One Shot Wonder

Ah yes, I remember the days when I was doing product photography for our local fashion industry.  I lasted a year and a half and had to drop the whole thing. Between personalities and the lack of respect I dropped it from my offering. 
 

Glad you are doing it though and producing some great images. 

14 hours ago, Andrew L (gryphon1911) said:

Ah yes, I remember the days when I was doing product photography for our local fashion industry.  I lasted a year and a half and had to drop the whole thing. Between personalities and the lack of respect I dropped it from my offering. 
 

Glad you are doing it though and producing some great images. 

Thanks Andrew. If it talks back to me I usually don’t photograph it.  Unless it’s at an event.

Since the start of the year I have been thinking about changing the services I offer. I am at my happiest professionally when photographing property. I get to see some incredible homes, meet interesting people and the work doesn’t stress me out. People love the work I do for them.

Product photography, on the other hand, is almost always problematic, mainly because clients have no idea how to set out a brief. They also have little notion of what is involved in setting up a shot like the one above. There will inevitably be a client who sees the shot you spent hours making and then says that they want the angle slightly different. And then you start again. So from now on I no longer offer a “price per photo” model like I used to. All product shoots are billed by the hour (with an estimate of effort upfront) and there is an editing fee per image delivered. And they pay in full upfront before I begin the job, unless it’s a big one where a 50% deposit is asked for. This will sort the wheat from the chaff in short order when it comes to product work. 

I recently had my first 1 star “Google review” from a “client” who didn’t like this approach. Called me unprofessional when I told her that I wouldn’t photograph her glass coffee tables in her factory within the hour that she wanted to book me for. This simply adds more disdain from me onto the vile company that is Google, who will not remove the “review”.