i sometimes do jobs like that, or at least I used to -- not much time these days. I charged $100 up front but applied all of that toward the purchase of pictures. In other words, if the customer bought $100 worth of prints, then there was no session fee. I charged $25 for 12 x 18 prints, $15 for 8 x 12s and $10 for 5 x 7s. Most of my customers seemed to like that arrangement.
Paul On Oct 26, 2011, at 3:46 PM, frank theriault wrote: > I'm in the process of starting a part time photography business. > Here's the idea: > > You've got a kid in Little League baseball, minor league hockey, high > school football, soccer, whatever. For a fee, I show up with cameras > in hand and take hundreds of game photos, concentrating on your kid. > It doesn't have to be your kid, it can be anyone you want to pay me to > photograph. > > Then I take the best of them, we look through the proofs and you > choose which ones you want have prints made of. > > I guess it would be a bit like what Dave Brooks used to do at horsie > shows except rather than take the photos and try to sell them, I'd be > paid in advance to take the pix (my fee would include one free 8x10, > after that you'd pay per print - I'd say my retail plus 50% is > realistic, but I wouldn't tell the clients that). > > I've done a bit of research and no one else in town provides this > exact service, near as I can tell. There are guys and gals doing > sports photography, but they'll do a whole team and charge like $2000. > Or, they'll do something similar to Dave where they shoot an event, > post the pix and parents are invited to look online and order the > prints which are then mailed to them by some printing service in the > USA. > > So, this would be a more individualized and customized arrangement, > where I'd concentrate on a single player over the course of an event > so the person(s) who hired me could choose from hundreds of photos. > > My question is: What does anyone think I should charge for that one > time (up front!) fee? I'm just starting out, so I can't go too high, > but I also don't want to look like some amateur hack by underpricing. > I will be able to show the baseball pix I took this summer along with > a few other events in my on-line ad, but I don't have a web site so > I'm not going to look terribly professional as it is. If this thing > goes well, a more professional presentation will be invested in. > > I won't tell anyone what I'm thinking my fee range is just yet, so as > not to skew answers. I'll be most interested to hear what you have to > say. > > Thanks in advance for your input!! > > cheers, > frank > > -- > "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson > > -- > 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. -- 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.
