At 10:34 PM -0700 6/6/02, Jay Bjerkan wrote: >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. Yup. >We've spent >$40-75.00 for a show photographer to take a booth shot. How many slides did you get for that? Were they identical originals, dupes or each slightly different? How often did you do that? Once a year? Only every time you changed the booth significantly? Every time you redesigned your product line? >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. Hmm. How was that? What was crap about it? Colors wrong? Not well framed? Terrible shadows? >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? It's a record shot for application to further shows, so it has to be a slide. But I don't want it to be crap. Crap never leads to further business. One pro around here charges $19/slide for shooting flat art or crafts. He has a permanently set up studio. Another guy charges $40/hr + film expense for the same type of work. He sets up each shoot more or less from scratch. This would not be a studio set-up, so each shot would have to be set up from scratch depending on the objects in the booth. -- Emily L. Ferguson elf@cape.com 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography Beetle cats on the web at: http://www.beetlecat.com/gft-pics/ef-notes.htm http://www.beetlecat.org/results/99champs.html http://www.beetlecat.org/store.html#yrbook
