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Originally Posted by charly
When you screw your supplier into the ground on price you are left with a supplier working on a tight margin, limited resources and not able to invest. He is also more likely to screw up, let you down and not break his balls to put things right and keep your custom.
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See you don't know what the real deals are that go on behind, you are simply ASSUMING the deals. See someone may not book a whole day's shoot but book a tiny fraction of the days shoot. Someone may not worry to get magazine quality but quality just good for him in his niche (trust me not everybody wants the best quality, some may actually require the shoots to be amateur/unprofessional). Some can give up the print rights, dvd rights to the shooter or make those commission based etc. etc. Shooter can also reserve time from the day's shoot for semi-exclusives and non-exclusives in different niches. Now, shooter can make many such deals and end up with much more than >$1500 per shoot yet make his clients happy cos clients don't always care what the shooter made in total as long as they got to pay a reasonable amount for their needs & budgets.
I used to shoot a little bit for myself and a friend of mine some time ago so i'm well aware of the costs that go in there then again it's a bit different mindset there cos when you shoot for your own sites you don't think much about the behind the scenes costs cos you'd be otherwise paying many of those bills anyways (cost of business), not to mention you don't pay the same rate for every model, they can also be referred/non-referred so cost can be a bit different per shoot (again cost of business). But prob is shooting is a fulltime job by itself and so is webmastering. You gotta pick one or the other.
I agree $1500 is not a bad price for a day's shoot without any background deals but the only prob is that in my
very personal opinion, if I want czech content it'd be to save some money and not to pay the same amount i'd pay for u.s. shoots at the same token, other people's opinion can be different than mine ofcourse
