Hey friends! Thanks for following me. I hope I don’t disappoint.
This is a photo from my first paid job. My client didn’t want typical pregnancy photos , so we came up with a few ideas that worked for her. A lot of the photos I shot that day were with head gear and a lot of nudes (Go figure, my first paid job was taking photos of a nude pregnant lady!). All of the shots came out really well. I wish I could show all of them to you.
I was really nervous about doing this shoot. It was my first one, I just got my new camera a month before, and I’ve never really been around pregnant women all that much.
The hardest part about the job for me was setting a fee. I never really talked about getting paid to take photos before, and had no idea what to charge, or how to bring up the subject of money. It was awkward, but I managed.
I must have done something right because the client hired me back to take photos of the baby. :-)
I found this pretty decent podcast that talked about how to to work through the fear of charging. Check it out if you’re interested.
