I’m very confident in my abilities as a photographer, and I think my prices are fair, yet I am just not able to lock in a solid confirmation from potential clients, they always slip away.
I’m a student photographer offering portraits at a University, so maybe it’s college kid cash insecurity that is the problem, but then I wonder why they even bother to DM me in the first place?
I charge $10 a photo, minimum of $60 or 6 photos. From what I’ve heard that’s about as undercut to the competition as I can go, and yet no one is interested?
I know for certain that the market for portraits exists at my Uni, as I walk past our front entrance with a rival photographer and graduate model everyday.
Reaching people has always been my weakspot. I feel like there is a network I don’t exist in.
It is more than about the money. It is about relationships. About surprising people with your images. About people being surprised when they really like the photos you have taken of them -and that it felt easy.
You need to find ways of making connections so that people start asking you to do work for them, not the other way around.
Shoot for the school paper. Shoot for the drama dept. Long lens low low angle close up action of the swimmers on the swim team. Find ways of doing things that most are not doing. Whatever your intetests are. Whatever cause you can help out on.