This will be the most frustrating photography you'll engage in in your life. Pets make children look like a walk in the park. Charge twice that and guarantee a free re-shoot, (after the pet calms down), if none of the pictures are good enough, Quite often they won't be.
David J Brooks wrote: > 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 > > > > -- Vote for Cthulhu. Why settle for a lesser evil... -- Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- 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.
