Photographer of the Poor and Infamous.
Well I have finally gotten sort of settled in… I say sort of because I’m still in the small bedroom and still cleaning up the big bedroom that was originally mine when I was a kid. I’ll be moving in there eventually… after I’ve cleaned out all of the cobwebs and such.
It is weird to be back in Oklahoma (ß note.. this answers one Q of where am I). But what is even weirder is once again living in a small town… and I do mean small! The total population here is about 1500.
It’s been a little over two weeks, so probably over 50% of the population now knows I’m moved back home and that I had a miscarriage. Ain’t small town life grand?
It’s kinda funny that in one of the comments someone asked if I would take photos of them… because just yesterday a woman my sister works with saw the photo on my sister’s yahoo page (that I had taken of her) and got all excited. Once she found out that I had done the photos she was hitting my sister up to have me do a photo shoot for her.
I of course will have to wait for my things to arrive from Bulgaria to find my backgrounds etc… but my biggest dilemma is and has always been… what to charge?
I did photos of a couple of ladies who were a lot older than me while I was in Sofia. I spent considerable time their photos removing or smoothing lots and lots of wrinkles and sun spots. (shhh.. don’t tell!)
I’m not kidding when I say that I sometimes spent hours on a photograph to get it just right. Now I had never experienced that before, with my own photos I can usually do simple touchups in less than 30 minutes or so. Would I charge the same for both photos even though one took me hours and one took <1? It’s hard to figure out such things.
The photo session for those two women took about 4 hours with many clothing changes and two bottles of wine, would I charge by the hour? It was fun.. but it was work.
If I was in Dallas or LA it wouldn’t be as difficult I don’t think.. I would consider myself a specialist and charge a hefty price, but living in Po-Dunk Oklahoma where people are poor… even poorer (is poorer a word?) than dirt!… I just don’t think people would be willing to pay a specialist price. Sigh..
Well it’s late and I’m off to bed, I’ll try to not be so long in posting my next bit of nonsense… sweet dreams all.
[Oh.. and all of you out there who are actually getting laid! yeah.. i'm talking to you! Well.. take one for me will ya.... um... and could you send one my way? ]
anyone?
Posted at Friday, January 21, 2005 by Sanorah
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Sanorah
January 25, 2005 07:13 AM PST
LOL... no actually i was saying i would try not to wait so long before i posted again... but alas... i have. sorry girls. not much going on in life right now but scrubbing my mom's house. |
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Beth
January 24, 2005 07:17 PM PST
Too bad, OK is so far from Michigan or I'd pay you the big bucks too!
I think another Jen made an excellent suggestion about package prices. Then if they want more then the usual half hour of retouching, that could be negotiable based on a your hourly "specialist" rate.
Another way to go about it is to find out where the nearest "Glamour Shots" is and what they're charging. I bet it's a lot more then what you usually charge!
Also, you are *not* apologizing for the length of *your own posts* on *your own blog* are you? Because I think that's our job, to apologize for hogging up your blog space with our asshat comments. :-) |
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Joanne
January 23, 2005 07:10 PM PST
Hey Sanorah - just dropping by to let you know you're in my thoughts and prayers. |
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anotherjen
January 22, 2005 10:22 PM PST
you could have a few different packages with different prices. One with a standard sit down- light or no retouching, and another with more serious outfit changes, time and more retouching. that way people could choose how much they wanted to spend.
man- i wish i lived in oklahoma! i'd pay you the big bucks. |
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