About me: I do photography as a hobby. I have never sold any of my work. I have love photography and love landscape and out door pics. I have taken thousands of pics of my two kids sports. My oldest is in third year of collage. Youngest in 7th grade. I have been elected be the photographer of my daughters middle school tennis matches just to get a few pics for yearbook and give away pics to parents and make a music video for banquet.
The Idea: I want to start freelancing for high school sports. I did it for one lady for baseball and did not charge her anything, just to see if I could deliver. It was a great experience. I use a Canon T1i with a 70-200L 2.8 Also have a 70-300 4-5.6 is. It take good shots in sun light.
Instead of shooting the whole team. Hire my self out to a parent to shoot as many shots of there kid in one game for a flat price. They would be getting more pics and better action shots and I would not be just getting a cut from the web site. I will touch up, using gimp right now and give the pics to them on a small drive in raw. Then they can do what ever they want to with the pics. It just seems easier for every body.
Or am I missing something
Thanks for you time.
Pricing: Thought about starting out with this deal.
$50.00 to shoot one game.
That is 40.00 to retain my services, up front, none refundable and $10.00 for the best top 20 images. (.50 per image)
.25 for any images' after that.
You never know, they might want all 450 inages that I have taken. lol
I sort of based that on this woman was paying $1.50 for one 4x6. I know a lot of yall might think that is low and that I am low balling my self. But I am just starting out and I am my biggest critic. But that is 50 dollars plus, for a night at the ball park and go home and clean up 20 images'.
I don't know maybe 1.00 per image and .50 for image after.
What do you think.
Thanks DAVY
