On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:36:35AM -0400, David J Brooks wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Cotty <[email protected]> wrote: > > >>So, lose one, win one.:-) > > > > Well done Dave - feels good when you finally decide on a course of > > action. Great that you got some work straight off the back. Best of luck > > with it. > > Funny thing is, these two jobs will pay about half of what i net in a > year at the horse shows.:-)
Over the years, I've been on the other side of event photography. It used to be that my friend John Blakemore would go out to SCCA events with his Nikon F, and the next month would have a bunch of 5x7s for sale. Actually, he'd have the last year's worth of events, sorted by event. He'd charge soemthing like $10 per print. I'd really only want one or two prints, but I'd offer him something like the cost of 3 for all the shots he got of me. More recently, Norm Cabana would go out to NASA (National Auto Sport Association) events, with his son etc. shooting with digital cameras. He'd charge something like $30 for a CD of the weekend. He'd also charge for prints. Since I was teaching with NASA, I was there at most of the events. One year I offered him $200 for a year's subscription. Basically, I paid him for a few events, and I got CDs for the full year. > > May have a new "side line " here. I expect that there are two types of customers at these events. People who don't have any, or many, shots of them competing, and who are willing to pay a fair amount to get some good shots. There are also the old timers who already have a lot of shots, but who might be willing to pay a little bit for a "subscription". With auto racing it's a bit different because for safety reasons, they don't want a lot of people where they can get hit by cars, which happen to be where you can get the best shots of the racing. I don't think that the hazards to spectators are nearly as great at horse or dog shows. > > Dave > > > > -- > > > > > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > > > > > ___/\__ > > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > > _____________________________ > > > > > > > > -- > > 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. > > > > > > -- > 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. -- The fastest way to get your question answered on the net is to post the wrong answer. Larry Colen [email protected] http://www.red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
