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.
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Emily L. Ferguson
EMILY,
I can almost feel the pressure -from here! So- I will risk the Wrath of the 'techno deities' of the List & simply state how I would Photograph this situation. I also have seen the Wonderful way You handle -LIGHT- in the Photos You have posted to the GALLERY - and am confident You can handle this assignment.
FORGET the Flash - DO Not use Slide Film!!!!!
Buy, rent, borrow or steal the biggest pair of rolling 'Photo Floods' You can find. Use Professional color print film -matched to their Kelvin Temperature (or filter daylight film to 32-3400 K). Shoot a gray card with color scale on each roll of film. Use a tripod and have Your subjects pose, but move around with a second camera (fast lens) and try for some candid angles. Fuji 800 ? Shoot all the film You can in the time You have.
If You Can't get access to Photo Floods - (make Your own) - approach would still be the same. Use 'Color Negative Film' filtered for the lighting conditions and professionally printed with color corrections. A slide can be made from a color negative (& looks better) -just takes alil longer- depends on Your Customer deadline.
Present each exhibitor with a group of color print 'photo proofs' to find out which one(s) they would like for You to -make into a Slide- for their application.
Then - CHARGE EM DOUBLE-!
jIMMY
