Full Version: senior portraits for a college
I got an email asking about pricing to shoot the senior portraits of the state universities dental school senior class. For use in the yearbook. About 120 people. I don't even know how this would work let alone pricing. I don't shoot studio, but I'm assuming thats what they would want, right? In that case, I wouldn't do it. But I might as well email them back with somethin. This actually sounds like a headache, haha. Thoughts?
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Personally, I'd take it for a quick buck and not look to make too much off of it.
Charge the college your hourly rate, and then Give the students the standard proofing packages etc, and/or maybe just give them the option of buying a cd for $XX dollars with no watermarks or another cd for $YY dollars (less than XX) with "small tasteful watermarks" in the corner. If you priced right you could manage to make a decent bit from it.
Charge the college your hourly rate, and then Give the students the standard proofing packages etc, and/or maybe just give them the option of buying a cd for $XX dollars with no watermarks or another cd for $YY dollars (less than XX) with "small tasteful watermarks" in the corner. If you priced right you could manage to make a decent bit from it.
I would say to charge a flat rate, either by the hour or per person, and then give the students an option for purchase. I know it seems like a pain, but I have done a couple sprots teams (I have a mom who won't let any team her kids are on be photographed by anyone else, she cracks me up) and a couple fundraisers. They are no brainers in the editing department and you'd be surprised how much money you could make for an afternoon of work. I only do maybe 2 or 3 things like this a year and it's nice cash. I think it would drive me nuts if I did more cause that's just not what I want to spend my time doing, but 1 or 2 times? No big deal.
Make up an envelope with A, B C, packages (very few choices) and charge the school whatever you decide. Who knows, you could easily make a couple thousand? Even if each student only paid you $15 for a 5x7 (or something like that) you'd still make $1800. Make a generic announcement for the school that you'd drop their photo into and include that as an option and charge $3 or $4 a card. Most trade schools don't provide students with a way to order graduation announcements. There's lots of possibilities. PM me if you want to brain storm
Make up an envelope with A, B C, packages (very few choices) and charge the school whatever you decide. Who knows, you could easily make a couple thousand? Even if each student only paid you $15 for a 5x7 (or something like that) you'd still make $1800. Make a generic announcement for the school that you'd drop their photo into and include that as an option and charge $3 or $4 a card. Most trade schools don't provide students with a way to order graduation announcements. There's lots of possibilities. PM me if you want to brain storm
I did something similar recently for a group of 40 artists. It was surprisingly easy. I just used my sheet backdrop in a artists' coffee shop in my neighbourhood.
Just make sure you've got someone else co-ordinating them. I allowed 5 minutes/person, and gave them 3 options for pictures.
Just make sure you've got someone else co-ordinating them. I allowed 5 minutes/person, and gave them 3 options for pictures.
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