Lunajen wrote in post #5936876
Where I live, everybody is becoming a photographer and repeat business is hard due to someone always undercutting. We're talking $25 portrait sessions and studio work done with point and shoots and on board flashes. but they are getting what they pay for... It is a small community and most people go to people they have know and we have only lived there a few years. I get a few weddings a year and have to cut back my prices in order to compete. Most are charging $200 to $300 a wedding; not including some of the established photographers that were already there. And one of the eastablished pros actually had to close her brick and morter shop due to the economy and competion.
And I sometimes have to travel up to 70 miles just to get some business...it is hard but I am slowly get there.
Where I live, everybody is becoming a photographer and repeat business is hard due to someone always undercutting. We're talking $25 portrait sessions and studio work done with point and shoots and on board flashes. but they are getting what they pay for... It is a small community and most people go to people they have know and we have only lived there a few years. I get a few weddings a year and have to cut back my prices in order to compete. Most are charging $200 to $300 a wedding; not including some of the established photographers that were already there. And one of the eastablished pros actually had to close her brick and morter shop due to the economy and competion.
And I sometimes have to travel up to 70 miles just to get some business...it is hard but I am slowly get there.
$200/wedding? Wow, is that like a 3-4 hour package, no processing and "superior" powershot "equipment"?
