Session fees
In Studio: $200 per hour plus GST
On Location: $250 per hour plus GST
I've struggled with the concept of charging people inflated rates for
printed photos. My father was a photographer in the days of black and
white photography. He used a Mamiyaflex. He spent hours in his
darkrooom (with me at his knee) tweaking the parameters of the
enlarger, chemicals and paper (and anything else he could) to create
beautiful photographs.
Fast forward... I've got my dad's medium format Mamiyaflex but I work mostly with my Canon EOS 1DS Mark II, the 16 mpx wonder from the boys at
Photocreative who are the best in the GTA. I'd like to keep them my little secret, but that would be selfish. Also gotta love Jim at
Headshots and Henry at
Vistek. For some jobs I dust off my old Hasselblad as well.
I
do my post-processing in the digital darkroom. I can retouch blemishes, remove age
spots, wrinkles, whiten teeth, whatever it takes to make you look
great.
It makes perfect sense to me that you should be given the disk with
your images. I'll crop, retouch and burn them all to CD. An hour
session usually produces a few dozen good shots. Sometimes more, rarely less. Then you take the CD to
the photo lab of your choice for the actual printed photos. The
cheapest you can find or the best there is. The choice is yours.
Instead of being charged 25.00 per 8x10 or more by a studio, you can
get them done at Future Shop or Japan Camera for 4.95 or so. Actors, you can get super
headshot quantity discounts at
ImageWorks
I believe that it's the way of the future.
If you'd rather be charged for the printing because you don't have the
time to do it, then I'll be happy to get it done for you, for a
reasonable fee. I can also do matting and framing.
Anne.
