I work for a photography studio in Kansas and this is the way we do all of our weddings. We have "wedding packages" that provide the customer with a variety of options that include, among other things, a specified amount of our time (i.e. wedding coverage) and two proof books with negatives. They are basically paying us for our time and the end product. What they do with it afterward is their business. We have been paid before we ever expose the first frame. No hassle. We don't have to track negatives for years, or handle reprint orders, or be pigeonholed into shooting certain "album" shots. We have more freedom to create an artistic representation of their day and our clients are free to arrange and present the images in a way that pleases them. We probably don't make as much money as we would if we did the reprints and albums. But our customers are very happy and we have less stress and less work, more time to ourselves and more creative freedom. And if you saw our prices you would think we are anything but "Budget Wedding Photography". In fact our clientele seems to be becoming more discriminating each year......
Glen -----Original Message----- From: gfen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 2:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: Others with NO interest in digital? On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Mark Roberts wrote: > Would you mind revealing what kind of rate you charge on an hourly > basis? (Feel free to answer by private email if you don't want to > broadcast it, or tell me to piss of if it's none of my business! > Perhaps I should rephrase it as "What should *I* charge per hour, not > having your experience?) You know, I'd love to hear this, as well.. I don't pretend, want, or desire to do this for a living, but people keep asking me, and if that's going to be the case, I'm going to make them pay. Especially in a way that I'm invisioning, which is to take some pictures, then hand them some film, and walk away. Budget wedding photog. -- http://www.infotainment.org "The destructive character is cheerful." - Walter Benjamin
