£100's for photography sessions?

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I was browsing Martin Lewis's money saving expert forum, there's a section on the amount of personal debt that people have. I was shocked to see that quite a few people owe £100's to photographers, the stories seemed similar, they went in for a free/cheap shoot, the wife/girlfriend loved the images, then the price comes in at over £1000, too expensive, but you can pay it up over x amount of years at x amount a month and you get so many images every month.

I'm assuming it's somewhere like Venture that's doing this kind of thing!
 
Yup! Sounds like a Venture kinda thing...but there will no doubt be countless numbers of independent studios in there too!
 
A friend of mine was shocked recently when I showed her an acrylic block that I had made as a sample. He had priced a shoot from Venture .........for the shoot and an acrylic block. Their price was £700.

The acrylic block cost me £40!!!!

Ok, so I would not be offering that to clients at cost, no point in running that kind of business but please! A reasonable markup! I'd be asking £100-£150 depending on how long the shoot was and the location. (yes I do understand their overheads)

No wonder if people owe them money.
 
i used to have my kids pictures done at olan mills
 
sammyd56 said:
These kind of companys target young, naive students and thrive on pressure sales. Doubletake Studios are a prime example.
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There's loads of them Skylight studios in London is one that springs to mind. My wife wins a makeover and shoot with them, but no prints. She rings to book us in, it costs £60 a head to make the booking (everytime you have to change it too), and the print prices were unbelievable.

We told them where to stick it.
 
There's a company called Cover Girls who are also quite bad for that. This stupid girl that I knew won the photoshoot and then ended up paying about £1000 for 10 8 x 10 soft focus ***** photographs. She thought she looked hot in them and they were so badly shot!
 
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