how much would you pay an amateur photographer?

[Rory786]

Hi

I'm a keen amateur photographer, my camera goes everywhere. I would love to do it on the side. I love photographing family and children. Posed and candid.
Would you hire an amateur to do mini photoshoots of your children in the local park. Session will be around 15-20 mins long.

How much would you be willing to pay and what would you like for the price (prints or CD)

It will be on a basis of if you don't like the pictures, you don't pay.
Many thanks in advance

I wouldn't pay for the shoot, but would pay for any images I like, either physical prints or the digital copies.
Wouldn't want to be charged too much though, around £6-£8 for a 5"x7" print.

You may have the best intentions, but your business model sounds creepy.

I'm in a similar position to you, but I have done a few profession jobs ( weddings etc). I offered 20 people a free shoot and included all of the images via Dropbox - I didn't want to make money at this point, it was the experience I was after!

britbat23: is it because I said I take my camera everywhere?! I love taking photos of my children, my shelves are heaving with albums.

When I said I love taking photographs of family and children its because I believe thats what I am better at. I find landscape/food/nature photography really dull!

My friends and family say I take lovely photos, I'm wondering if I can charge rather than do it for free.

If you are charging, then you are not an amateur. Amateur means you do it for the love of it.

I wouldn't pay for the session unless it was a well thought of photographer with excellent reputation, reviews and examples of their work.

If you want to do it as a business, I would forget about money for a couple of months...set up
a Facebook page for your business and offer a free session with completely free photos by email to the first who message. Then do 10 or so of these, get lots of reviews and comments for people and make sure you keep the copywright so you can use those images to advertise.

If they're good, you'll have plenty of people willing to pay after that.

My friend had a set amount of prints that would be bought at the end of a shoot with friends and family discount for any extras, enlargements etc. A bit like when you get the set from a school.

You can't just sell one or two after a shoot as it all takes time and you'd be working for tuppence, but by selling a little pre-agreed pack you can judge how long to spend on the shoot and make it pay for itself, with an added purchases a bonus.

She used a room at home as a studio so that it was a small but professional set up. She built her whole business on word of mouth.

If I liked the photos and could have them all on a disc I would happily pay £60.