Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Ten grand weddings
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 19:19:19 -0700
References: <B614EC66.3A9%michaeljohnston@ameritech.net>

Mike Johnston wrote:
> 
> > I say 10 grand now for weddings for a few years now.
> 
> Francesco Scavullo charges (charged?) $30,000, but he didn't accept many. I
> only know two people who charge $10,000 or more. It takes a lot of work to
> position yourself at that point in the market.
> 
> --Mike

Thanks Mike! Glad to have you back! Things were getting boring around here!
I really am hoping to not do more weddings. And what I'd give them for 10 grand.
But charging what i thought in the past were astronomical prices never worked.
My first wedding I did for $40 bucks when in college in the mid 70's. I thought
I have over charged, hell the film and processing cost half that much!
That said at the color rental lab the other day a large bride was coming out of
the machine, a 24x30 C print.
The photographer had printed his own print.
He told me she was wearing a wedding dress which cost her dad something like $30,000.
A Rancher from Eastern Oregon.
He had spent much money do deal with her facial deformities. $300,000 perhaps.
So that was supposedly the a reason behind the expenditure of the dress.
Yes, sick and sad beyond belief!
	so it goes!
mark rabiner

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