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 Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? 
#16643894 - 08/04/12 11:13 AM (9 months, 13 days ago) |
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Do you think it is a good job to go into? Do you know anyone that does it as a job and if they make legit money?
I'm pretty sure you can at least make 800-1000 a night if you're doing a regular type of wedding.
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Anonymous]
#16645956 - 08/05/12 09:19 AM (9 months, 13 days ago) |
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I'm pretty sure you can at least make 800-1000 a night if you're doing a regular type of wedding.
That sounds like an awful lot of money. That is what they pay for pictures or what you make for shooting them?
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: DieCommie]
#16647104 - 08/05/12 02:36 PM (9 months, 12 days ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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I'm pretty sure you can at least make 800-1000 a night if you're doing a regular type of wedding.
That sounds like an awful lot of money. That is what they pay for pictures or what you make for shooting them?
Yeah, maybe more around 800 but yeah. These might be upper class weddings but that's how they go. Also my dad does very advanced picture taking and he makes tens of thousand a wedding, no joke,
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Anonymous]
#16648883 - 08/05/12 08:00 PM (9 months, 12 days ago) |
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My stepdad is an amature photographer (although pretty good, he's been published in several calenders..)..
Anyways, he wants to get into doing weddings and the like. He goes to parties at his cultural center and is able to set up a booth where he takes live pictures of couples and friends and whatever, and prints them out on the spot for $20 or so - can make $500 easily in a night, working 4 hrs.
People pay big money for that kind of stuff - especially if your good. You'd have to edit it into an easily digestable format though, so it would either be more costly or less profitable depending on how you do it.
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Anonymous]
#17149836 - 11/02/12 09:01 PM (6 months, 16 days ago) |
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DieCommie said:
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I'm pretty sure you can at least make 800-1000 a night if you're doing a regular type of wedding.
That sounds like an awful lot of money. That is what they pay for pictures or what you make for shooting them?
I'm actually starting to look into wedding photography myself. That is a lot to make in one day but its realistic. It accounts for the fact that you aren't doing those every day and for each day of that you do do, you spend the next 5 in post processing at home. Its like getting paid on Tuesday for the weeks work. That said, its still fantastic pay and if I could get one of those a month I would be doing hugely better than I am now. I would say its a great way to go. I really cant imagine being happy doing something for the rest of my life that doesn't involve holding a camera.
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Bulldogg757]
#17154693 - 11/03/12 07:22 PM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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my girl is a model and 1 of the photographers does weddings he is charging me 450.. .idk if that is a normal price but to do a wedding you need to make a full photo album edit photos its alot more then just taking pics this guys camera alone was $3000 just for the frame type thing not including the lens and then editing software and a printer unless ur gonna pay to have em printed at walmart haha a dvd writer to put the pics on a dvd which every1 wants now so.... i would say if ur willing to spend that much it could be a good gig
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Anonymous]
#17156383 - 11/04/12 12:56 AM (6 months, 15 days ago) |
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Anonymous said:
Do you think it is a good job to go into? Do you know anyone that does it as a job and if they make legit money?
I'm pretty sure you can at least make 800-1000 a night if you're doing a regular type of wedding.
I do this on the side, I make up small packages and charge anywhere from $800-$5,000 I've noticed that more people will choose the in between package as to not be portrayed as a cheap-ass. I recommend that you look into offering not only Digital Copies, and a photo-album, but a full out package. Here is what I do for the 5K wedding photo set. I hire 2 friends to video EVERYTHING that they can from either side of the room($100 each) Then It comes with 3 dvd's(Husband's side, wife's side, couple) 1 Photo-album with 500 4X6 Prints 3 8X10 prints(couple shots taken ahead of time) 1 Poster Size Print Taken ahead of time for display at the wedding. Minimum of 2500Max 3000 Digital Photos(U want to take at least 5,000 pix to make sure)(reception and ceremony combined). 1 USB flash drive containing all the edited footage and photos(Just delete the blurry and dark ones) 30 year Back up guarantee if they loose their photos or whatever happens 1 free set is just a phone-call away(ONLY DIGITAL COPIES NO PRINTS)
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: oceanofdarkstars]
#17169002 - 11/05/12 11:06 PM (6 months, 13 days ago) |
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I like that 30 year backup idea. How do you manage it? Store them in some kind of online storage?
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Bulldogg757]
#17175474 - 11/06/12 11:14 PM (6 months, 12 days ago) |
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Nope! The old way Safe with USB drives, a Burned dvd backup, and a Solid State Drive When something new comes out I transfer and keep the old one as a backup of the backup.....Its there with all my tax info and whatnot
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Bulldogg757]
#17176736 - 11/07/12 02:53 AM (6 months, 12 days ago) |
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Do people really want 3000 photos? I don't even want to deal with sorting through 500 when I come back from taking them for fun. And do you do any work on any of the photos then or just run them through automated correction? I imagine even putting your copyright logo on that many photos would take a cost ineffective amount of time if not automated.
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Re: Anyone know anything about being a videographer and doing wedding gigs? [Re: Bulldogg757]
#17178665 - 11/07/12 01:41 PM (6 months, 11 days ago) |
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Do people really want 3000 photos? I don't even want to deal with sorting through 500 when I come back from taking them for fun. And do you do any work on any of the photos then or just run them through automated correction? I imagine even putting your copyright logo on that many photos would take a cost ineffective amount of time if not automated.
I run everything auto-correct and I take tons of photos so that I can just pick out the good ones so yeah no having to edit too much. I have been looking for an auto watermark making software but I just watermark the big photos the ones they want to get blown up on 8X10 or bigger.
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