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It’s a place you go to cheapen your field by offering highly skilled services for less than a Big Mac and help to perpetuate a culture of people asking for things like Logo Design for as low as $5. For photography, you’re hiring someone with a camera over 12 megapixels (it seems low, but 12 is a generally agreed upon standard that’s the minimum), who can operate the camera manually, who can edit the photos in a professional-grade software like Adobe Photoshop, and who knows the general professional standards for photography. Even Thumbtack, a service where people send out requests for services and then Pro’s can respond and quote their own price, shows a result of this under-priced culture. I have to reject most requests that come my way because the price people ask is normally too low, like $100 for on-location Engagement photography when they’re looking for 30-50 final images.

Create a Facebook Page because let’s be honest, pretty much everybody has a Facebook account and these pages can make your business show up to just about everybody, especially if you’re a baller and want to pay for ads. If you do list your prices online, fewer people may contact you, but it’s possible that a higher percentage will become paying clients. You’ll still have to decide what’s included with that, but there’s a good way to find out your personal flat rate pricing! Basically, if there’s a potential that you could damage something or you don’t want to be liable for something, use this contract.

So I’ll just do a recap of what I experienced, and then go onto how to handle it when it’s a client of yours, and then a client of your client. If you’re uncomfortable for a legitimate reason (some people just get irrationally uncomfortable around new people – Anger builds on anger, so if you end up in a shouting match, it’s likely that you won’t accomplish anything and there’ll be a lawsuit at your door, at least in the United States. If it’s totally out of reason, usually hearing these words from someone else’s mouth can be enough to make them stop and think, “

Personally, when I work with models, I have two goals in mind: Obviously if you’re working with a model, you didn’t say, There’s a level of comfort models have with photographers they’ve worked with before and enjoyed working with that’s rarely seen by a first-time model/photographer duo. A good photographer and professional model should still be able to create professional images on their first shoot together, but it’ll come faster and easier in the future. You’re human, models are also humans (unless you’re working with animals), and sometimes people just aren’t compatible.