Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/02/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug: In this area (central California), the going rate for commercially produced team photos is $13. This is a single 8 x 10 color print. A package that includes the 8 x 10 and 8 wallet sized pictures of your child is $20. They usually arrange the photo so that it is static (and I think they purposely try to get the tree in the background to appear to grow out of the subject's head). I don't know what the productions costs are because the folks that specialize in this type of work have a lot of economies of scale going for them. While I could care less about cheapening the market and impinging on the territory of "professional" photographers, you are apparently sensitive to this issue. If you really don't need a profit, you might consider setting up sales somehow so that your expenses are paid and any profit is a donation to the fund raising activities of the track team. This would probably get you out of a lot of requests for freebies and favors. If you can shift your thinking so that you mentally think of yourself as the team's promotion and public relations photographer, you will probably solve a lot of "what to do" questions for yourself. Regards, Bill Larsen ohlen@lightspeed.net