Methodology

Each city chapter describes publicly displayed photography packages in one metro market, collected and read the same way: Google Maps and web discovery, the studio's own package pages, prices kept only when they appear next to what the package includes. Prices differ by scope, inclusions, units and starting-at qualifications. Every chapter shows its own sample counts and comparison limits, and small samples should be read cautiously. Each city is its own sample; comparing cities compares advertised medians, not the cost of identical work.

Studios are anonymized and never ranked. These are the packages studios advertise, not what clients were invoiced, and nothing here recommends a price.

“How we read this”, city by city

Citing this data

You are welcome to quote these figures with credit and a link to the page they came from. Please keep the count next to any number you quote, since every figure rests on a stated number of studios or packages.

Improve Photography Data Drop (2026). Advertised photography package prices, read package by package. https://improvephotography.com/data/

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