Aside from the technical aspect, who is your client? Are you going to get paid?
You should definitely tell them that you never done such an event and manage expectations up front. If you think you are able to meet their expectations or they are cool with you “trying”, go for it!
Try lightpainting, its quite easy and a lot of fun
Thats a hard question i think everybody is struggling with especially in the beginning. Some points i would recommend:
Charge a fee that includes everything (shooting.time, editing, transport, ect). If they want to keep you longer than the two hours/have extra fancy editing wishes charge more. I personaly dont think its good to charge per final images or editing time separately. If you are good or have a fast workflow, why should you get less money for that than someone who has no experience in that and take forever?
You choose the final images (but if there are more than 12 good ones, give them more) I almost never let my clients choose the keepers out of all the images i take and i never had anyone complain about that. Deliver the best of the best shots and dont even show the bad or mediocre ones.
Think about a price that you are comfortable with. That means that you give them a good product but also you will get something out of that in the end beside all the work and stress. If 75 bucks per hour is ok for you and you feel like its fair, charge that, but you could also say 250 per hour if you feel confident enough. Nobody beside you can decide that. BUT before you say your price add 10-20% to it. If they want to haggle, go back to your original price. If not, congrats to some extra bucks ;)
I had the same discussion with myself a lot of times as well, even after a couple of years its often hard to give my time and effort a price. Selling your service is an artform itself and same as photography this takes time and practise to master
Hope this helps a bit
Absolutely but also be ready to decline and just say no to lowball offers. Some ppl are not willing to pay for quality,.also those clients are tend to be annoying and start nitpicking afterwards,.wanting extra edits and so on.
You get booked bc you can do something they cant and everybody who is not willing to make a fair offer should be aware of that.
You should both tell then to go f… themselfes for real.
So they dont have any costs, no risk, no work beside organizing a photographer and get a percentage of your sales as well… thats bullshit
I wouldn want to work under those terms. I would try to negociate that they pay a fixed rate for your work and then they can try to sell those images.
The sad thing is they will always find someone to work under those conditions (someone who is starting and is happy to get some practice) but of you are a professional you need to get paid for your work and not speculate that in the end maybe someone will buy your shots
I dont know if i would do that. I sometimes shoot for free (for family or really good friends or at one i event i help organizing) but this sounds like a big scam, pls dont tell me they take a percentage of the sold pictures as well?
So if nobody wants the pictures you take you get nothing? Sounds like a shit job thb…
Really feel you there. I keep telling myself that nobody will ever zoom in on a picture at 300% but i struggle with over doing the 20% of work that takes 80% of the time…
Perfect, see if that is something for you and get experience. Good luck and have fun!