One thing I've done a couple of times, which worked out very well, was what I call a portrait party, where you get a group of friends together, and do portrait sessions with each of them. It ends up with a lot less down time when nobody is being photographed, set up time is shared among four or five people, and the net result is that I can charge a lot less per person. One big advantage of it is that it is a lot of fun, people have their friends there, and you get a lot more "honestly happy smiles" rather than the forced "smile for the camera" grimaces.
I've had a few people ask me about photographing kids lately. I've only photographed kids a couple of times, just enough to understand how much more difficult it can be. The first problem is that you only have a few minutes before their good mood is used up. What follows is a very blue sky idea, not worked out at all, but I think it has promise, and I'd love feedback from people with more experience on the subject than I. I wonder how it would work to do a portrait party for kids. Have snacks, toys, games etc for the kids that aren't in front of the camera. Do everything possible to make it a fun afternoon, with the photography being part of the fun. Possibly even having costumes and props to get kids hamming it up, and maybe even challenge kids off camera to make the kids on camera smile and laugh. It's quite possible that since each kid would be in front of the camera for just a short period of time, I could likely even do one of these for something like 8-12 kids, and not have to charge lots of money per kid. Thoughts? Suggestions? Simply pointing out that I'm completely out of my skull crazy? -- Larry Colen l...@red4est.com sent from i4est -- 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.
