Greetings Emily, The post is not regarding a typical executive location shooting board portraits, or even senior portraits. It is an answer to Russ, his specific clientele shot in studio and processed on-site, all in which I have exact experience. Re-read my post and you will see my 'value' of the shooting session Russ inquired of is 150.00. Artists and musicians are not difficult to shoot for those of us who do this on a regular basis. If I cannot get the shot in the first 10 minutes-well then, I am having a really bad day! We photographers get "known" is those circles and do have a parade of people coming to us at certain 'seasons' of the business. Return business is almost guaranteed with this type of client. -Bobbie Blazy : ) """Bobbie, I really think that's way too low. An hour of your time including scouting and planning? For only $50? How in heaven's name do you think you could cover your cost of doing business with such a low fee?! It's not like he's going to have a parade of portrait customers coming through his studio, bang, bang, bang. This seems to me to be rather more effort than that. If he's going for the most appealing facial expression, that's 30 minutes under the lights right there. Then there's setting up, and warming up the client, and breaking down and loading up the car and unloading and paperwork and running to and back from the lab twice and meeting with the client to review the shoot and getting and delivering the print order. Sure, some of that last part comes out of the print price, but still it...""""
