My wife works in a Pet Valu food store, and takes in my meager photos of our cats and friends dogs as part of their monthly specials and to help in adding extra photo work my way.
I have heard a lot of good comments from these photos, and some of their customers have new dogs and cats and have inquired if i would be available to do a shoot. Of course i am, they just have to get dates organized etc, but i;'m at odds for rates. Just recently in the Toronto Star newspaper, they had a 1/2 page article on a couple of pet photographers scattered around Canada, Toronto, Vancouver and another city i forget. These people were charging upwards of $1400 for the sitting and CD. One was a very experienced person, the other two just getting in to it. I have no intention of charging these rate, but i feel a shoot at a place both owner and animal are comfortabel with, own home, local park etc would be best. Try some posed shots, follow the animal around and grab the animal doing its thing candids. Not sure if i explained that well, but hopefully YKWIM. Travel would be minimal, we are still a small town, but i feel it would be appropriate for my experience, and sense of fair play, that a rate of $50-60 for an hour shoot, and put a CD together add another $50-60 for time, PS work, maybe a bit more for a musical slideshow etc.. Am i in the ball park out am i way out of line to start off Dave -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
