Your First Paid Photoshoot
You're interested in photography. It's your passion. You love it, you have the eye for it and your Facebook buddies or Flickr contacts look forward to seeing your photos everytime. You've been doing it for free because it was just your hobby, an expensive one at that.
Then comes that e-mail. Somebody or some group love your style and want you to be their photographer. But what do you do? You don't have a website yet. You don't have an online store where people can buy your photos. After all, this was just a hobby. How much do you charge? Do you charge a shoot fee + fee for each print? Model releases? Contract stipulations?
As you may have guessed already, this is my situation right now. A martial arts club caught my work and want me to do some photos of their fighters for use on their website and to make some new calendars for the 2009 year.
But instead of advice, I want to hear your experience. Your story. Your solutions and your actions and how you were or weren't succesful at it, and what would you do next time if you were doing it all over again.
Let's hear it!
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