Other thing - I should not put any attention to weekly magazine competitions, because as Angus and Jim has mentioned - they are not professional and not worth it. So I will go to the editors of the magazines to show my portfolio and also send emails to the magazines with my website details, CV, also one (the best) image attached to an email. It would be nice to work for magazines as Telegraph, Empire Magazine, Sunday Times, Big Issue, but at the same time I know I couldn't get a job as an editorial photographer anywhere as long as I don't have an experience. So I want to assist first.
These are the images I chose for my portfolio and I am going to print them in A4 size and have them in my folder:
As for the portfolio I am using only 8 images for now, my whole project in degree show will have at least 10 images in various sizes. The biggest problem for me was to cost my own work. I did ask for help from Sid Smallman, he said that he usually sells framed piece of work which is 16x16 inches for around 100£. I did ask my tutor Suzanne how should I price my work as well. She said that if I will have a project of 10 images in A4, I should sell each of them for 100£. I thought that it's way too much, but then I have realized that all the facilities for me would cost a lot, plus films and their processing/printing/scanning. That makes my images more expensive than really good digital photographs. So I would stick to a 100£ per A4 image, even though I am planning to have some of my images in A3 and some only 10x10cm. So I assume that A3 should be around 200£ and 10x10cm ones should be no more than 25£. I am talking about framed pieces of work. Does that sound fair enough? Also I need to add sales tax to the price which in UK is 20% payable to the government afterwards.
So that you would get an idea of what I am going to do, I have posted Rinko Kawauchi's exhibition photograph, she is the main inspiration for me with this years project and I am going to exhibit my work in similar layout and different sizes.Rinko Kawauchi |
Many photographers have other sections like "Model fees", "Assistant", "Make-up artists" and etc on their invoice, but I didn't use either of them. My invoice:
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