Glenn, perception is reality. If you think your photos are not worth much, then whoever buys them will think they are crap. Sell a print for $50.00, the perception is it's worth nothing; sell it for $1000 and the perception is that it is fine art. (granted, the photo must be good) Norm
D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote: > Argh. The owner of the vacant house two doors down has been renovating > it so he can sell it. Two days ago he caught me leaning out the window > with the 400mm lens, and shouted up to ask a favour of me. He wanted > me to shoot the house for a web site. My automatic answer was, "Yeah, > I could do that." Half an hour later it finally occurred to me that > maybe, just maybe, I should have made a suggestion involving money. > > > Today was the shoot (I had to use the point-and-shoot for a few rooms > because I don't have a wide enough lens for the Pentax -- getting those > shots to not look jarringly different will be interesting). At the > end, he brought up the money. I felt like I'd already screwed up by > not raising the money issue at the beginning, and really am not sure > how much I should've been asking in the first place, so I told him to > figure out how much he thought the photos were worth to him when I give > them to him, and pay me that plus advertise me to folks I can charge > a more professional rate. > > Someday -- sooome daaaay -- I may learn to let the business part of > my brain speak before the artist part. > > In the meantime, any of y'all have any pointers for me as to what > someone might expecte to pay for a photographer to come in and > document a house for a sales brochure and a web site? Should I just > think in terms of "reasonable hourly rate" and keep track of how long > the editing takes me? > > It's a rather pretty house, by the way. Where mine is a prime > candidate for restoration (if I ever win the lottery), his is a > good argument for renovation. Removing all the interior walls > on the ground floor really brightens up the kitchen and dining > room a lot (as well as, of course, making them feel more spacious), > and the funky geometry of these houses still suggests a sort of > demarkation between kitching/dining room and living room even > without the walls. On the second floor, sacrificing part of > one abnormally large bedroom to make space for a really fancy > bathroom works out; the amount of bedroom left would look like > an ordinary-size bedroom if I didn't know how large the same > room is in my house. > > -- Glenn > > -- Glenn > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
