Tim,
Time is money but you have to go with your heart.
I suggest that you figure out how many hours work is involved and then decide for yourself what your time is worth.
You can't take commercial rates as a yardstick.
I charge $1500 a day for general, below the line, commercial work. But I am often shooting for nothing for friends or family. Kids portraits and stuff like that. If an art director who gives me a lot of work says that he needs a favour, I will shoot within his budget even if it's $100.
The best way to make money on the kind of thing you are shooting is to sell the prints at a good price. All the parents will buy pics for the extended family and I'm sure you can buy a new D70 with the money you'll make out of print orders. (BTW, Do you think the Nikon D70 is a better camera than the Canon digital rebel?)
Kidding
Herschel
Tim Holmes <w8tah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Tim Holmes <w8tah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Philip Clarke wrote:
>I'd like to see an example website for a start.
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>On Thursday 07 Jul 2005 20:35, Tim Holmes wrote:
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>>Hi Folks:
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>>Our Little League all star game is this weekend, and the coach for the
>>team I work with (as VOLUNTEER team photographer) has suggested to the
>>commissioner that it might be appropriate for the league to pay me to
>>photograph the All-Star game and post the pictures on a website for the
>>kids and parents.
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>>To be very honest, this is more about working with the kids and giving
>>them something special than it is about making money, but if they offer,
>>I would like to have a reasonable figure in mind to suggest to them. It
>>would be nice to make some cash, so I can get my D70 repaired, as it is
>>now out of commission and I am stuck shooting on a digital rebel.
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>>In terms of the job, I generally tend to shoot between 400 and 600
>>pictures per game, and there will be 2 games that I will be working.
>>The downloading the pics and posting them to the site will not take all
>>that long, maybe 2 hours at best, with another 2 hours or so for the
>>site construction. Up until now photography has been a hobby, so I
>>havent ever really charged for anything, and i dont even know where to
>>begin.
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>>Your thoughts and feedback would be most welcome
>>
>>TIM
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check out www.w8tah.us/marlins for the general look and feel. I cannot
give out the passwords for the pictures site because of privacy issues
(the pictures are of minor children).
TIM
Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Adobe Certified instructor
+ (986) 99899 673
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