Pricing for Triathalons/Bike Races

Robin Usagani · Mar 20, 2014

It was like lining up livestock. Thousands of people go trough the finish line and we had lanes with photographers. So lets see.. Denver marathon has about 14000+ participants (small compared to other big cities). Lets just say we have 7 photographers shooting the finish line.. that's about 2000 runner per photographer (some people pose together, some do several poses, some dont want pictures). On the top of that you shoot bunch of different groups in the morning before they start running and action shots. The finish line is funneled to go to the photographers to make sure people take photos. I really dont know how many I shot but I filled up at least 1 card and we shot smallest JPEG. I shoot to achieve perfection. Shooting like this (no thinking whatsoever) and knowing the result will be only good enough to be printed on 5x7 is not very appealing for me. They know which photo is taken by which photographer and they have a point system. If your shoot vs. photo purchased ratio is good and your shots/hr is good, they will keep contacting you for future events.

Steve5D · Mar 20, 2014

Robin Usagani said:
Shooting like this (no thinking whatsoever) and knowing the result will be only good enough to be printed on 5x7 is not very appealing for me. They know which photo is taken by which photographer and they have a point system. If your shoot vs. photo purchased ratio is good and your shots/hr is good, they will keep contacting you for future events.

Sounds like easy money to me.

And, despite what you say, Robin, there's no way in Hell you filled up a card shooting small JPEG, unless you were using a really small card. Every event similar to this that I've shot, the smallest card I've been handed is 8GB.

Again, it's the whole exaggeration thing. It doesn't work...

Robin Usagani · Mar 20, 2014

I see.. so you are telling me i am a liar. Yes.. it was probably a very small card and was not 8GB. I remember the moment I had to change the card. The cards were probably really old. I remember I had to put it in a little envelope, write down the card serial numbers and my name.