Offering portrait services

12 years 11 months ago #52336 by C4rl
Do you ever get upset when you offer your portrait services to a family member, friend, coworker...someone you know. And they tell you they only go to retail studios because the studios are cheap and it's all they can afford. (So they go to Walmart etc..) but then for the "special" portraits, they have a professional photographer take their portrait on location. This photographer of course cost way more then you.

How do you react? Would you say something? especially when you are trying to get your foot in the door of the portrait business.


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12 years 11 months ago #52347 by Scout 4x4
When I first started photography, I did portraits and I had the same thing happen to me, more then I can count. I remember when I was in my 20s, my best friend from grade school, I ask if I could take a portraits of him and his wife. Sure no problem. I charge them, but it was nothing back then compare to now. I like the portraits, so did my friend and his wife. Then, they had a baby. The wife tells me, she wants to get the family portrait taken at Portrait Innovations. I was a little upset, but I understand, as it was a newborn and she wanted nice clean white background newborn shots. We had plan I would take the child's 1yr old portraits, the whole nine yards including the typical cake smashing shots. The child turn one, and what happen....they went to a "pro" photographer who had a studio. I remember, my friend told me the whole one yr old portraits cost around $400. I confronted the wife (as it was her idea this whole time), in the end, she told me, she never liked my photos to begin with. :(


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