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Originally Posted by Jared
I'd pay a person a day rate of $250 to get me a few hundred photos with a digital camera. I'd package them up myself and sell them if that were my business model. Lots of ways to approach this niche business because no one is doing it.
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Well, today Jesse (the photographer) and I went out on our first shoot for
EZ Royalty Free and came back with a bunch of pictures to work with... the good news is we have started the process... of course, for about a days worth of work, I am not so sure we have anywhere near 150 photos that we would consider "stock quality". We do have a lot, but we will need to have many more days of shooting to accomplish what we are trying to. I guess my point is, I do not think it is possible to pay a photographer a day rate of $250 and come up with all of the images you would want....
What I am thinking of at this point, for real estate photos, is three different categories, one exteriors, one interiors and one design elements (select shapes and designs from a house that are not pictures of a complete room, etc). Depending on the resources we find to shoot, we could have more then one cd in a particular category and we could possibly have a cd that has some from each category. What do you think Jared, would this type of strategy work.
We still need to come up with a pricing strategy... my guess is we will have prices that are dependent on how difficult and costly images are to get. For example, we are near the beach (sort of) and can easily come up with a set of panoramic nature shots in a day or so. That will obviously not be the case for the real estate photos. Of course, it will be easier to sell at a more moderate price if we know we will be selling a bunch of them.
I will update the progress on our website and try to include some photos I took of us taking the images... I am an amateur, so I can give my pictures away free... hahahaha