As the first blog of the new year…I just want to say happy new year to you all and hope that hit brings you…property.
Okay, back to business. It is odd to see the winter snow fall. It looks so beautiful outside and you can get SO many beautiful photos, but it is so damn cold. I personally don’t like shooting outside in the snow is because, believe it or not but it is hard on the camera. With as much electronics that are in the camera today, it is unreal, and esp. for the battery of the camera, it just drains it. Does anyone have anything that might be able to fix this? I personally shoot with a Nikon D60 Gold Edition and I would just like to be able to shoot outside a bit during this time.
Now last night at about midnight, a gentleman from Topeka contacted me about him wanting to get a family photo taken as a gift of him, “Mom, brother, sister, nephew, and grandpa”. now I normally wouldn’t have a problem with this and wouldn’t charge a lot for this, but then when I went and asked him one simple question of how many outfits there would be (because I know for this kind of photograph there is usually only one outfit that they want to use, I just want to make sure) and this is the full email read (in the email I sent to him I asked him how many people where in his family and the above quote came from the reply as you will see)
“One set of outfits. At most 5. It would be my Mom, brother, sister, nephew, and grandpa. I’d want a variety of shots. Some shots of just my brother and grandpa, some of just my sister and nephew, some of everyone.”
Okay, the problems are as follows:
#1. Topeka is just about an hour away from me and for those of you who haven’t been paying attention to the weather in the Midwest, we’ve been pounded by snow. I mean, since Christmas Eve there has been about two feet of snow and ice that has fallen and not melted, and for those of you who are not from the Midwest don’t know that most people from the Midwest, or Central Midwest rather, do not know how to drive in snow and ice.
#2. I really, really, really, really do not like Topeka. It is a dirty town that the state would, in my mind, be much better off if it didn’t hold the capitol in it.
#3. The guy wants all reprint rights to the photographs, good for me but bad for him as that is going to jack up the price of the photographs.
#4. Sitting fees. Shooting one shot of just the family is one thing, but if he wants him and his sister, him and his mom, him and his grandpa, him and his nephew, is mother and his sister, mother and grandpa, mother and nephew, grandpa and sister, grandpa and nephew and sister and nephew, and then grandfather, sister and brother, grandfather, mom and nephew, grandfather sister and nephew (I don’t think I forgot any possible combo here but my brain is starting to hurt by thinking about about all of these damn combos) but that is a a lot, with at LEAST three shots per couple (and not saying that if they want to do something like a generation photo of Grandpa, Mom and Son or some crazy shit like that) and he did say up to five outfits! SO, as of right now, we are talking about at the MOST, under this situation, 65 photos, which is basically a small wedding package.
So…I am thinking that it looks like a small wedding package here, which is what I fear is what I’m going to have to go through and charge him…let me know your thoughts on that.
Anyways…besides that, I feel that today is going to be a huge year for me.
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