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08/30/2007 01:35:28 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by cryingdragon:
Last year, my daughter had pics taken. I got to see the proofs before buying the package, which wasn't too ungodly priced. The problem is...I never got the pictures. The school refuses to do anything about it. If I had the backgrounds and stuff, I'd do it myself.
Luckily, I didn't have to pay anything up front for it, aside from the cost of the pics that I did buy. |
Mike - here's an idea... get a couple of sheets, and you and the kids go to town with fabric paint and brushes (outside of course) and make some backdrops. Then build one of timfythetoo's ring light contraptions with parts from Home Depot. Have the kids help with that, too, as much as you'll let 'em. Then set up a "studio" in the living room or the garage - even outside in the evening. Start shooting. Have 'em pick outfits, make faces, do whatever. You'll have great pics and you'll all have a good time. And I wanna see the pictures when you're done, too. :-) |
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08/30/2007 02:25:58 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
IMO school photogs are in it for the money...500 head shots is not gonna be an outlet for creativity... |
I dont think youll find anyone denying this. I don't get up at 5:00am on a saturday morning (after working a 40 hour work week) to drive to a field while its 50 degrees out to spend 6 hours taking "portraits" of age 4-14 soccer players, all of which forgot to take their ritalin, in order to "perfect my art". |
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08/30/2007 08:29:07 PM · #28 |
Originally posted by Melethia:
Mike - here's an idea... get a couple of sheets, and you and the kids go to town with fabric paint and brushes (outside of course) and make some backdrops. Then build one of timfythetoo's ring light contraptions with parts from Home Depot. Have the kids help with that, too, as much as you'll let 'em. Then set up a "studio" in the living room or the garage - even outside in the evening. Start shooting. Have 'em pick outfits, make faces, do whatever. You'll have great pics and you'll all have a good time. And I wanna see the pictures when you're done, too. :-) |
Deb,
You have a deal. |
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08/30/2007 08:45:00 PM · #29 |
| Pick up your phone and call a school board memeber and talk to them. Thats kind of what they are there for. |
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08/30/2007 08:52:51 PM · #30 |
| Is it the school board that picks the photographers or the individual schools? |
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08/30/2007 09:15:05 PM · #31 |
Originally posted by cpanaioti:
Is it the school board that picks the photographers or the individual schools? |
The school board, usually. But private schools seem to pick whoever they want (even if they are a diocesan school) |
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08/30/2007 09:36:57 PM · #32 |
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
IMO school photogs are in it for the money...500 head shots is not gonna be an outlet for creativity... |
With the exception of Art Roflmao, School Photographer...
...for a day. :D |
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08/30/2007 09:46:36 PM · #33 |
Originally posted by Art Roflmao:
Originally posted by Prof_Fate:
IMO school photogs are in it for the money...500 head shots is not gonna be an outlet for creativity... |
With the exception of Art Roflmao, School Photographer...
...for a day. :D |
Man, you are warped... lol |
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08/30/2007 10:37:46 PM · #34 |
Originally posted by HawkeyeLonewolf:
...School contracted photographers are just getting worse and worse.
...I hope we here have more ethics than this. |
That's quite a lumping of people you're doing here. It may not be a "creative" job, but some of us are doing it because it can be fun. And some of us do the best job we possibly can with what we have to work with (squirming children who refuse to hold still or offer even a hint of a smile no matter how much you cajole). It can also be our foot in the door of "professional" photography and a great learning tool. There's not a lot of money in it for the photographers, so for those of us doing it, it's definitely not about the money. |
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09/01/2007 07:30:35 AM · #35 |
| Its all about the money when you get out from under a company and book your own jobs (figure you have the equipment, might as well book a couple of small day cares and stuff to get your own cashflow going and establish a name) |
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