Lauchlan Toal Offline Upload & Sell: Off
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Oh man, I do yearbook stuff and they print so small that ISO 6400 on my D5200 looks as clean as ISO 100. I'm a student doing it for practice and fun, as I suppose in Canada people don't care about highschool sports as much as in the States. So, my advice may or may not be completely valid - I'm not totally sure what people like in America.
I would say that a yearbook wants at least one game covered per sport, plus important games like finals, plus extra coverage of the popular stuff like football. So, between soccer, football, hockey, basketball, lacrosse, tennis, badminton, track and field, and a few others, I'd assume 15-20 games. Maybe. If you're just doing field sports, perhaps 10-15. I could be way off here, depends on the school. Anyways, that's around $500 if you go by the informal arrangement. Sports don't pay, so that seems like a reasonable amount to me. I'd even be willing to go lower, and go to a few extra games for a soon to be outlined reason... Selling photos to parents. If you have a Smugmug or Zenfolio or whatever where you can upload a bunch of shots from a game and have parents come on to buy downloads, you could make a decent amount provided you got word out to them. If you had the athletics director give kids a handout with your site address, and if you promoted yourself and handed out business cards at each game, you could be able to make some decent money with this. I've not tried this though, so it could be hit or miss depending on the region. I'd assume that prints wouldn't be in high demand, but you could offer them as well just in case. I think Smugmug automates that very well if you don't want to deal with that too much.
Anyways, I hope this helps! Best of luck with whatever you decide to do, shooting HS sports is fun enough and when you get paid for it I imagine it's even more fun.
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