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  1. Thank you, that totally makes sense and marking up for prints make sense. It's just I am cautious to charge more for prints. If the flat fee for the session is $400 and then on top of that they have to pay for prints at marked up prices I am concerned that they will be reluctant to do so. And these days there is so much available to people with their phones that they will be reluctant to actually book a photographer and pay him/her close to $1,0000. Anyway, thanks for the advice.
  2. Makes sense, thank you very much for replying.
  3. Hello, Marianne here. Thank you everyone who answered my questions on this forum. I really appreciate it, today I have another question: How do you charge your customers? I looked on quite a few photographers' websites and it looks like they charge PER SESSION as opposed to PER IMAGE. The average price I found is $400 to $600 for a 2 hour session (and they specify for example 50 to 70 images). However, there is also cost of printing. So do you charge the flat fee ($400 or $600) PER SESSION and then ON TOP OF THAT you PASS ON to them the printing fees NOT making a profit on the printing fee just whatever the lab charges to print you pass that on to the customer. And I guess you wouldn't charge anything for downloaded images they want to keep in digital form because you already charged them a flat fee. What practice do you find best from your experience? Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thank you, Marianne
  4. Hello, Marianne here. I am at the point where I am creating my website for clients to access images for proofing. What I was wondering is do you INITIALLY upload low resolution images into your proofing galleries on your website, then the client selects which images they intend to buy and the sizes particularly the ones they intend to keep in DIGITAL form. Then AFTER they made their selections you provide a CD or a zip file for them with high resolution images or AFTER they made their initial selection of low resolution images you ONLY THEN upload on the website the high resolution images for them to download. Alternatively you could upload high resolution images TO BEGIN WITH allowing the client to select and download images RIGHT AWAY. Which practice would you recommend? Thank you very much for your help, Marianne
  5. Thank you very much for your insight, I really appreciate it. I am a sole proprietor (which you called a sole trader) so for insurance purposes I am considered an individual. Bundling insurance is a good idea, I will look into it, thanks again.
  6. Thank you so much for replying, I could imagine surgeries can easily cost a fortune. Some brokers contacted me after I filled out my info on the insurance websites so I will talk to them tomorrow. Maybe they DO after all have some reasonable deals. Thanks for wishing me luck, I need it:)
  7. Thank you very much for your reply. $7,000 is a lot of money in my book.
  8. Hello everyone, Marianne here. I have found this forum very helpful and it has helped me already with a number of questions. For that I am very thankful, but today I have one more question. I am officially starting my photography business - registering the name, etc. This means I am now self employed. So one thing I need is health insurance. I have looked for affordable health insurance for self employed individuals and was shocked by how expensive it is. Most of the plans have premiums starting $400 per month and up. What's worse and makes the health insurance totally useless is that it has huge deductible - around $7,000 per year. So what's the point of having insurance if it will never kick in because you need to spend $7,000 per year out of pocket first. I looked at a lot of websites but got the same result. I am very frustrated. I don't think an average self employed individual pays half a thousand dollars per month with a $7,000 deductible. So I must be looking in the wrong places, there must be other solutions. I know it depends on which state you are in (I am in New York), but maybe you can help me out and point me in the right direction, websites where I can find something reasonable. Thank you so much for your help.
  9. Hello everyone, Marianne here with a question. I am in the process of looking for a provider for my photography website and I am wondering what providers do you use? The industry leaders seem to be wix and squarespace, but there are also website providers that are SPECIFICALLY for photographers such as for example "Format". I am looking, as I am sure all photographers do, to display my portfolio, but some providers also offer online store which may or may not be helpful with the process of actually selling the digital images and prints. So from your experience which providers are best? Thank you very much for your help, Marianne
  10. Thank you, that totally makes sense. I looked into several labs and some of them use silver halide, others digital printing press. I am getting my test prints from both. Will see what they look like.
  11. Hi, thank you for replying. You seem to have a lot of expertise and experience in the field, so I appreciate getting advice from you, it really helped so thank you:)
  12. Thank you very much for your reply. It seems that you and the poster above are giving me the same message - forget the printer profiles. I am learning:) Marianne
  13. Hi, thank you so much for your reply. It's nice to get a reply from a professional who made many printer profiles. My monitor is calibrated AND profiled. I used the hardware on top of the screen just as you described. Can I ask you - you said that you made a lot of printer profiles, but if the labs don't require the photographer to use and convert to printer profiles and are asking to submit sRGB then who did you make those printer profiles for? Thanks again, Marianne
  14. Hello, Marianne here with a question. I am trying to print my photos for the first time. I am planning to send them to an outside printing lab. I have calibrated my monitor so that part is taken care of. However, I am not sure how to prepare my photos for printing i.e. what to do with printer profile. I researched the issue online, but didn't find much on the subject. So here is what I understand - We get the printer (and paper) profile from the printing lab and install it on our computer. The next step is to soft proof in Photoshop using the printer profile. So this much I understand no problem. However, from what I read online it also implies that AFTER editing (with the help of soft proofing) we then ACTUALLY CONVERT our working file (which is in Adobe RGB in my case) to the printer profile using Edit/Convert to profile in Photoshop. We go to Edit/Convert to profile and in the "destination" dropdown menu we pick our printer profile. We check the box black point compensation (if needed) and pick the rendering intent (usually perceptual or relative colorimetric). Then we save the file as TIFF and we are ready to send it to the printing lab. Are there steps in the process that I am missing? Is there anything else involved? The video that I got the above information from was talking about the printing lab using a PRINTING PRESS to print, but what about if the printing lab uses inkjet printer just like the ones used to print at home, or what if the lab is using some other printing technique other that a PRINTING PRESS will the process of preparing the photo for printing on my end then be different than what I described above? I hope you can help me out with this. Thank you very much,Marianne
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