Photography Business Forum

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,...

Client: USA Budget: 6,270.36 (packaged, include the whole production) Model: Caucasian x 2 Product: 100 sets bikini, and each 3 photo (front, side, back) Location: beach Talent: MUA, Assistant EquipmentsDinningTransport Retouch Usage: International many countries, website,...

Recently I had a phone enquiry about some location based work for a manufacturer of hotel furnishings. That's great, interiors are what I do, and it would seem to be a great way of getting my work seen at various hotels, so that next time they wanted promotional photography,...

I have a long time client who manufactures furniture. I've been charging them a per shot fee of $X per product, with variations of that same product being charged at half of the initial shot cost. IE, if we shoot one primary shot and two variations I charge them $2X.  Lately...

Hey all! I'd love some advice about services that I might be able to use to create web-galleries that clients can login for proofing and downloading; What do you use? Any ideas? Thanks  Ben

I am currently having difficulties in getting clients. I would like to know some ways to build my client list.

I have a client I've been working for for about 10 years and they're really on my last nerve. I would like to thing that I'm a much better photographer than I was 10 years ago, a much more seasoned businessman, and much more, well, mature, than I was then. I would expect the...

First of all, hello and it's good to be here. This looks like a genuinely friendly and helpful website - and I'm glad I stumbled upon it! I have had the same website for about 5 years, and it draws in a good deal of traffic. But, i does not bear my own name, but the name of a...

I  photographed an event a couple a weeks ago.  The agreement between me and the person I shooting for was that I would own all the rights.  Now third parties are asking to use some of my pictures on their website.  One such is a high school that had some students at the...

I'm interested in hearing peoples' approaches to dealing with the neurotic bundles of 'I want!' that are all too common today. ;-) How do photographers in this market handle such aspects of their work - how do you keep clear of the whirlwind? Although my commercial photographic...

This comes now up pretty often here in Shakodo and I wonder how we can do this better... Whenever we work with a client, we have to ask them about usage, time frames, etc etc. When we work with models or properties, we need releases etc etc. This adds a lot of bureaucracy...

Dear all, I am a (Dutch) pro photographer based in Southern Spain. Apart from it's own little (squeeze) economy in the international community here on the coast, there seems to be  huge gap in mainly the US prices and European prices. Europe seems to have a significantly lower...

Maybe this is just my local deal issues, I am based in Hong Kong and China.Everyday my client tell me that they have a very little budget.This result ... I can't build the set as I want... rent / buy the props as I want ... finally shoot with just seamless paper.I can't shoot...

My highest package is $150, which is 2 hours of shooting time, and disk of the best images on a disk on high resolution. I started photography a year ago. I'm really serious about photography and after all the research I've done, I've learned that at my prices I'm pretty much...