I'm unsure of the correct spot to put this so I'm sorry if it shouldn't belong here.

As a xmas gift to the grandparents this year we are planning on getting a family portraight + some individual ones as well and looking for some recomendations of where to go. Or even the best way to find someone, looking for a more natural shoot as opposed to the super soft shopping centre sorts.

Quite happy to spend up to ~$1k for the shoot a couple of prints and hopefully the disc with the hi-res shots on it. But am also very unsure of prices and practices as we have never looked into this kind of thing before. Am I even in the ballpark price wise? do the pro's give out their shots on disc as part of the shoots at all?

Any other advice on the subject that people think is relevant would be great too.

Cheers

Simon