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 06/04/2006 09:55:14 PM · #51
30000 rupees is still too much, i think in india normally we pay around 10-15 000 rs. Thats it.

Originally posted by ignite:
Over here wedding photos cost like Rupees 30000-40000 ($500 or so) for really good stuff. Other big studios charge a lot more, and their photos are no different. What they offer is better albums, service, and more options. They have slightly better editing and presentation.
06/04/2006 10:40:09 PM · #52
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
I'm really seriously thinking about trying to put myself into the $5-$10G range. I mean why not? I'm just trying to figure out what I need to be doing to charge those types of pirces.


'cheesy' wedding shots maybe?
 06/04/2006 11:11:18 PM · #53
Wedding photography is no different than any other service business. It is a market driven economy. If you raise your rates, you narrow your market and each sale is harder to close. Essentially it becomes a trade-off: instead of being a photographer, you become a salesman. The key is to find the right balance of market/price/resistance and spending the most time on what you enjoy the most.

Many people say they can produce better results than your competitor who charges ten times more. If that is true and your competitor is making a good living working half as much, you may be a better photographer, but he/she is simply a much more successful businessperson.

As some in this thread have mentioned, what you charge has more to do with business and less to do with photography. I would also add that if the customer is happy with the price and the end product, why does anyone else care how much they paid?

06/04/2006 11:16:11 PM · #54
my wedding this past week, we payed the photog 4000, and i must say he was amazing, he was johny on the spot.
06/04/2006 11:21:23 PM · #55
Congrats on getting married! California does tend to be pricy so that sounds about right for around here. Sooo... where are the pics??? :0)

How did you decide on this guy- does he have a website that helped in your decision?
 06/04/2006 11:33:28 PM · #56
Originally posted by TroyMosley:
my wedding this past week, we payed the photog 4000, and i must say he was amazing, he was johny on the spot.

When you say "we payed" - who do you mean, specifically? ;-)
 06/05/2006 12:39:11 AM · #57
myself i payed 1000 and her aunt payed the other 3000

as far as the pic, we dont get rights until 1 year after the date, and proofs wont be available until 4-6 weeks,


06/05/2006 12:49:43 AM · #58
To answer the first question, how good do you have to be to charge $10,000 plus?

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 06/05/2006 12:54:15 AM · #59
Originally posted by wavelength:
To answer the first question, how good do you have to be to charge $10,000 plus?

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Good enough to sell yourself despite your seizure-inducing slideshows?
 06/05/2006 12:54:45 AM · #60
Originally posted by mk:
Originally posted by wavelength:
To answer the first question, how good do you have to be to charge $10,000 plus?

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Good enough to sell yourself despite your seizure-inducing slideshows?


;-D

Yeah, turn the music off too.

But hey, somehow people fly him across the country to take their pictures. Must me doing something right.

Message edited by author 2006-06-05 00:56:36.
 06/05/2006 01:43:25 AM · #61
For 875k, I better have Annie Lebovitz! LOL
 06/05/2006 02:08:40 AM · #62
Originally posted by sammigurl:
For 875k, I better have Annie Lebovitz! LOL

Yeah, and a couple of Ferrari F430s too! :)
 06/05/2006 03:35:45 AM · #63
Originally posted by wavelength:
To answer the first question, how good do you have to be to charge $10,000 plus?

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That dude's EXCEPTIONALLY good, IMO. I can see why he gets the big bucks. These are powerful & moving images that convey a distinctive artistic personality.

Robt.
 06/05/2006 05:32:45 AM · #64
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Originally posted by wavelength:
To answer the first question, how good do you have to be to charge $10,000 plus?

This Good warning, bandwidth intensive


That dude's EXCEPTIONALLY good, IMO. I can see why he gets the big bucks. These are powerful & moving images that convey a distinctive artistic personality.

Robt.

and it looks like he has some friends ;-)
 06/05/2006 05:59:14 AM · #65
To charge alot for wedding photography you must master the art of self promotion. Make people think you are the best in the world. And act like you are, but be nice about it. If people like you they'll like your pictures. They dont even have to be that good. O ya and another thing, alot of photographers make thier portfolios to impress other photographers. Be smart and make one to impress the bride. Geuss what she dosn't even know what over exposure is.

That is how you charge 10,000 for a wedding.

Message edited by author 2006-06-05 06:01:19.
 06/05/2006 01:26:47 PM · #66
No wonder some people elope! My baby brother has asked me to take photos at his wedding next year in NZ. Mmm, I should charge him then!! :-0
 06/05/2006 03:05:14 PM · #67
Originally posted by heatherd:
No wonder some people elope! My baby brother has asked me to take photos at his wedding next year in NZ. Mmm, I should charge him then!! :-0


I shot my brother's wedding for free, but I did make him and the bride sign model releases... figure I could at least have some good stock photos out of the deal... LOL
 06/05/2006 08:50:18 PM · #68
My wife and I have owned and operated a bartending service for 13 years now and some of our main income is from weddings. Some of the prices for these photogs are mind boggling. But, whats more mind boggling is the amount of money people toss around for their weddings. I've tended weddings that have ran well over $500,000. I've long considered cashing in on the photog end with all of my contacts I have built over the years but, just really don't relish the thought of dealing with Bridezilla. I have heard so many horror stories that I just don't know if it's worth it. Although it could be myths spread by local photogs to keep the competition down.
 06/05/2006 09:00:49 PM · #69
well, i work for a wedding photog company, they shoot over 400 weddings year at 3500-4000 a wedding and they print and make their own books in their office,

you figure they pay the two photogs 500-600 bucks beetween the two of them and the rest is mostly profit other then time and a little money to print and make the books,

and its a family owned and operated so their making a pretty penny.

*gotta go to a bbq*
 06/12/2006 01:31:26 AM · #70
850,000 dollars?

Your F***ing kidding me. His pictures suck. Non creative, boring headlevel shots for most of them. A few are fine, but not 850,000 worth of fine. They don't look like anything that a relative couldn't take with a nice point and shoot. The guy with the video on his webpage that charges $10,000 is an amazing weeding photographer in comparison. And the ballpoint pen valued at 69 cents-this site has to be a joke. Not professional looking at all. Oh yeah and check out his backpacking japan photos-they blow too. My backpacking photos from before I majored in photography looked way better.
 06/12/2006 01:49:20 AM · #71
Originally posted by Care Bear:
850,000 dollars?

Your F***ing kidding me. His pictures suck. Non creative, boring headlevel shots for most of them. A few are fine, but not 850,000 worth of fine. They don't look like anything that a relative couldn't take with a nice point and shoot. The guy with the video on his webpage that charges $10,000 is an amazing weeding photographer in comparison. And the ballpoint pen valued at 69 cents-this site has to be a joke. Not professional looking at all. Oh yeah and check out his backpacking japan photos-they blow too. My backpacking photos from before I major ed in photography looked way better.


I think his wedding photography part of the site is a spoof. he doesn't want to do weddings (unless someone is crazy enough to pay the $$)
 06/23/2006 10:18:26 PM · #72
Ya'll are too nice...and I certainly don't think I deserve the amount that they pay because I feel very blessed to get paid anything for what I do.

So just know that there is a lot of money out there and tons of people willing to pay it so I'd suggest focusing a lot of time and energy on people and relationships because I'm convinced that it's those intagibles that allow photographers to charge high fees - not their photography. I'm living proof. My photos aren't out of this world and I know that but I'm able to charge lots because of my reputation for treating people well and delivering a consistent product.

All my best,
DJ
 06/23/2006 10:19:54 PM · #73
Ha! thanks for joining our discussion, David. Most of us use discussions like this as inspiration and I hope you understand it that way. You do lovely work.
 06/23/2006 10:30:46 PM · #74
DJ, really cool of you to stop by. Your work is awesome, man. Thanks for stopping by and sharing some inspiration with us.

And, please feel free to drop in some times.
 06/23/2006 10:38:02 PM · #75
Consistent work is important. And good customer service, whatever that is in teh customer's mind.

I had the good fortune to attend a (lecture/seminar/talk) by Andy Marcus and he gets $40,000 and up for weddings, but you get more than one guy with a 20D for that price. His clientele are probably spending the same percentage on their photography as the couple that spends $1000. he showed pictures of $30,000 cakes and one wedding had a tent on the lawn - for 800 guests. The bill for the tent and A/C for the tent was over $300,000.

Can i get that much? No. He did Neil Diamond's son/daughter ( i forget) wedding. I don't exactly get referred to that type of client.

Start cheap, get experience and move up the pricing a bit every year until business slows, and then stop.
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