card so only getting 10 wouldn't bother me too much.

We're having photos done on Saturday and it's $450 for a one-hour on-location shoot with a minimum of 25 high-res photos with print release. No print credit. So, while I agree 10 isn't very many, the pricing seems consistent with what I was finding. But, I don't know what market you're in so it might be high for your area...

I'm in the midwest - that seems reasonable. Not only is she giving you a credit but also giving you printing rights for the images. Perhaps you could ask for less print credit and more images?

We usually pay closer to $350 for a 1-hour shoot with a min of 25 edited images on a CD with priniting rights. The photog I usually use is really cool though, and will typically include all of the good shots on the CD; she just guarantees that there will be at least 25.

I don't think it's terrible but I would ask about the cost for more images or skipping the credit in favor of more images or fifteen more minutes of time taking photos or something. I also would want to know how the ten that you get are selected. I feel like the only advantage of them offering ten as opposed to all or the bulk of the photos is so they don't have to edit all of them (but I could be totally wrong on that) and I would want to pick the ones that I got good copies of.

Looking back on my wedding photos I am surprised at which ones are my favorite now as opposed to then, some are the same but now others are more important to me. I could see that being the same with family photos. Right now the one of your kid melting down might just make you grumpy you paid a lot and it became stressful but in five years it might be your favorite because of the pouty lip that was a standard for two years.

I'd probably expect double that amount of photos, personally. Do you get to choose which photos you get? I recently paid $200 for an hour maternity shoot with 30ish edited photos, plus ALL the photos she took in a digital format (60 or so images total. This was a little special case for me since I am capable of editing photos myself). To be fair, I selected about 6 of those photos to put in my baby book, so you only really NEED 10 I guess.

Sounds good to me. As a photographer, I will sometimes have the option for clients to receive a limited number of images via digital download but it's their choice of images. I would have about 30 of the best in a gallery and they select their top 10 or whatever. If they want more, they can purchase more!

Our family shoot a few weeks ago was $150 for an hour outdoor shoot, with 30 images on a cd and full rights to print them as we wish. I think it depends a lot on location. Ours were incredible and done by a woman who does this for her carreer, so not an ammature.