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02/24/2009 09:15:34 AM · #1 |
I spend most of my time in front, not behind, the camera at a wedding since I perform the services. However, there are people looking for English speaking photographers etc. to do there weddings at a level they would get back home. My prices are matched with those at other companies, only I spend more than a week on the album.
Anyways, I have done just a handful of weddings since I get paid more doing the actual services. However, a friend of a friend wants a foreign photographer in Japan to do her wedding. It will be a Shinto style wedding done at a shrine. I have never done the photography for a shinto wedding and although I've been invited many times to weddings, I've only been to one (Yawn)...
Would you drop the price for a wedding style you've never done before, to either 'warn' the person that your photos may not be like others' or to simply have the opportunity to get something like this in your portfolio? |
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02/24/2009 10:13:05 AM · #2 |
| Have confidence and do some homework. Charge the going rate - at the very least. You're a foreigner, in demand. You know which end of the camera to look through? Sure you do. Just go for it and go prepared. Take the leap from being an entrepreneur and become a pro. |
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02/24/2009 10:24:04 AM · #3 |
I don't do weddings... but I don't think dropping a price for what you state is a good idea... believe in what you can do and charge based on what you would otherwise.
Now IF I really wanted the images for my portfolio then I might.... I would only do that for a few reasons... like if the couple were pretty and it shows on the images (yeah politically incorrect but look in the mirror and say you don't think of that either) and or if there is market in Shinto weddings that I wanted to get into or the couple/parents/guests gave me defined access to referrals/jobs that would be profitable or alike.
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