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 does
On 10/26/2011 12:46 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
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
On Wed, 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
I have no idea what you should charge for something like that. However
if prints are included in the fee you have to make sure that you cover
that cost.
The biggest problem I see is marketing. You have to let people know
that you're available for that kind of work.
The second biggest probl
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Sam L wrote:
> I'm a n00b so I can't comment on the pricing question.
I'm a noob (at this) as well, that's why I'm asking the list to share
their expertise with me.
;-)
>
> But I do have this to ask: why should a person choose your
> "individualized" type of s
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> I'd guess that $200 to shoot a game would be a bit closer to "beer money"
> than "making a living". You could do something like $200 for the first kid,
> $100 for the second, $75 for each up to 5 and $1000 for the team.
Given my experience
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
> 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
> the
BTW, a combination of a low fee and modest print prices seemed to be the only
method that really produced results when it came to shooting kids. There's a
lot of competition out there. And I found that the idea that the first $100
worth of prints were already paid for resulted in a larger total
Hi Frank - I can't give you any advice on price, but there is one
thing you might check out.
Some leagues have a contract with a photographer that will grant
exclusive rights to any photography sales. You'll never see the guy
until he hears that you're selling pictures, then he'll pop up from
the
On 26/10/11, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:
>Thanks in advance for your input!!
I think that the hardest work you will do - and that will demand the
most talent - is selling yourself and your abilities to provide what
most people think they can do themselves.
My advice would be to
On Wed, 26 Oct 2011 15:46:36 -0400
frank theriault wrote:
> 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.
Front $75-100 an hour for shooting and doing the basic processing for no
more than the
Frank,
I just had one of my crazy ideas. I was thinking about the fact that you
are competing against the parents that are there anyways, have DSLRs and
take the photos for free. A lot of these parents have never owned a
"serious" camera before, and I bet most of them have never even been
ta
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
> Frank,
>
> I just had one of my crazy ideas. I was thinking about the fact that you are
> competing against the parents that are there anyways, have DSLRs and take
> the photos for free. A lot of these parents have never owned a "serious"
> ca
Frank. The big many is or at least was hockey tournaments. There the
big boys show up and shoot all weekend long and sell on site and make
a small fortune. Now, that's just the tournament, during regular
games, my hockey Dad associates tell me there usually is no one
shooting.
Try that venue may pr
that point, I'll be anxious to hear what you are
considering as a fee
Best,
Jack.
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I'm in the process of
From: frank theriault
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, concentrat
From: Sam L
On Wed, 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 h
On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:00 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> From: Sam L
>> On Wed, 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
>
On 11-10-26 3:46 PM, frank theriault wrote:
I'm in the process of starting a part time photography business.
[...]
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
That's a fine portfolio, Bruce. What kind of reaction have you been
getting from prospective customers?
Dan
Dan Matyola
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
> On 11-10-26 3:46 PM, frank theriault wrote:
>>
>> I'm in the process
So you specialize in woman's portraits
On 10/27/2011 10:50 AM, Bruce Walker wrote:
On 11-10-26 3:46 PM, frank theriault wrote:
I'm in the process of starting a part time photography business.
[...]
I will be able to show the baseball pix I took this summer along with
a few other events in m
On 26/10/2011 21:46, frank theriault wrote:
I'm in the process of starting a part time photography business.
I can't answer your specific questions for numerous reasons. But my
first thought was "equipment". Duplicate body and lenses, plus a hefty
computer/storage system seem to be de rigeu
Wed Oct 26 19:52:19 EDT 2011
Cotty wrote:
> On 26/10/11, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:
> >Thanks in advance for your input!!
<..>
> When I started out, I pitched myself where I thought companies could
> afford - which didn't seem too cheap, nor too expensive. I was wrong.
> The
On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
>
>
> Wed Oct 26 19:52:19 EDT 2011
> Cotty wrote:
>
>> On 26/10/11, frank theriault, discombobulated, unleashed:
>
>>> Thanks in advance for your input!!
>
> <..>
>
>> When I started out, I pitched myself where I thought companies could
>> a
On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, parents of little league ballplayers don't think of it in the
> same financial terms as a wedding. You can't price this kind of photography
> based on what you might think your time is worth. You have to base it on what
>
On Oct 27, 2011, at 8:11 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
>
>>
>> Unfortunately, parents of little league ballplayers don't think of it in the
>> same financial terms as a wedding. You can't price this kind of photography
>> based on what you mig
Thanks, Dan! It's not a formal portfolio though. I just selected all the
portrait and related shots from my 500px stream and made this to test
the portfolio feature of 500px. I'm evaluating whether I'm going to fork
over actual money to them for so-called "Awesome" features.
I haven't been sho
Seems to be a niche I really enjoy. I've also done male portraits, pet
portraits and lots of other stuff like classic car detail, flower macros
(well, who hasn't?), etc. But I seem to be drawn to the unique
challenges in photographing people, in particular women, so I keep
returning to it.
-b
Wow! that was interesting to read, Stan. Thanks for sharing that. Cheers,
Christine
On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:59 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:
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> On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:03 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Wed Oct 26 19:52:19 EDT 2011
>> Cotty wrote:
>>
>>> On 26/10/11, frank theriault, discomb
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