Thanks all. I will try to answer all of your questions.
Ralph-Well, as I clarified, we did get almost every team done much sooner than we originally planned, so actual shooting time was less than 11 hours, but we were there for close to 12 hours 8am to 8pm. I am fortunate that the community park I shoot for is where my kids played and a lot of parents knew my work and were glad I was doing there photos, so my marketing was a not much for this particular shoot. The league does the marketing I guess, by advising the teams of the date, their shoot time, etc. I put out a price list in advance so they all had that before coming and most came prepared. Since things were really moving smoothly with acceptance of payment and selection of packages, I could somewhat quickly shoot a few poses and let the parent (mom-sometimes the child) pick the image. I did offer a template type team composite that the teams will put in the youth homecoming program and most teams bought that. I use Lumapix to create the template and from there it is pretty quick to add the girls name and other text. As for work flow, we had one guy (another capable shooter-but a Nikon guy- ) taking the orders, handling upsale type questions, another guy (another Canon shooter) lining the girls up and sending to me, telling me what I needed pose-wise and then recording chosen image file numbers on their order form. Hope that helps, if not let me know
Jeff-it was set up in a room in a smallish community park building, but plenty of room for tables, and photo area as well as a staging area. Setup was about 45-it was our first time doing it like this and I\'m sure we will cut a few minutes next time out.
We hauled the stuff mostly in the back of one of my partner\'s truck and some in the back of mine. We probably could have fit it all in one. Oh-both trucks are 4-door type, so room inside for the expensive stuff and room in the back for the flooring.
Madmat-no, not really, but many were shoot loose enough that I might be able to crop it vertically, but have not played with that idea. I\'ll look at it.
Aug 07, 2011 at 08:23 PM
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) taking the orders, handling upsale type questions, another guy (another Canon shooter) lining the girls up and sending to me, telling me what I needed pose-wise and then recording chosen image file numbers on their order form. Hope that helps, if not let me know