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Response to Contemporary Wedding/Formal Portraiture?

from tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com)
John, I've started and plan to continue making formal portraits at weddings. I use Polaroid 665 pos/neg in a 600SE that images on the full sheet. Setting up a small studio (15x15 feet) at the reception, I use one lge softbox for a main, 1 grided head on the muslin background, and a full length silver cloth reflector on the shadow side. My assistant coats the prints, puts a sticker with my name, Phone #, e-mail address and a short reprint price list on the back of a folder that holds the print, and tell the subject(s) to come back in 15 minutes when the prints will be dry. They work great to get more people to step into the light. The bride and groom get a contact print of every portrait made. The first wedding was a gift to the couple, the second was $1000 the third was $1600, the next will be $2000. I have made between 75 and 110 portraits in a 4 hr party and people go nuts about it, telling me what a genius I am... very gratifying. I've posted this picture before, but I don't recall if it was on this forum, so I'll try it again. It was made at the $1000 event (an ex girlfriend... got some of that money back after all!). The next step is a brochure and a web site, there's gold in them thar hills... t

IMG SRC="http://tphotosite.homestead.com/Files/mombaby.jpg" I hope this worked (or) why didn't that work?... t

Oh yeah, family and wedding party shots are done in the "studio"... no cake in the face shots, no bouquet to the crowd and no garter in the teeth. That's for my partner (that I haven't found yet) to do, and another $1000 per wedding... any takers?

(posted 8737 days ago)

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