For 10% of that I'd do the same but put the smile from the one smiling
shot onto any other non-smiling one the parents chose. :-)
On 5/24/2011 6:20 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> A friend of a friend of a friend had some family shots done by a
> photog who won a portrait of the year comp. a few years back and
> trades on that. I saw the pix - family in the park. Thirtysomething
> couple, three kids about 6, 4 and 2. All a bit ordinary, but the
> little kid looked a bit gormless in most shots and intellectually
> handicapped in others - and these were the 'keepers'. And no, she
> isn't challenged in any way, I'm told - she was just not smiling.
> Only had expression in one shot. The fee - $4.5K! The lure - one as a
> 16x20 on canvas, stretched. Mum is delighted. I suspect that half of
> us on this list, at least, could have done better given a nice family
> and a sunny day. Time to rethink the business plan?
>
> Andrew Fildes afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 24/05/2011, at 10:17 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>> Last evening I was hired to shoot a portrait of a two year old.
>> Babies and toddlers can be a challenge and this was no exception. I
>> earned my sitting fee. We did it outdoors at a particular park. My
>> hitrate with photographing humanoid-shaped alien lifeforms is never
>> all that great to begin with, but she made it especially ornerous.
>> My total shoot quantity was just under 250 pictures.
>
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