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Photography Business Pricing

Journal Entry: Tue Apr 28, 2009, 8:03 AM
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I'm at school on school computers right now, so I may need to cut this short.

Anyway. I'm finally starting to put together a small photography business. I've designed a trifold brochure to give out to people to give them an idea of the sort of thing I'm about, I've got my studio set up in a makeshift way, and I've even got a few prospective clients. But I'm stuck. #1 problem is that I can't figure out what to do on pricing. I know that I want it to be based partially on printing (obviously) and on additional options (things like on location shooting, Photoshop effects and retouching, in-picture frames, special printing, etc). I'm thinking that I could do like a $15 sitting fee at the time of the shoot, and an additional price determined later depending on the printing and options they chose. But does anyone have any suggestions? Am I aiming too high? Too low? What should I charge for on location and retouching and that sort of thing?

The second problem, much smaller, is that I'm not sure where I want my web domain to be. Should I keep it on DeviantART, or should I create a separate website for my photo business? And if I do, does anyone have any good suggestions of a free host with a website creator that would have options for both text based pages and a photo gallery? Should I maybe just create a new DA account for portraits?

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