[Leica] help - what do I charge for a shoot??

[leica_korenman at hotmail.com (eric)]

Lea-

Thanks so much for the help.
Will let you (all) know how it goes.

Eric


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lea" <lea@whinydogpress.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] help - what do I charge for a shoot??


> Eric,
> 
> I forgot to mention that I don't shoot a set amount of time...I shoot to
> the tolerance of the child; many of my subjects are quite young and I go
> by their mood, not mine. I do find it best to get in and get going...I
> have my lens attached to my camera, media card/ film loaded and
> everything ready to go sitting in my camera bag. Often my best shots are
> the first few of a sitting. Then again, sometimes the best ones come
> after an hour of getting to know the child and playing with him/her. It
> really depends on the subject.
> 
> I don't promise a set time, a set amount of proofs, a set anything other
> than that I will show up, do my darndest and give them good results. If
> I didn't get anything good, I do a reshoot. I've only had to do this
> once or twice and while it seems like a drag it really is good business
> and it always makes me feel better when I KNOW I did a good job. And of
> course the client likes that, too.
> 
> Lea
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "eric" <leica_korenman@hotmail.com>
> To: "LUG" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 8:59 PM
> Subject: [Leica] help - what do I charge for a shoot??
> 
> 
> > I have been shooting pics of friends and their kids for a year or so.
> > People who have seen my work at friends' houses are asking me shoot
> pics for
> > them.
> > I am now being asked 'What do you charge?'.
> >
> > Well - what do I charge? For friends I have been gifting most prints,
> and
> > charging my cost for reprints.
> >
> > What is a reasonable fee?
> > Do I charge a base rate for a set number of hours or rolls of film?
> > Then charge for reprints?
> >
> > thanks
> > Eric
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