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I work for a car dealership selling Mini Coopers. The owner had "cautions" about letting me do car photography for whatever reason. He hired me as a "sales associate", and was fully aware of my photography background, yet was hesitant to let me start taking the photos of the new Mini's on the lot. Now that I'm actually doing the photos, and using strobed light, he seems to be pretty happy. I think the hesitation mostly came from the fact that the 18 year old girl that has worked for him for 9 months 'REALLY ENJOYS' taking photos of the Minis. However, she has limited photographic knowledge and only has access to a Nikon P&S from 2001.
I was SUPPOSED to do photos for the Saab/Volvo dealership in my area (I drive a Saab, so it would be fitting), but that seemed to fall through. I was going to charge them 10 dollars per car (because I hadn't done car photography at that point, I'd charge them more now). And I told them I'd photograph cars if they had a MINIMUM of 3 cars per trip (it was about a 30mi drive for me, and wouldn't be worth it unless I made my gas money back).
What Bo4key said was somewhat incorrect. Maybe the car dealership that HE works at doesn't care about composition or framing, but I've imposed on the owner of the company I shoot for that better composed photos will draw more customers in. It's a fact. In 2007, roughly 33% of car sales ORIGINATED online, that number has only gone up since then. It's probably closer to 50%. Putting your best foot forward and having nicely composed images with the company logo in them is important. Having a 3/4 "hero" shot as the 'default photo' is important. SOCIAL ****ING NETWORKING is important, if not the most important. I work closely with an advertising analyst from AutoTrader.com. Next on my bill is photographing a lot of Mini Coopers, and starting both a Twitter for our business, and a blog attached to our website via a subdomain.
I was SUPPOSED to do photos for the Saab/Volvo dealership in my area (I drive a Saab, so it would be fitting), but that seemed to fall through. I was going to charge them 10 dollars per car (because I hadn't done car photography at that point, I'd charge them more now). And I told them I'd photograph cars if they had a MINIMUM of 3 cars per trip (it was about a 30mi drive for me, and wouldn't be worth it unless I made my gas money back).
What Bo4key said was somewhat incorrect. Maybe the car dealership that HE works at doesn't care about composition or framing, but I've imposed on the owner of the company I shoot for that better composed photos will draw more customers in. It's a fact. In 2007, roughly 33% of car sales ORIGINATED online, that number has only gone up since then. It's probably closer to 50%. Putting your best foot forward and having nicely composed images with the company logo in them is important. Having a 3/4 "hero" shot as the 'default photo' is important. SOCIAL ****ING NETWORKING is important, if not the most important. I work closely with an advertising analyst from AutoTrader.com. Next on my bill is photographing a lot of Mini Coopers, and starting both a Twitter for our business, and a blog attached to our website via a subdomain.