if you shoot film 90 percent of the time

dont you send a booking form and a contract before shooting anything i find your price extremely low provide you are delivering top notch content i charge 75 per picture the booking fee alone is 150 usd per session

anyone shooting film except peter Mckinnon

i charge almost the same 75 per pictures 275 x5 et 700 for the entire roll ( i shoot film so 24 image for 700 usd )

it is all here you can check

www.gilbertcarosin.com/booking

these do not include the booking fee ( 150 usd )

Having a website being registered with your country tax and business registration, be on google my business then online marketing having a proper booking form, cancel/refund policy, managing booking and clients, building connection locally with school kindergarten music association or any local association. Also being very specialised is in my opinion a must but other might have different view about this… consider not making any money for the first few years being a reality also you will be competing against many others like yourself and sometime against the big production and studio, your pricing will dictate the quality of your client don’t be cheap even you are not booking anyone this will only bring the kind of client you don’t want to deal with … think also of your potential client and why they would spend money on a photography session or photo, you have to be able to sell yourself in a extremely subtle way …

if you are into portrait photography you don’t look for it you simply create it with a flash, reflector or diffuser … are you going to ask you client to wait 3 hours for the right light or ask them to walk hours to find the perfect spot ? for landscape/architecture a very good tripod and some nd/cpl filter is the way to go with some general knowledge of long exposure photography

nikkor 135mm f3.5 Ais 7 years of professional photography as my main lens ( i only have 3 ) the best portrait lens of the Nikon line-up - i have a 28mm f3.5 Ai and a 50mm f1.8 Ai but the 135mm is the one i will never let go …

on digital my turn around would be maximum one week usually between 3 or 5 day for small session like this … i shoot on film now my turnover is 14 working days only because i have to send the film abroad for processing to an external lab but one month i would be worried … when this kind of problem arise between client and photographer i always ask “what does your contract says or what are the rules and regulation of the shooting/photographer”

we solve problem or give advice to professional or semi pro or amateur photographer … we are not interested in your picture but you can send a link to your portfolio if it might help anyone on a specific issue in this group

how to protect your picture simply dont share them… use a private gallery on a website

Topaz.

dont forget they often shoot at very high iso so this software is essential for wildlife

a rock solid boom arm and heavy duty roller stand

https://www.gilbertcarosin.com/post/the-most-important-tool-in-your-photography-studio

www.gilbertcarosin.com

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i would advise you you check the booking page and click on the rule and regulation link this is the part most photographer seems to neglect and it backfire very badly when things don’t go according to plan

your photography have to serve a purpose, who are you targeting ? what benefit would someone have to hire you or buy your picture ? … there is a lot of marketing involved and an instagram wont be enough a proper website and also all the booking form or contract needed to make the client feel safe … it is basically running a full business …there will be a lot of front investment and maybe very little or even no return in the first years the market is overcrowded everywhere … it is also better to be extremely consistent with your portfolio … i love doing landscape photography but i make zero money from it so you wont see any of it on my website

- youtube gear review and clickbait ( you don’t need to be an actual photographer for this )

- selling presets

- workshop - masterclass - online training ( very profitable when there is a lockdown )

in the real world of photography

doing commercial for big brands ( fashion and product )

doing headshot for vip and actors or businessmen

family and portrait session

all these 3 of course require having a complete studio

studio photographer here 7 plus year experience shooting professionally ( been shooting as a hobby for way longer tthan that… since i have moved back to film i would say 98 percent because there is always room for some technical issue with sync using old camera and strobes. but depending on what you shoot there could be very different result, the camera i used was designed for sport and can burn through a full 36 exposure film roll in just about 8 second so i guess back in the day when using it for sport it would be normal to shoot a hundred rolls and only have a 2 or 3 picture published so it really depends on what you do

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P.s as you progress through your photography journey your eyes will develop and what you might consider amazing today will become very ordinary in the future the opposite is also true … when i started i though film photography was inferior now i cannot shoot anything else than film photography

you live and learn we have all gone through this … you can now use chat gpt to write your contact or booking form… i used it to update the terms of my usual contract when i moved to film photography earlier this year.

a good contract …of course before the shooting and signed by both parties