Convention photography

[bepell]

Hello all. I live in Las Vegas and we have hundreds of conventions each year in various locations.

I wanted to know if anyone has experience getting into contact with the event planners and what to say to them to shoot their conventions. How should the conversation go?

I am thinking at the minimum 125 hr rate, minimum 2hrs. I will do the basic editing and setup a place where they can login and get the images.

Any suggestions or comments in regards to this?

[Jim Bryant]

That's way too low a figure. You would loose time and money. Besides most convention organizations will hire a photo group that will have onsite printing capabilities to sell prints & CD's on the spot.

[bhursey]

Originally Posted by Jim Bryant

That's way too low a figure. You would loose time and money. Besides most convention organizations will hire a photo group that will have onsite printing capabilities to sell prints & CD's on the spot.

Time for bepell to buy some massive thermal printers. JK

Ya my wife tried to get me to do santa pictures like they do at the mall after I started listing out the equipment I would need thermal printers, lighting, processing software and so on. She sai uhhhh never mind.

I shoot chirch conventions and concerts at my chirch however I do all of that for free as a donation. Note we have a very very large chirch.