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Pricing for portrait shoots

Pricing for portrait shoots

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Pricing for portrait shoots

- Let's talk a minute about the P word, yeah, pricing. Now, you may not be charging for your work right now, but who knows? Get a couple good shoots, and the next thing you know that you may think about, this is not a bad way to go for a little freelance business. Helps you buy your equipment, a little extra spending money. Now a lot of photographers have a hard time with pricing and I think they tend to undervalue their work, so I have a little formula I want you to think about when it comes time for you to price a simple job like this, a portrait shoot. First off, think about your investment, your investment in yourself through training, workshops, going to college, things like that. You've had to learn your craft, you have spent time doing that. You also have an investment in equipment, the camera, the lenses, the lighting. All of those things cost you money. You spent money, so you have made an investment in your ability to do this photo shoot. So that investment should make you…

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