Emily, My wife has been doing craft shows for many years and it's become common for a booth slide to be required as part of applying to shows. We've spent $40-75.00 for a show photographer to take a booth shot. This usually is done before or after the public is around. They might spend 15-20 minutes with a portable flash unit with an umbrella with another flash on the tripod-mounted camera - and it was crap. The lighting set-up was good, but it was a poor representation of the work and display, and thus not much use as part of an application. If it's just a record shot done in 5 or 6 minutes, I'm not sure that a craftperson would want to spend much for it. And why do a slide? One of the shows in Ann Arbor used to send a photographer around & give a complimentary print of the artist standing in their booth. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Emily L. Ferguson" <elf@cape.com> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu>t Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 11:27 AM Subject: craftsmen's booths at fairs > A friend of mine is on the committee of a regional crafts > organization, and he and I have proposed to the committee that I > shoot the craftspeople's booths as a service to them (for a fee to > me, of course). >
