Argh. The owner of the vacant house two doors down has been renovating
it so he can sell it. Two days ago he caught me leaning out the window
with the 400mm lens, and shouted up to ask a favour of me. He wanted
me to shoot the house for a web site. My automatic answer was, "Yeah,
I could do that." Half an hour later it finally occurred to me that
maybe, just maybe, I should have made a suggestion involving money.
Today was the shoot (I had to use the point-and-shoot for a few rooms
because I don't have a wide enough lens for the Pentax -- getting those
shots to not look jarringly different will be interesting). At the
end, he brought up the money. I felt like I'd already screwed up by
not raising the money issue at the beginning, and really am not sure
how much I should've been asking in the first place, so I told him to
figure out how much he thought the photos were worth to him when I give
them to him, and pay me that plus advertise me to folks I can charge
a more professional rate.
Someday -- sooome daaaay -- I may learn to let the business part of
my brain speak before the artist part.
In the meantime, any of y'all have any pointers for me as to what
someone might expecte to pay for a photographer to come in and
document a house for a sales brochure and a web site? Should I just
think in terms of "reasonable hourly rate" and keep track of how long
the editing takes me?
It's a rather pretty house, by the way. Where mine is a prime
candidate for restoration (if I ever win the lottery), his is a
good argument for renovation. Removing all the interior walls
on the ground floor really brightens up the kitchen and dining
room a lot (as well as, of course, making them feel more spacious),
and the funky geometry of these houses still suggests a sort of
demarkation between kitching/dining room and living room even
without the walls. On the second floor, sacrificing part of
one abnormally large bedroom to make space for a really fancy
bathroom works out; the amount of bedroom left would look like
an ordinary-size bedroom if I didn't know how large the same
room is in my house.
-- Glenn
-- Glenn
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