RangerPooh
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 6, 2005
A few years back we did wedding photography and found it to be a headache. While we love photography and enjoyed shooting the couples special day, it became frustrating. Brides were reading budget forums that said to bargain the photographer and to get 8 hours of coverage plus an album, all images on disk, and proof images for dirt cheap.
While I agree to have a variety of price ranges and options available, don't undercut yourself. Editing takes time, and you don't want to give your work away for free. Also the cost of image processing adds up. We use to go through Pictage for prints and albims, and Zookbooks for albums, I've also heard good things about Collage. But as it's been a number of years since we last used them I'm not sure how their quality is today.
Make sure to get things in writing. Have a good contract that your customers sign.
Are there any regional discussion boards that you could post your services on?
As for props, look around at local photographer supply stores and look at others images ot see what works and what doesn't. Then think about locations that are available to you to use. Is there a local spring event in your community that you could use to get your name out there. If you're able to contract with the event to have a booth you could offer images on CD or images printed from a quality printer on the spot, or to mail the images to customer.
While I agree to have a variety of price ranges and options available, don't undercut yourself. Editing takes time, and you don't want to give your work away for free. Also the cost of image processing adds up. We use to go through Pictage for prints and albims, and Zookbooks for albums, I've also heard good things about Collage. But as it's been a number of years since we last used them I'm not sure how their quality is today.
Make sure to get things in writing. Have a good contract that your customers sign.
Are there any regional discussion boards that you could post your services on?
As for props, look around at local photographer supply stores and look at others images ot see what works and what doesn't. Then think about locations that are available to you to use. Is there a local spring event in your community that you could use to get your name out there. If you're able to contract with the event to have a booth you could offer images on CD or images printed from a quality printer on the spot, or to mail the images to customer.