jpnatale
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Hi everybody! I have a situation I'd like some advice on.
I recently booked a wedding with a girl, took her deposit, then she had the wedding cancelled. I told her she could use her deposit towards services for me for the next 1.5 years.
She recently emailed me and asked if she could set up an outdoor shoot for her and her family, as her sister will be moving away soon. It will be 3 families, with 9 people total. She wants both whole group shots and individual family shots.
I have only recently started taking on small weddings, and haven't done any charged portrait work yet, so I haven't started thinking about prices (I did her engagement session for free to get some practice, and have done a few similar things). I had considered doing something along the lines of a flat per-hour fee for shoots like this before, so I was initially just going to do that, like $75/hour or something. But the fact that it's going to be 9 people/3 groups makes me think something else might be in order.
My real question: How do you handle larger and split groups like this? Is it customary to still treat it like a single session, and just charge for the appropriate amount of time? Or should there be separate "sitting fees" or something. Just looking to see what other people do for larger sessions, not so much about how much to charge (I know, it's dependent on 19 different things).
Thanks for any help, and I'll answer any questions with information I haven't given yet if needed!
I recently booked a wedding with a girl, took her deposit, then she had the wedding cancelled. I told her she could use her deposit towards services for me for the next 1.5 years.
She recently emailed me and asked if she could set up an outdoor shoot for her and her family, as her sister will be moving away soon. It will be 3 families, with 9 people total. She wants both whole group shots and individual family shots.
I have only recently started taking on small weddings, and haven't done any charged portrait work yet, so I haven't started thinking about prices (I did her engagement session for free to get some practice, and have done a few similar things). I had considered doing something along the lines of a flat per-hour fee for shoots like this before, so I was initially just going to do that, like $75/hour or something. But the fact that it's going to be 9 people/3 groups makes me think something else might be in order.
My real question: How do you handle larger and split groups like this? Is it customary to still treat it like a single session, and just charge for the appropriate amount of time? Or should there be separate "sitting fees" or something. Just looking to see what other people do for larger sessions, not so much about how much to charge (I know, it's dependent on 19 different things).
Thanks for any help, and I'll answer any questions with information I haven't given yet if needed!