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Alicia, that sounds like a pretty slippery slope, to me. I wouldn't do it. I would explain that I am a portrait artist, not a photographer, and that I don't have the time or inclination to add another extraneous activity to my schedule. I would recommend, very sweetly, whatever professional photographers there are in the area. If you start doing straight photograpy you're going to be distracted by more and more requests for this sort of service and I think it will impact on your credibility as a portrait artist.
Thinking over my previous comments, I should probably have said that I don't give away photos, and I don't even make double copies of them, unless the client is a friend. That's a more business-like way of proceeding and it's what I was advised to do on another forum when this topic came up. It's a rule you can always break if the circumstances seem to warrant it, but otherwise I suspect you get a reputation for providing free photos along with the painting. This seems to trivialize the art, to some extent, and anyway that's not what I want to be known for.
And if you keep to that policy and only break it rarely you probably avoid situations like the one you're dealing with now. Photos should be viewed only as painting aids rather than as goods in and of themselves.
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