I AM A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER!!!!!!!! [LOL]

[A.P. Photography]

i see what your saying but if he wants to go thru all the trouble for $500.00 then let him. like you said about painting a car for $250.00. if someone wants to do all the work for that little bit, thats on him/her. i would not do it but i would not be mad. there's always someone cheaper and better but thats just life. the way your pictures look. you should be doing it for a living.

Ok, perfect example. You said he should be doing it for a living so let me present a real world scenario.

You are planning a wedding and have alloted $1500 for the photographer but during the initial ordering your fiance blew the budget for something and you have to make the money up somewhere. You have looked at Chad's work and like it and his price for a basic wedding shooting only the ceremony is $1500 and includes 500 images edited on a cd ready for print. She finds a photog on CL that will shoot the entire wedding and reception all day and include all the shots with prints, a cd, and an album for $500. The CL photogs shots are "OK" where as Chads shots are "Very Good". Which one do you think will get the job?

[CHADbee]

Ok, perfect example. You said he should be doing it for a living so let me present a real world scenario.

You are planning a wedding and have alloted $1500 for the photographer but during the initial ordering your fiance blew the budget for something and you have to make the money up somewhere. You have looked at Chad's work and like it and his price for a basic wedding shooting only the ceremony is $1500 and includes 500 images edited on a cd ready for print. She finds a photog on CL that will shoot the entire wedding and reception all day and include all the shots with prints, a cd, and an album for $500. The CL photogs shots are "OK" where as Chads shots are "Very Good". Which one do you think will get the job?

not me!!! that happens alot, my little sister spent to much on flowers or some bullshit and were not able to hire the photographer they had talked to at $1500. i ended up coming in doing wedding for a manfrotto 055xpro and compact ballhead if she didnt have me she would have been looking for that $500 wedding photographer

seams like we have this same discussion about pricing in 2 different threads huh LOL

i had a shoot this past sunday, 11 person family shoot, 30 hi res images with a print release form(i know im fuckin myself doing that, from now on im doing prints, no print releases) and half the family had something come up so i only had 6 people and cut my price in half. that hurt when it came to paying bills that are due on the 1st of the month but thats the exact reason why depending on photography to pay bills it is nothing but a dream!