Re:Ask HN: Tips getting RAWs from wedding photographers?
by 1123581321 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @12:18PM
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If he front-loaded the price you wouldn't have progressed to this point in the negotiation yet. You would simply think he was an expensive photographer. And he'd have to average out the money he makes from prints/copies in the up-front price to stay in business. That would be unfair to those who don't order many.
Re:Ask HN: Tips getting RAWs from wedding photographers?
by 5555624 on Thursday June 13, 2013 @05:55AM
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> I just don't understand why he doesn't price his time and skill and use the prints as add-ons.
Is wedding photography his primary source of income? If so, it's his business model and the "standard" business model for wedding photographers for years.
Find a photographer who does something else, but does weddings on the side. Elsewhere in this thread, I mentioned getting a print of each picture and all of the negatives from the photographer at my wedding -- he was a crime scene photographer and did weddings on the side. He did not want the hassle of dealing with prints, different sizes, packages, etc.
On principle, if I am going to get pictures then I want the highest quality since one lesson I've learned is that the quality from 10 years is 1/10 the quality available today. Might as well record and store the maximum quality today since over the course of the marriage (10s of years, I hope) today's quality will be just 'average.'
My suspicion is that he plans to make profit on the prints, and he's afraid I've found a way to bypass him. I just don't understand why he doesn't price his time and skill and use the prints as add-ons.