Comments for SOULOGRAPHER - CREATIVE RESOURCES FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHERS / WORKSHOP WORKBOOK / POSING GUIDE http://www.soulographer.com Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on she works hard for the money by Sandy http://www.soulographer.com/she-works-hard-for-the-money/comment-page-2/#comment-9133 Sandy Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:54:23 +0000 http://www.soulographer.com/?p=1435#comment-9133 Le sigh. Oh yes. I was too afraid to charge for my first wedding because I didn't want to disappoint. I didn't feel qualified. I was extremely happy with the results and excited to send the images off to the couple and what did I get back? Barely a thank you! It was literally in the first half of the sentence that asked if they could have the unedited images so they could "play with them." I was so disappointed and felt so taken advantage of. I wanted to ask her why she would hire a professional photographer if she just wanted to 'play' with the images... then I remembered she didn't 'hire' me. I was very professional in my response (which was a NO! lol) and never treated them any differently than I would have a paying customer and after I dropped the SECOND disc off (because I was also asked if there were any more of so and so) I never heard from them again. No thank you. No thank you card. Not a mention. I must say though, I hope that they don't send any business my way. Good riddance and lesson learned! Le sigh. Oh yes. I was too afraid to charge for my first wedding because I didn’t want to disappoint. I didn’t feel qualified. I was extremely happy with the results and excited to send the images off to the couple and what did I get back? Barely a thank you! It was literally in the first half of the sentence that asked if they could have the unedited images so they could “play with them.” I was so disappointed and felt so taken advantage of. I wanted to ask her why she would hire a professional photographer if she just wanted to ‘play’ with the images… then I remembered she didn’t ‘hire’ me.

I was very professional in my response (which was a NO! lol) and never treated them any differently than I would have a paying customer and after I dropped the SECOND disc off (because I was also asked if there were any more of so and so) I never heard from them again. No thank you. No thank you card. Not a mention.

I must say though, I hope that they don’t send any business my way. Good riddance and lesson learned!

]]> Comment on she works hard for the money by Amanda http://www.soulographer.com/she-works-hard-for-the-money/comment-page-2/#comment-9132 Amanda Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:18:09 +0000 http://www.soulographer.com/?p=1435#comment-9132 Being a “part time” photographer I wanted to research how to get started before I started it was a good thing I did – I learned through community boards that pro photogs regretted the way they started up and they have be “re-born” once they felt their portfolio was good enough to raise prices everyone went away and they had to start all over. So I took that information and decided I wasn’t going to work for free and I would set my prices to what I want when im “good” and ready to charge some money and the cut it 50% and call it a “Portfolio Building Discount” that way my prices are already out there and people will know when they come back it won’t be as “cheap” as last time and they will have already went through all my “regular pricing info” I would suggest to anyone starting out to stop working for free – come up with pricing you want to make when your work is fine tuned and treat it like a goal! Being a “part time” photographer I wanted to research how to get started before I started it was a good thing I did – I learned through community boards that pro photogs regretted the way they started up and they have be “re-born” once they felt their portfolio was good enough to raise prices everyone went away and they had to start all over. So I took that information and decided I wasn’t going to work for free and I would set my prices to what I want when im “good” and ready to charge some money and the cut it 50% and call it a “Portfolio Building Discount” that way my prices are already out there and people will know when they come back it won’t be as “cheap” as last time and they will have already went through all my “regular pricing info” I would suggest to anyone starting out to stop working for free – come up with pricing you want to make when your work is fine tuned and treat it like a goal!

]]> Comment on studio showcase by Brenda Hall http://www.soulographer.com/studio-showcase-3/comment-page-1/#comment-9131 Brenda Hall Wed, 25 Jan 2012 02:31:38 +0000 http://www.soulographer.com/?p=1507#comment-9131 I love this studio. Thank you for sharing I love this studio. Thank you for sharing

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