On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:46 PM, frank theriault
<knarftheria...@gmail.com> 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
I'm a n00b so I can't comment on the pricing question.
But I do have this to ask: why should a person choose your
"individualized" type of service instead of the "Dave Brooks" model?
It sounds like it would:
- cost more
- requires client to seek you out and commit to your services
- be riskier for the client (how do they know if they'll be satisfied?)
I can see someone might choose your type of service if they really
wanted top/premium results because you are guaranteeing to focus
solely on the 1 person.
But I think you may have a hard time getting clients because you are
really just starting out in this business.
It might be easier to start out on the Dave Brooks model and then as
you build up clients and portfolio migrate to the, Premium Knarf
Model.
Hopefully I sound like only the 2nd largest donkey instead of the 1st
largest one. :-)
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Sam
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