One of my soccer moms has asked me to do her sons baseball teams team and individual shots.
Lens wise i have the nifty fifty, 70-200 f/4L, and 28-135 kit, im guessing either the 50 for the 70-200 would be the way to go.
my Main concern is gonna be lighting and how to actually sell the prints.
The portraits will be done outdoors and one approach that ive seen is to use a diffuser to block out the natural sun light over the player therfor lighting is even with no shadows.
The other option is of course a flash, the problem is my 40d's max sync time is 1/200th which even at ISO 100 with aperture around 2 overexposes the photo. From what i understand your max sync speed doesnt change no matter what flash you use so is my best option just the diffuser method mentioned above?
Also how should i go about selling the prints, ive never attempted this kind of thing so im gonna let the parents all preview their kids pictures and then order prints from me. Im thinking i need to find someone with a laptop that i can borrow so they can do all their ordering on site through me. One main thing im concerned with is how do i know whos kid is who? if someone places an order how can i be 100% positive that im sending them photos of the right person?
For individuals what focus mode do you use? single shot? And where do you focus? When i did soccer portraits for my team from the waist up i kept my focus mode on ai servo and it seems like the focus was off on a pretty high percentage of them, or i would get their face in focus but their medals were oof.
Last thing is pricing, are their any guides on pricing for this type of thing? should i charge a sitting fee to the team or just prints? the Mom asked me if i wanted to do their shots because their club is too unorganized and their unable to even contact the photographer they were supposed to be contacting so its not really a favor per se.
Any help is greatly appreaciated!
(sorry admin if this should have been posted elsewhere)
