I recently had a photo session with my toddler at a local studio and because it was a last minute thing, didn't find out the package rates in advance, which I would usually always do. The session charge itself was a nominal amount, but when I went back to view the images a couple of days later, I discover that to have the 35 or so images on disc would cost me £800 and £1,200 with a couple of framed prints. The photographer gave me the hard sell and said she would delete the photos if I didn't pay her a deposit to hold them. I don't know if I am being unreasonable, but I got married fairly recently and the photographer we used wasn't much more than this and he spent seven hours on site and we had a disc of approx 150 really nice edited photos. I find it hard to understand how a session with my toddler which lasted an hour and then time for editing 35 images could cost the same??? I loved the photos which the photographer took of my daughter, but I would have felt totally ripped off if I had gone ahead with the purchase. I've since checked out some other family photographer's websites and they all seem to charge the same. How can this be justified? I've decided to sign myself up for a three day intensive photography course and invest in some lighting to go with my DSLR and try to take some half decent images at different intervals.