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<blockquote data-quote="riverside" data-source="post: 173146" data-attributes="member: 14054"><p>Her question was based on morality - should she charge them anything at all and if so how much. This session is people from the same group she did before, a family, who undoubtedly discussed how much she was paid when she didn't ask to be paid. </p><p></p><p>I agree each job is different but she states she doesn't have thousands of dollars tied up in equipment she needs to recover, photography isn't her primary vocation, she has limited photography experience and wants to take pictures. That means she's having fun doing it, so why risk losing a paid shoot she can use in a portfolio if she decides to follow that path by upping her initial price (which was actually a gratuity) on her second job? Or, if its the same extended family, 3rd, 4th or 5th shoot?</p><p></p><p>All the successful businesses I'm familiar with, including photography, follow formally defined business plans. If she decides she wants to pursue it as a business, that's the time to pin down costs and desired margins to develop a fee structure. For now, she should have fun and if she can pick up $100 a session and the all important experience doing it she's way ahead of most beginning amateurs I've ever known.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="riverside, post: 173146, member: 14054"] Her question was based on morality - should she charge them anything at all and if so how much. This session is people from the same group she did before, a family, who undoubtedly discussed how much she was paid when she didn't ask to be paid. I agree each job is different but she states she doesn't have thousands of dollars tied up in equipment she needs to recover, photography isn't her primary vocation, she has limited photography experience and wants to take pictures. That means she's having fun doing it, so why risk losing a paid shoot she can use in a portfolio if she decides to follow that path by upping her initial price (which was actually a gratuity) on her second job? Or, if its the same extended family, 3rd, 4th or 5th shoot? All the successful businesses I'm familiar with, including photography, follow formally defined business plans. If she decides she wants to pursue it as a business, that's the time to pin down costs and desired margins to develop a fee structure. For now, she should have fun and if she can pick up $100 a session and the all important experience doing it she's way ahead of most beginning amateurs I've ever known. [/QUOTE]
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