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<blockquote data-quote="Mike D90" data-source="post: 254497" data-attributes="member: 17556"><p>Getting your flash off the camera will cure that even if it means having a helper hold a flash mounted on a stand or monopod (with a softbox attached). Then it won't matter what orientation you shoot from, shadows will fall where you want them.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://nikonites.com/member-17556-mike-d90.html" target="_blank"></a></p><p><a href="http://nikonites.com/member-17556-mike-d90.html" target="_blank"></a></p><p></p><p>I think everyone should have one but I wouldn't use one at an event like a wedding. Need to be very mobile and a stick just slows you down.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Eye level or from only slightly above eye level. Never from below unless it is an artsy shot intended to be from lower level.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The couple needs not to know anything about what you are charging for. You aren't working by the hour. You are charging for a service and that service includes many hours of time that they never see. </p><p></p><p>You work up a price according to what they want and what you have to do to give them that. Adjust for your photography time, your travel time and distance, your editing time and uploading time, online storage if you have a website you pay for, CD/DVD media if you use that as a delivery method and it should all come to a price you can live with and make a profit.</p><p></p><p>If I go out and shoot 300 shots of birds and nature shots I know that I am looking at maybe 8 to 12 hours, minimum, of time transferring them from camera to computer, going through each image to weed out the crap, editing and adjusting the keepers, final cropping and then uploading them to my website. Large TIFF files take hours to upload if there are a lot of them.</p><p></p><p>Wedding shots would take even more time because you want them perfect removing any small dots or specs or correcting skin tones and textures/blemishes. You may spend several hours a night for a week editing all of your keeper images to make them perfect.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mike D90, post: 254497, member: 17556"] Getting your flash off the camera will cure that even if it means having a helper hold a flash mounted on a stand or monopod (with a softbox attached). Then it won't matter what orientation you shoot from, shadows will fall where you want them. [URL="http://nikonites.com/member-17556-mike-d90.html"] [/URL] I think everyone should have one but I wouldn't use one at an event like a wedding. Need to be very mobile and a stick just slows you down. Eye level or from only slightly above eye level. Never from below unless it is an artsy shot intended to be from lower level. The couple needs not to know anything about what you are charging for. You aren't working by the hour. You are charging for a service and that service includes many hours of time that they never see. You work up a price according to what they want and what you have to do to give them that. Adjust for your photography time, your travel time and distance, your editing time and uploading time, online storage if you have a website you pay for, CD/DVD media if you use that as a delivery method and it should all come to a price you can live with and make a profit. If I go out and shoot 300 shots of birds and nature shots I know that I am looking at maybe 8 to 12 hours, minimum, of time transferring them from camera to computer, going through each image to weed out the crap, editing and adjusting the keepers, final cropping and then uploading them to my website. Large TIFF files take hours to upload if there are a lot of them. Wedding shots would take even more time because you want them perfect removing any small dots or specs or correcting skin tones and textures/blemishes. You may spend several hours a night for a week editing all of your keeper images to make them perfect. [/QUOTE]
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