What do you think is a reasonalbe price to pay for an action, on the water, color photograph of your Sailboat? I am a Sailor, grant manager and photographer. I am thinking of starting a part time business of photographing sailboats in action. This is not an ad for business but a request for information to do an economic analysis.
Boat Photos
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When we had our boat in Rhode Island the tow company {Sea Tow?}would offer a free action shot once a year. They would tell you a day and place where their photographer would be. All you would have to do is contact the photographer on the radio and sail by. This action shot was included in the price of the tow membership. I am not trying to take the wind from your sails but thought you would like to know you already have competition. {at least in Rhode Island} Good luck, Jack
When we had our boat in Rhode Island the tow company {Sea Tow?}would offer a free action shot once a year. They would tell you a day and place where their photographer would be. All you would have to do is contact the photographer on the radio and sail by. This action shot was included in the price of the tow membership. I am not trying to take the wind from your sails but thought you would like to know you already have competition. {at least in Rhode Island} Good luck, Jack
I would like it
For those of us who don't have other racers available to take our picture, your service would be a good one. I would pay $10 or $15 for a good action shot of my boat.
For those of us who don't have other racers available to take our picture, your service would be a good one. I would pay $10 or $15 for a good action shot of my boat.
Here is a link to someone in my area that does it
Here is a link to someone in my area that does it http://www.boatpix.com/ I would not call their price reasonable though.
Here is a link to someone in my area that does it http://www.boatpix.com/ I would not call their price reasonable though.
Boat Photo
I've been trying to get peoples boat photos to copy them and inlay the photo into a dock table using all naturally colered wood, no stains and no takers yey, not even a price inquiry, Good luck
I've been trying to get peoples boat photos to copy them and inlay the photo into a dock table using all naturally colered wood, no stains and no takers yey, not even a price inquiry, Good luck
Air Photo
We just had an aerial photo done this summer. $50 Cdn for the flight and $150 for the 8x10 photo and calendar (choice of 12 pictures or so. We did not get to keep the proofs. A little pricey but a once in a lifetime shot. Ralph Catalina 350 "WOLFHELM"
We just had an aerial photo done this summer. $50 Cdn for the flight and $150 for the 8x10 photo and calendar (choice of 12 pictures or so. We did not get to keep the proofs. A little pricey but a once in a lifetime shot. Ralph Catalina 350 "WOLFHELM"
They Do It in the BVI...
They take them and post them on the internet. Then you buy the ones that you want. Obviuosly, they are protected from copying them from the internet. They buzz around in a dinghy in Sir Francis Drake Channel and fire away. The web address is posted on the side of the dink. But, on a lake, your client base would soon run out. In the BVI, there is always a turn-around of clientele. Is there a charter base on your lake?
They take them and post them on the internet. Then you buy the ones that you want. Obviuosly, they are protected from copying them from the internet. They buzz around in a dinghy in Sir Francis Drake Channel and fire away. The web address is posted on the side of the dink. But, on a lake, your client base would soon run out. In the BVI, there is always a turn-around of clientele. Is there a charter base on your lake?
Boat pics
Here is a link to fellow club memeber's website with a bunch of pics he has taken. If you d a search for "topaz" that is us on a Tue nite!
Here is a link to fellow club memeber's website with a bunch of pics he has taken. If you d a search for "topaz" that is us on a Tue nite!
Thanks
Thank you for your inputs - from the 648 hits it looks like this is subject which is on the minds of many people. I really enjoyed the photos and ideas you-all submitted. We have two really great sailing lakes - Coeur d'Alene and Pend Oreille - here in North Idaho which makes having a trailerable H26 a joy. It's not a speed rig but who wants to fly by the fantastic scenery anyway. Thanks again, Mike T.
Thank you for your inputs - from the 648 hits it looks like this is subject which is on the minds of many people. I really enjoyed the photos and ideas you-all submitted. We have two really great sailing lakes - Coeur d'Alene and Pend Oreille - here in North Idaho which makes having a trailerable H26 a joy. It's not a speed rig but who wants to fly by the fantastic scenery anyway. Thanks again, Mike T.
pretty funny
Some of the comments regarding paying for photos is quite funny. When a plumber comes to your house, the service call is around $80 before anything gets done. $10 to $15 for a photo? The printing costs that much. Helecopter flight time runs $250 per hour and up, portal to portal. A good digital camera setup runs about $4000. Add in labor to get out there to take the shot, get back and digitally process the shot and then print it up and mail it or deliver it. You sailors really ARE cheap.
Some of the comments regarding paying for photos is quite funny. When a plumber comes to your house, the service call is around $80 before anything gets done. $10 to $15 for a photo? The printing costs that much. Helecopter flight time runs $250 per hour and up, portal to portal. A good digital camera setup runs about $4000. Add in labor to get out there to take the shot, get back and digitally process the shot and then print it up and mail it or deliver it. You sailors really ARE cheap.
Making too many assumptions?
I don't think "only" $10-15 is all that funny. I was making some assumptions: first, that I would be getting a digital image that I would be paying myself to print out. Second, I was assuming that service was going to be a guy in a boat who would stand still while I sailed past him. In short, I was assuming that I would be paying someone to do something like what my friends now do for free. The value of having a pro do it is that they presumably can take a nicer picture. I agree with you totally ted that a professionally printed 8x10 (or larger) portrait taken from a helicopter merits more than 15 bucks. Third, and perhaps most importantly: you are correct: I am cheap. In reconsidering, even if my above assumptions are true, I think I would pay more than $15, but not that much more. How much do those helicopter shots cost anyway?
I don't think "only" $10-15 is all that funny. I was making some assumptions: first, that I would be getting a digital image that I would be paying myself to print out. Second, I was assuming that service was going to be a guy in a boat who would stand still while I sailed past him. In short, I was assuming that I would be paying someone to do something like what my friends now do for free. The value of having a pro do it is that they presumably can take a nicer picture. I agree with you totally ted that a professionally printed 8x10 (or larger) portrait taken from a helicopter merits more than 15 bucks. Third, and perhaps most importantly: you are correct: I am cheap. In reconsidering, even if my above assumptions are true, I think I would pay more than $15, but not that much more. How much do those helicopter shots cost anyway?
YachtShots
Not meaning to "advertise" for them, but Yacht Shots does a similar service. I have NO idea what they're prices are, but if I was still doing photography (I used to work at it for a living, a lifetime ago when we still had to use darkrooms), I'd jump on it. What they do is attend regatta's, and take a ton of pictures, then offer them to the boat owners. That would be the way to go, do a volume of business in one "sitting", instead of trying to take pictures of a single boat off a dock.
Not meaning to "advertise" for them, but Yacht Shots does a similar service. I have NO idea what they're prices are, but if I was still doing photography (I used to work at it for a living, a lifetime ago when we still had to use darkrooms), I'd jump on it. What they do is attend regatta's, and take a ton of pictures, then offer them to the boat owners. That would be the way to go, do a volume of business in one "sitting", instead of trying to take pictures of a single boat off a dock.
YES - too many assumptions
Mike, I am cheap too as when I started working the minimum wage was twentyfive cents per hour and regular gas was around fifteen cents per gallon. FYI - things have changed - the great boat pix photos out of West Palm Beach, according to their website, run $250 for one copyrighted 16 X 20 print. A digital file - one - is $500.
Mike T.
Mike, I am cheap too as when I started working the minimum wage was twentyfive cents per hour and regular gas was around fifteen cents per gallon. FYI - things have changed - the great boat pix photos out of West Palm Beach, according to their website, run $250 for one copyrighted 16 X 20 print. A digital file - one - is $500.
Mike T.
FREE boat pics
Available to anybody who sees me on the water I always have my cameria because I'm a live-aboard. I have a 10x optical zoom so you don't have to get that close either. Just give me a holler on the VHF for Dreamboat the next time your out near Kemah and if I'm out I'll shoot you Note: I don't have a helocopter so I'm just talking about a water-to-water pic.
Available to anybody who sees me on the water
I always have my cameria because I'm a live-aboard. I have a 10x optical zoom so you don't have to get that close either. Just give me a holler on the VHF for Dreamboat the next time your out near Kemah and if I'm out I'll shoot you Note: I don't have a helocopter so I'm just talking about a water-to-water pic.reember the yellow lighta and
the chemicals such as Hypo? 4 x 5 Speed Graphics and flash bulbs... those were the days my friend.....never to be duplicated in todays digital world..
the chemicals such as Hypo? 4 x 5 Speed Graphics and flash bulbs... those were the days my friend.....never to be duplicated in todays digital world..
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