Photography Business Forum

Good morning everyone. So I will going to an Art festival in a lovely town called Fuchu in Tokyo next month. It was a lottery to get in and I was lucky enough to win! So I will be selling T-shirts of my photography company as well as postcards of my images and most importantly...

I am in the process of setting up a website for selling my fine art photographic digital art to the public. I have chosen a lab to fulfill my orders, and in setting up the site, they list their cost to me for prints, and then I must fill in how much I wish to charge the public...

My wife and I are moving to LA towards the end of the summer.  Any advice on how to quickly reestablish my business?  Thanks in advance

I shot a destination wedding in Jamaica two weeks ago, but at the same time, I see more business disappearing every day to "uncle Fred" who will do it for less. Or for free. Not great work, but money seems to trump everything now.

I am an amateur photographer, and have got a press pass from another photographer for a 2 day music festival at the end of june. There will be 3 stages plus a comedy tent and a chefs kitchen.  There will be some big name music acts, big name commediens and big name chefs...

Hello I know many of you have been ask the same question sometime in your life, to bring your camera with you to an event or party. I received this email today and I started to wonder....would it be right to say no? but how to say it without been rude, what words to use?Would...

I have a couple of local agents that want me to shoot some photos of upcoming listings.  I currently do not have a wide angle lens because I am running my business debt free and don't have enough to buy one yet.  What are my options?  Thanks!

Hi, I have been asked to shoot a 5K race for a non-profit organization rasing money for a scholarship in honor of the organizers son who was tragically killed a couple of years ago a car crash.  I don't want to charge her anything, and I'm not. But she said that people...

I've been browsing lots of different pay and free website hosting sites and I can't make up my mind. I'd like to be able to choose the design and layout etc, but I know nothing about web coding, so I need something thats pretty straightforward and easy, but still capable of...

In trying to develop a workable solution with bridal couples who have no idea how much a wedding should cost (they are out there, kicking tires), but know what they are budgeted, how much of that budget, percentage-wise, should be allocated to their photography expenses?

I believe people download photos from my website and use in their blog without my permission, commercial website, soft ads. etc.. What will you do? Send months to contact them?

Is there a preferred workflow software / management system that photographers are using? I shoot weddings and would like to be able to effectively and efficiently manage the galleries, my customers, online sales and all the peripheral business of shipping, handling, collecting,...

I'll be starting a new job next week at Magenta Photo Studio. All flack aside for that fact I will be going to work for them, my concern is the clause/contract they want me to sign. It's a non-compete/non-solicitation which I am fine with for the most part, except that they...

Hello, fellow photogs! I could use some of your suggestions today... I posted the same question hours ago on the Assignment portion of Shakodo with no response. Hopefully a second post in the Business section here gets someones attention... I need help pricing out this job and...

I am somewhere between an amateur and semi-professional and have been asked to photograph a baptism inside of a church, followed by portraits of the family's children outside. She wants to use one of the photos for her Christmas card this year. I usually only do portraits,...

So I know my biggest problem is that my current interested market is my hometown network, & friends don't generally pay. However, I get about a dozen e-mails a week asking about booking a session & what my rates are. I've tried many different methods -- providing a rate sheet,...

I'm a photography student, & I got into a debate with my teacher today over a quoting assignment. My teacher was upset that I did not include a license price in my quote. My argument was that there was not enough information provided to accurately give an image rental price,...

Is having/operating a blog really an essential as a photographer today? I have a Fan Page, Twitter, a Website, & Flickr. I am thinking of bringing video logging into play with the use of YouTube, but after maintaining all that social media, do I really need a blog as part of my...

I would like to know what I should be aware of when shooting a clients wood art sculptures at my home. These will be table top shots and I will have them dropped of and in my possession for a few days. What type of insurance covers damage, loss or theft of a clients property at...