First photo gig. Need some help.

[randymcclure]

Originally Posted by autofocus

Ultimately, you have to decide what you think your service is worth. You also want to find a couple of good quality labs to start using. As mentioned above, we're not talking CVS

I use Mpix

[autofocus]

Originally Posted by randymcclure

I use Mpix

MPix is good..we also use them from time to time

[randymcclure]

What about cropping? If I were going to give them the pictures on CD, would I crop any of them or just leave them be until its time to order prints?

[autofocus]

Originally Posted by randymcclure

What about cropping? If I were going to give them the pictures on CD, would I crop any of them or just leave them be until its time to order prints?

If you don't know what they will want to buy there should be no reason to do crops in advance of an order.

[randymcclure]

Originally Posted by autofocus

If you don't know what they will want to buy there should be no reason to do crops in advance of an order.

Even if there may be unsightly objects in the picture. There's one that was taken beside a house and it looks good cropped 8x10, but the full 4x6 shows part of the house. I was just thinking since they may use the digital images online, would that come back on me as a photographer if someone else saw it?

[autofocus]

Originally Posted by randymcclure

Even if there may be unsightly objects in the picture. There's one that was taken beside a house and it looks good cropped 8x10, but the full 4x6 shows part of the house. I was just thinking since they may use the digital images online, would that come back on me as a photographer if someone else saw it?

re-crop it to a 4x6 to eliminate the bad part, and save the original for further cropping if necessary in the future
All the more reason why you have to look beyond the subject when composing the shot

[funcrunch]

Originally Posted by randymcclure

So I just had my first family portrait session the other day. I ended up getting about 5 or 6 different shots of the the family. My question is how do I present them with the photos? I don't really know any of the steps that photographer's take to get pictures from the camera into the hands of clients.

No offense but why did you agree to do a paid shoot with the admitted knowledge that you had no idea how you were going to get the resulting photos to the clients? This all should have been figured out and spelled out in a contract beforehand.