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Camera Genius: Your chief advantage: you can take more time, a lot more time, with each sitting. Even a Camera genius would be discouraged at trying to take really flattering portraits in the limited time allotted to each sitting in the high volume operations, and the Camera operators (they aren't even called photographers) who click the shutters in the chain studios definitely are not in the genius class.
When these people first see good pictures, as for instance your samples at a church bazaar, they are bowled over and think of the photographer as a Camera genius.
It is obvious what this can mean to you when one of the favorably impressed persons becomes later, for any reason, a buyer of photography. Your name will be associated in his mind with fine pictures and you will be the only one he will consider for his photo job.
Some of them will ask you what rates you charge. As a beginner, your best reply is: "I'm willing to accept your regular rates." These rates probably will turn out to be more than you'd dare to ask, anyway.
Unless you are a Camera genius who does all things superlatively well, and unless you have studio facilities for building elaborate sets and Lighting them adequately, you would do well to present yourself as a specialist. That's why your sample portfolio should include pictures only of the type which you do the best. |
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