Image Usage
I keep the copyright
I'm the photographer, so the copyright to every image stays with me. When your session is paid for, you receive a license to use your delivered images as described here.
What's included
You can use your delivered images for personal and self-promotional use: your website, your social media, your portfolio or profile, and prints for yourself. Models can also share them with agencies and anyone considering booking them.
What needs its own agreement
Paid advertising, selling the images or products featuring them, licensing them to someone else, and use for another person's or company's business aren't included. If you'd like to use an image that way, just ask. I'll put together an extended license, and the fee depends on where the image will run, for how long, and how widely.
Edits
Cropping and resizing for posting are fine. Please don't apply heavy edits, filters or AI changes to the images, since they're meant to look the way I delivered them.
Credit
A credit like "Photo by Athena Underground" is always appreciated and never required.
My use
I may show the images in my portfolio, on my website and on social media.
Brand and commercial clients
Usage for brand and commercial clients is set in your contract and pricing.