Prints & Products
Photographic Prints are still one of the most treasured products by families today. Help preserve and share your memories for generations to come with these archival print products.
We offer different finishes and sizes for different tastes and budgets. There are wallet sizes and holiday cards, wall portraits up to 100 inches on fine art canvas, and everything in between. Unlike other photographer’s quick “Edits”, each portrait and person is refined and touchup by the Master Photographer and Digital Portrait Artist so you look your natural best. Your portraits are processed, adjusted, toned and may include wrinkle reduction, slenderizing and body contouring. They also come mounted with a protective coating archivally rated for 100 years. The materials, quality and craftsmanship of our printed portraits set them apart and maximize their longevity. 8”x10” prints start at $150-250 ($150 when you pay for your portrait order the next day after your session in our studio gallery) Small wall sizes start at $500. 10 page albums start at $1800. Most families choose a larger wall portrait as a focal point in their living room area, (24”x30” mantelpiece starting at $1300) accented with smaller prints of different poses and groupings around the room and for other areas of their home and office. Average individual families usually invest a few thousand dollars on their photographic portrait art collection. A fine portrait will also make a lasting and enduring gift for yourself, your family, and generations to come. Remember, there is no sales tax in Delaware. We offer a satisfaction guaranteed backed up with the skills, knowledge, experience, reputation, and credentials to provide you with a portrait you will love.
Custom printing, cropping, blinks, head swapping, retouching of: hair, glass glare, braces, blemishes, wrinkles, waistlines, necklines, clothing, etc. are available.
*Please call or schedule a visit to our studio gallery for specific pricing and samples of these fine pieces.*
The Ultimate Canvas Masterpiece
Experience the ultimate in handmade print finishing. This is truly one of the finest canvas products in the world. Your image becomes the masterpiece that it deserves. This unique wall portrait is hand finished meticulously with artwork to enhance your portrait and mounted tightly on a stretcher bar. About a dozen layers of acrylics, lacquers and oils give you the most depth, dimension and beauty so it looks almost like you are coming out of the wall. You will be justly proud of this investment of your family’s pictorial mural. It is indeed the heirloom to be admired for generations and will become more valuable each day. Museum quality and archivally rated for over 200 years! This is our BEST finish.
The Painters Portrait
The Painters Portrait is another one of our fine products! After the highest quality printing techniques, materials, and craftsmanship are used to create this portrait, the emulsion is carefully adhered to canvas and mounted for strength. During the printing process, your portrait is made to look like a fine painting more on the impressionistic style. Then a protective spray is then used to preserve the portrait. The depth and brilliance of the canvas makes it especially suited for hanging over the mantle or sofa in a living room or family room. This is a wonderful look to add to your collection of art.
Fine Art Paper
Fine Art Paper has a light, watercolor texture and delicate feel. Your image is printed on this acid-free matte paper with optical brighteners, with a protective coating and mounted to a board, creating a stunning Giclee print that will last for years to come. This is the most popular choice in finishes with less glare and reflections from light sources.
Fine Art Gallery Wrapped Canvas
Nothing shows off your artistic side quite like a Fine Art Gallery Wrapped Canvas. Printed on premium matte canvas and wrapped around a 1.5 inch stretcher bar with a protective coating. The extra depth stands out on a wall and you don’t need a frame with the second most popular choice of finishes.
The Basic Canvas
The Basic Canvas uses cutting-edge equipment, printing on the photographic paper with a lustre coating for protection, then bond the photographic prints to a canvas material. The tight weaved canvas is pressed into the print, giving it a beautiful, even texture and mounted. Plus, our team of experienced color technicians provide superb color management so that each and every print looks picture perfect. This is the most economical choice on a tighter budget.
The Color Collection
Printed on professional portrait paper, with a protective coating and mounted to a mat board to help protect it for generations. These usually include 8x10s and smaller. 8x10s and smaller are $250 each, Only $150 each when ordered the next morning after your portrait session.
The B&W Collection
Your color image can also be printed in monotones with professional grade paper using pleasing tones.
Photographic Album
Your images are printed on a professional photographic paper, mounted with a protective coating and permanently bound in a leather like album. Comes in 10 through 40 page sizes in increments of 2 (16, 22, 34 etc.).
- We specialize in professionally printed custom portraits and albums so you can look your best and enjoy them every day. We can also help you decide how to best display your images in your home using special software with pictures of your walls while you are in our studio seeing the samples.
Digital
Unlike other photographer’s quick “Edits”, each portrait and person is refined and touchup by the Master Photographer and Digital Portrait Artist so you look your natural best. Your portraits are processed, adjusted, toned and may include wrinkle reduction, slenderizing and body contouring.
Every digital order includes a FOREVER account, so your files land somewhere safe and stay yours.
Digital files are a premium add-on, not part of the reservation or session fee. Here's the simplest way to think about it. A printed portrait is finished artwork, made once, for one place on your wall. A digital file gives you reproduction, sharing, and display rights, so you can use that image many times and many ways. Because digital carries those broader rights, it's often the larger investment of the two.
Ways to add digital
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Business Portrait Headshot. $350, or $200 during our winter special, January through April. Each additional headshot at the same session is $150.
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Social-size digital image, sized for screens and sharing. $300 each. With a minimum of eight, each one comes with a print up to 5x7. The minimum is waived on any printed portrait order over $2,500.
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Medium-resolution digital, printable up to 8x10. $500 each. With a minimum of five, each includes a print up to 8x10. The minimum is waived on any printed portrait order over $2,500.
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One large, full high-resolution image, touched up, adjusted, and toned. $2,500, plus $1,000 for each additional individual family shown in the portrait.
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Bring your own camera or phone. We set up every pose and use your camera. $1,000 per hour. This may fall outside prime sunset time.
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For the digital purist Some clients want the original camera files to process themselves. We offer those too.
RAW original proof files, unadjusted, straight from our camera, all your favorites. Add $2,500 per session. One honest note here, and we share it because we'd want to know. These files are unedited starting points. Every finished portrait you've admired went through hours of retouching, toning, and calibration in Lightroom and Photoshop, often including expression swaps and fine detail work our digital artist does by hand. Handing off a RAW file is a bit like taking a chef's finest cut home to cook yourself. You can do it, but the result depends entirely on your own skill and tools. - With a $2500 or more printed portrait order, a screen size digital image of your ordered printed portraits are included in your Forever account.
- Finished digital image from each pose, at full resolution, touched up, adjusted, and toned, usually ten or more. Add $10,000 per hour/session. PLUS get PERMANENT FOREVER STORAGE that you can add your own personal images, photos, documents, videos & audio files. Back Up from your phone & Facebook. Scan and convert old photos too. Guaranteed for your Lifetime +100 Years!!!
- With a $10,000 or more printed portrait order, you qualify for a 8”x10” size digital image of your printed portraits. PLUS get PERMANENT FOREVER STORAGE that you can add your own personal images, photos, documents, videos & audio files. Back Up from your phone & Facebook. Scan and convert old photos too. Guaranteed for your Lifetime +100 Years!!!
FOREVER is the only online platform we trust for storing and sharing our own family photos. Carrie Rest Koster would be happy to help you get started with a free 2GB account here- https://bit.ly/New2Forever.
We are using top of the line Canon lenses and cameras along with a high powered flash to balance out the sunlight. A portrait lens compresses the depth to make you look better where as a wider angle lens make you look wider. Canon’s Sensor captures images with exceptional clarity and tonal range and offers the most pixels in its class. We start out with a large Megabyte RAW file that needs to be processed with Lightroom and Photoshop or some other image processing software. Our Digital Artist can slenderize, touch up, adjust and tone your portraits (Much more than just an "AI, edit or filter") . Sometimes we swap heads, faces, eyes, hair to make the image better. After we process and do all the art work on your images, our file sizes can be up to 500 MB each. We need high end computers, training and special software programs to manage and produce these high quality images. Our system is also calibrated with our printer to give you the optimal archival print. You could have your file printed at 100 different places and it would probably look different each time and not as well as ours. Digital flies of varying sizes may be purchased depending on your needs and uses. The finished printed portraits are our specialty and will proudly be passed down through the generations, especially as technology changes.
Restorations of old and damaged pictures
We copy the picture up to 8x10 and have a professional digital artist restore the image for $150. Then, printed on photographic archival paper, mounted with a protective coating on an 8x10 or smaller for $100. (Total for $250) Larger sizes and finishes are also available. Please give us a call if you want to schedule an appointment to bring it by the studio – 302- 226-9226 or send it into us.
Greeting Cards
Facebook Friend Special:
Please become a Fan of our Portraits In The Sand page. Click on the link Like Us on Facebook Then request us to post an image from your portrait session and become a friend of David Koster Photographer. Then you can share it with all of your friends after your purchase of a wall portrait. Please become a Fan and Friend before your session for a quicker posting. Thank you for your friendship.
SUPER SPECIAL
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$5000$2500 or more printed portrait order, you qualify for a screen size digital image of your ordered printed portraits in a Forever account. - -With a $10,000 or more portrait order, you qualify for a 8”x10” size digital image of your printed portraits in a Forever account.
Prices, products and availability are subject to change without notice.