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12/16/2008 10:59:26 PM · #26 |
1.) Don't ask for the CD back. Especially if you consider this a 'friendly' exchange. It will be very weird for both parties and the last thing you want is NEGATIVE word of mouth. This is purely my opinion, you can do whatever you wish. Obviously.
2.) Even 'friendly deals' among friends and ,yes, even family can fall through and lead to some nasty fights.This is why I originally suggested always giving a price before hand. If you don't like the results, you can always lower the price...but you can never go up.
3.) If you don't already know, soon you will find out that people will undervalue you everytime.
But you did get some awesome lighting on the subjects (besides the shadow) and the background was nice, crisp and bright. You will do fine.
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12/16/2008 11:51:41 PM · #27 |
Originally posted by egamble:
1.) Don't ask for the CD back. Especially if you consider this a 'friendly' exchange. It will be very weird for both parties and the last thing you want is NEGATIVE word of mouth. This is purely my opinion, you can do whatever you wish. Obviously.
2.) Even 'friendly deals' among friends and ,yes, even family can fall through and lead to some nasty fights.This is why I originally suggested always giving a price before hand. If you don't like the results, you can always lower the price...but you can never go up.
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Good call on the cd.. I'll just leave it be.
Otherwise, it's a friendly deal that, in my opinion can't really go wrong. I'm now planning on letting her offer me a price, and if it's really way too low then I'll probably slip in a gentle word. Otherwise, it was kind of like a test shoot for me and so therefore I'm not expecting much in terms of money.
What I do know so far is that the couple is extremely happy with the photos and that my colleague's boyfriend was initially reluctant to go to some amateur photographer's basement on saturday night to take couple photos - throw money into the whole thing beforehand and the whole thing probably wouldn't have actually happened.
I'll post the end of the story by the end of the week..
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12/20/2008 06:44:15 PM · #28 |
And there is a happy ending to this story after all:
After delivering the photos, it was finally time to talk money. I thought it would be a good idea to put the ball in her court by telling her to make an offer - but she bounced it right back at me by saying "your price is my price".. oof. As I didn't want to charge her too much, and I really had no idea what her expectations were money wise, I initially asked for $50. I got a big "That's it?!" and so we settled on $60. I know it wasn't much, but now I've got one extremely satisfied co-worker who has already shown her cousin the photos (potentially my next customer!). In fact, she's already asking me what my "real" prices are going to be (and she's fully aware that she got a ridiculous bargain). She really put me in a corner yesterday, trying to force me to give her a price because she now wants some outdoor portraits in the spring! All I could say was that I would get back to her about it as I wanted to go over the posts in the thread in greater detail (thanks to those who put up some numbers!).
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12/20/2008 11:10:59 PM · #29 |
I just did a shoot for a friend of mine who is also my stylist.
We are friends, but it came from a business relationship.
I took about an hour and a half shooting/travel time and spent probably 2.5-3 hours PP and printing.
I would have done it for $75 as it was my first time actually doing it for hire, and I wanted the experience from someone that was A. INCREDIBLY photogenic and comfortable with me. B. Knew that they'd have to pay me something for my time, efforts, and materials.
I told her I'd give her a reasonable price after we saw whether or not she liked what we got, and would be happy to reshoot once more if she didn't like the first batch. I told her if after a second shoot failed, no harm no foul, we'd just not do any more.
She was amenable, the first shoot worked out wonderfully, she LOVED ALL the images I offered, I held a nice one back, asked her if she was okay with $150 for 15 8x10s, she said she was fine with that.
I threw in two 8x10s of the one I held back and she was THRILLED.
One of the shots: [thumb]748798[/thumb]
Message edited by author 2008-12-20 23:42:31.
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