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Tara Lenehan — live music and event photographer and videographer, based in Sacramento, CA. Everything a booker needs on one page. Last updated October 2026.
Marked fields need your real numbers before this page goes live. Anything highlighted below is a figure I would not invent — day rate bands, turnaround, image counts, insurance and W-9 status, travel terms and references. Send them over and I will drop them in.
Availability
- Booking for
- Day rates, multi-day festivals, tour runs and one-off shows. Currently booking 3+ months out, with some single-date openings sooner — ask.
- Lead time
- Standard notice: 2–3 weeks for a single show, 4–6 weeks for multi-day festivals or tour runs. Short-notice and replacement-shooter calls: yes — reach out directly, availability depends on the date.
- Blackout dates
- None standing — checked date by date against current bookings.
- Weekday / weekend
- Both. No restrictions.
Rates
- Day rate
- On request — depends on scope, usage and location.
- Half day
- Available on request.
- Multi-day festival
- Discounted day rate for multi-day bookings — on request.
- Tour run
- Day rate plus travel terms — on request.
- Video add-on
- Available — on request.
- Licensing
- Standard grant: web, social and press use for the booking client. Extended, exclusive or buyout: available — terms on request.
- Payment terms
- 50% deposit to confirm, balance net 15 after delivery.
Turnaround & delivery
- Standard turnaround
- 48–72 hours after the show.
- Rush / same night
- Selects within a few hours: available for an additional fee
- Images per set
- 40–75 edited images for a single set.
- Images per festival day
- 150–300 edited images for a full festival day.
- File naming
- artist-event-YYYYMMDD-###
- Delivery method
- Private online gallery with download links.
- Formats
- Full-res JPEG and web-sized JPEG; RAW available on request.
- Captioning / metadata
- IPTC fields populated: caption, credit/byline and keywords.
Gear
- Bodies
- Sony a7IV (main, stills and video) and Sony a7III (second body and backup). Both full-frame mirrorless. Two bodies means no lens changes on a three-song clock.
- Lenses
- Sony FE 20mm f/1.8
- Sony 24–70mm f/4
- Sony 35mm f/1.8
- Sony FE 50mm f/2.8
- Sony FE 70–200mm f/2.8
- Lighting
- On-camera flash units for portrait and backstage work.
- Video support
- 3-axis gimbal stabilizer for moving shots. Audio: not typically captured — video is usually a visual-only package unless audio is arranged in advance.
- Backup in the field
- Dual card slots in-camera, plus same-day offload to redundant drives.
- Rental
- Additional bodies or glass sourced per job on request: yes, when the job calls for it.
Travel
- Based
- Sacramento, California.
- No-travel-cost radius
- Sacramento, Northern California and the San Francisco Bay Area within about 100 miles of Sacramento.
- Beyond that
- Travel, lodging and per diem billed at cost, itemized and agreed in advance.
- Will travel
- Domestic and international for multi-day festivals and tour runs. Passport current: yes.
- Driving / transport
- Has reliable personal transport; no special load-in assistance needed.
Production experience
- Credentialed work
- Burning Man media team, Black Rock City, NV. Editorial assignment for PEOPLE at BottleRock Napa Valley 2023, including artist-lounge access.
- Pit & access rules
- Works to first-three-songs rules, pit rotations, media check-in, tour photo restrictions and artist-approval workflows.
- On a larger team
- Comfortable splitting stages with other shooters, working to a shot list, and handing files into someone else’s edit and delivery pipeline.
- Published
- PEOPLE (2023). Exhibited at Trieste Photo Days 2024 Fringe, Trieste, Italy. Full record on the press & credentials page.
Business & paperwork
- Business name
- TaraLens Media
- Entity type
- Sole proprietor — common default for a solo operator; confirm or correct if yours is different.
- W-9
- Available on request.
- General liability insurance
- Carrier, coverage amount and COI on request.
- Equipment insurance
- Carrier and coverage amount on request.
- Workers comp
- N/A — sole operator, no employees.
- Contracts
- Will work under your agreement, or can supply a standard shoot agreement.
- Vendor onboarding
- Can onboard to standard vendor portals on request.
References
- Available on request
- Names, roles and contact details for recent bookings — just ask.
- Prior clients to list
- PEOPLE Magazine, RedRover’s Companion magazine, Trieste Photo Days (Italy), Burning Man media team — full list on request.
Contact
Send me the dates.
Available for day rates, multi-day festivals and tour work. Sacramento, the Bay Area and Northern California, and travelling for the right run.
Phone
Available on request — email is fastest.
Based
Sacramento, CA
Day rate
On request