A man e-mailed me in response to my Craigslist ad about my photography business. His dad's 70th birthday party is coming up on the 19th of July and he wants candid shots, a family portraiture, and one individual shot. I was thinking of charging him $950. Is that too much?
I consider myself Professional. I mean, I have a degree in professional photography.
How did I come up with $950? I still use 35mm film. I do do some digital. The party starts at 11AM and will probably end around sometime in the afternoon. It's going to cost me an arm and a leg to get the photos printed seeing as most of the places in my area like CVS and Walgreens stopped doing 35mm. There is a specialty shop that does 35mm that is the only one close to me and they charge $45 a roll plus $3.50 per photo printed.
There are no other photography businesses in my area, and if there are they are not advertising! There is one photo business 10 minutes down the road from me, but they only do senior photos and they charge $600 for one lousy wallet-sized photo. I'm just asking if $950 is okay? 35mm film costs me $100 and lasts me about a month. Driving to the venue of where the party is will cost me about $75. Batteries for my flash will be about $10. Getting film printed is $45 a roll plus $3.50 for each photo so that's about $190 - $200.
I consider myself Professional. I mean, I have a degree in professional photography.
How did I come up with $950? I still use 35mm film. I do do some digital. The party starts at 11AM and will probably end around sometime in the afternoon. It's going to cost me an arm and a leg to get the photos printed seeing as most of the places in my area like CVS and Walgreens stopped doing 35mm. There is a specialty shop that does 35mm that is the only one close to me and they charge $45 a roll plus $3.50 per photo printed.
There are no other photography businesses in my area, and if there are they are not advertising! There is one photo business 10 minutes down the road from me, but they only do senior photos and they charge $600 for one lousy wallet-sized photo. I'm just asking if $950 is okay? 35mm film costs me $100 and lasts me about a month. Driving to the venue of where the party is will cost me about $75. Batteries for my flash will be about $10. Getting film printed is $45 a roll plus $3.50 for each photo so that's about $190 - $200.