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$50 Portrait Customer: Many specialists in baby pictures set age limits for the subjects which they'll accept. Infants younger than six months are not good subjects and neither are adolescents. You might bend your policy to accept the very young babies occasionally, to give a customer special consideration, but you should hold pretty firmly to 12 years as the upper age limit.
If you don't specialize in children, but shoot all ages, you should still keep 12 years as the top limit for shooting children at the baby-picture rate and with baby-picture technique. Teen-agers should be photographed as adults, with regular portrait methods and at the regular portrait rate of pay for the photographer.
At any given price, there is a limit to the quality of picture which you can offer (you can't deliver a carbro color print to a $25 or $50 portrait customer) and you should study your costs carefully in order to make sure that are netting a reasonable profit on each job. The cost of ma-1 terials is the least important factor in your calculations as ; to what you can give for any particular price. More important is the amount of time you devote to the job.
If you've planned your year's activities as we suggested, then this job will be automatically done for you.
If you want to increase your wedding business in June and August, you know how early to plan for it. If you see growth in your portrait business, then you can expect a good part of this business to come around the holidays in December. Summer months are big months for a photographer who specializes in outdoor portraits in customer's homes. |
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