Artistic-Cap-121@alien.topBtoPhotography•My sister lost some of her equipment on the way to take pictures for her first big profile client. What can she do?English
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11 months agoI see many write about rentals already so here an other option, tell her to contact local photographers and explain them the situation.
In my area we have a whatsapp group of about 50+ photographer and also some filmmaker. When something like this happens, they write it in the group and it usually have a few that are willing to rent their equiptment for a day. For batteries i think it should not have any problem to find someone who is willing to borrow them to her.
- possible to get the equiptment late at night or ealy in the morning
- possible to avoid delaying the shoot
- probably expensive more than buying some new batteries
I am a full time Photogrpher from Italy, your prices are not too high and are actually affordable.
I charge 240€ per hour of Shooting (editing included), i usually decrease it, when they book me for longer, or don’t charge every hour since i like to take my time to make the pictures as good as possible. I often also make offers which with a fixed price, for example ( i shoot picture of product A, B, C and will deliver at least 3 picture per product for X€) like this i can decide by myself how long i take for finjsbing the pictures and clients know the exact amont that i will charge already.
If you want to make a living you need to charge these prices and most of the full time photographer charge somewhere around this amount. Same as you say, about 40% of the money will be expenses and you would not always have Work. You also need to upgrade equiptment regularly to stay up to date, which cost a lot of money too and they pay for your experience which a hobby Photographer that charge less might not have.
In your situation, i would try to explain that to them. See how they react, if they try to make a big deal out of it, i would let it go and take it as a lesson for future clients. Be carefull to keep a good reputation and always give them your rates first or make an offer.