Did you just wake up one day and decide "I'm going to be a wedding photographer"?
I see from your Facebook page you have less than 50 likes, both your twitter and video accounts are less than a month old, you are asking what you should charge, and you are commenting on all the "need a second" posts....
It is impossible to figure out what you should charge for your specific area based on this wide mass of photographers from all different countries. And, if you are the experienced wedding photographer you claim to be, why are you even asking?
It seems to me like you are running a scam, the kind where someone steals other photographers pictures and claim them as their own, creating a whole website of fake images. It might be harsh, but based on what I have seen from your posts today, and your Facebook page, you are not an experienced wedding photographer just dropping in the say hi.
Easy there GH. The OP may not have phrased their question well or have tons of experience, but to jump to assuming they're a photo stealing scam artist from not having a huge facebook and twitter following seems a bit excessive.
qwyjibo wrote:
Easy there GH. The OP may not have phrased their question well or have tons of experience, but to jump to assuming they're a photo stealing scam artist from not having a huge facebook and twitter following seems a bit excessive.
I'm basing this off their other postings that got deleted as well. And your right, they could be perfectly legit, but something seems really fishy to me.
The number quoted 2186$ as an average what couples spent on photography on their wedding day does not tell you, if that is enough to run a profitable business. I bet in this statistics are quite a few photographers who do weddings besides their regular job and do not necessarily charge a lot. Some couples might even asked a friend to do the photos.
It would be intersting to see how much the spending is on photography for those who hired a photographer who is doing this full-time. It should be much higher.
Sure. Getting $2000 in one part of the country could be equivalent to getting 5000 in another part of the country. Move a "$5000 Photographer" to a different market and he could only be pulling 2, for the exact same work that he got 5 for before. Move that $2000 photographer to the other guy's market and he could be making 5, with no changes to his business except the location change.
D. Diggler wrote:
Sure. Getting $2000 in one part of the country could be equivalent to getting 5000 in another part of the country. Move a "$5000 Photographer" to a different market and he could only be pulling 2, for the exact same work that he got 5 for before. Move that $2000 photographer to the other guy's market and he could be making 5, with no changes to his business except the location change.
Precisely. There are also HUGE cost of living differences depending on where you are. Making $50k per year profit? That's great if you live in rural Ohio. If you're making $50K living in NYC, you're practically in poverty.
