How did your meetings go? Groups? Common goals?
Determining your goals as a photographer for your business- Discussion
- Who are your clients/who's going to pay you?
- How to budget - how much money will your business need to bring in
What am I tracking
- Begin discussion of taxes and what you can “write off”
- Students will be able to determine what they can expense, the importance of keeping
- receipts and records of expenses
- Standard deductions
Intro to Pricing and Estimating - Flat Fee estimate
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Introduction to a flat fee job - a set amount of payment from the client to determine your fee, minus expenses.
- planning a shoot (make a list of things you might need)
- scouting
- sketching ideas
- researching on subject and client (what are kinds of jobs we could be doing)
- flat fee jobs vs. fee plus expenses jobs
- Work for hire vs licensing? (how is this changing right now)
- Photographers who rent their own equipment
Art Pricing:
- Unique Item vs Edition, vs As many as possible
- Painting vs Paper vs Sculpture vs Photo
- What gallery do you show at? What is the split? Why?
- How big is the work
- Residuals? WTF
- Auction record?