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Be interesting to know how much I've spent on gear. Prolly 50k plus. But the only waste I could think of would be 150 quid buying and selling a cack canon 400d
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Bit of both tbh... I love doing weddings, I'm good with people and after getting married myself felt it would be a really nice thing to be involved in... however it also pays for all my kit and I couldn't buy half of what I do unless it was because it would benefit the business (even if sometimes I buy it because I want it and use the business aspect as an excuse lol).
I reckon if I can clear £1k a wedding in a few years time, and do maybe 18 a year, then do some commercial stuff on top of that and make another £3k, then add a few family shoots in, baby bump etc I can make about £25k a year which is decent and about what I'm on now.
Might do a bit of part time photography teaching too which would add to the yearly income and as I'm a qualified teacher it's something I should be able to find work doing I think / hope.
It's not something I could ever turn over £50k a year doing I wouldn't imagine, but I'd love what I did and sometimes that's more important IMO
Of course you can recoup the outlay on them.
I only need to do 2 weddings at £550 each and that's my 7D paid for.
Admittedly I need more than that to pay for the rest of the kit like but should hopefully get them in.
You are you, I'm talking about the average Joe bloggs buying a dslr
Clearly summit you enjoy doing, hope you get there in the end. I've made about £600 in total from prints and one paid job.. thats £100 for every month i've had the 7d
You should look to make more money from framed & mounted prints as well - you can make allot of money from that.
You are you, I'm talking about the average Joe bloggs buying a dslr
Thanks mate, yeah I love it... not just the photography either but the business side too.
I've just started adding in an 'extra items' price list with the disk of images I send out to customers in the hope of adding a little extra cash to every wedding I do. It's something I need to push more though, but buying samples etc isn't cheap and I've kind of blown my budget / overdraft / credit limit on the new lenses sadly.
might be abit tough for you, in your line of work aswell? cannot imagine the pro landscape photographer making out but filum commercially viable TBH..
Be interesting to know how much I've spent on gear. Prolly 50k plus. But the only waste I could think of would be 150 quid buying and selling a cack canon 400d
Get your self a decent custom made frame & mount and get one of your favorite images printed to fit and take it with you when you drop the images off. People love to see the images printed and framed, in the couple jobs i've done i've had success making money from the prints this way..
Certainly less competition doing what I do than weddings oc. And I have the track record of sales. But publishers are also far tighter and are only keen to publish now with a virtual promise of sales. Not necessarily a bad thing, veering me toward the most commercial projects
I don't drop the images off mate... got far too much on with the business and the day job to be going to people's houses with the images. I just post them.
It's something I'm going to show during pre-wedding meetings though and also put some stuff on my site I think that has examples.
You're right though that it can be a good money spinner.
yeah but, the actual images you take have to be commercially viable in the first place don't they? you finding you can do that on a DSLR and compete with the quality of your pano's?
you should marra, missing a trick there. Put a shirt and tie on, take in the iPad and a couple framed samples of you previous work. Sell sell sell..
If you do bump and baby stuff it is hard for the ma' to say no..
you should marra, missing a trick there. Put a shirt and tie on, take in the iPad and a couple framed samples of you previous work. Sell sell sell..
If you do bump and baby stuff it is hard for the ma' to say no..
what do you use? I always was under the impression you were still using filmDon't use a dslr sean
The quality is better than film tbh. Why I resisted so long is the only mystery
Well, quality in terms of sharpness. There are other measures. But I've got better with colours too
what do you use? I always was under the impression you were still using film
yer, i literally have no idea what you just said.....Since January Horseman swd, and Cambo wds with phase one back
Only use film with the 300m lens now, as there's no suitable lenses that long for the digi
yer, i literally have no idea what you just said.....
ah right, my 400d is 14 IIRC.nor me, but i just looked at those phase one cameras - 13 stops dynamic range which is class compared to the 7d..
ah right, my 400d is 14 IIRC.
nor me, but i just looked at those phase one cameras - 13 stops dynamic range which is class compared to the 7d..
11, the 7d is 11.7.
It's cunning like. But I think sensor size is the big step up.