Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/12/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]LOL - our gourmet market is always 'swamped' with the work of a local photographer. Too bad his work isn't 'gourmet'. Oversize badly ink jet printed closeups of cows sheep and children. Oversaturated colors too.. Ick. I Eric On 12/18/06, Tina Manley <images@infoave.net> wrote: > > At 05:19 PM 12/18/2006, you wrote: > >When I take pictures of my mother, I seat her near a window and use > >the M6 and a couple of reflectors. And I don't charge. > > > >Brian Reid > > And I'm sure those are your best photos. The trick is that you need > to raise your prices. You are now a natural light, "art" > photographer. You can charge twice to four times as much as those > portrait photographers who use lights and flash. Make some very nice > prints of the natural window light photos for advertising and label > them as "natural light". Charge at least twice as much for natural > light as you do for artificial light. Put up some advertisements in > gourmet supermarkets. Clear your calendar to be swamped with orders. > > You'll be overwhelmed. > > Tina > > Tina Manley, ASMP, NPPA > http://www.tinamanley.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >