Sydney Trip

First Stop was at a wedding/portrait place GM photography.

Gramham runs an amazingly successful photography business doing weddings and portraits some of which are celebrity wedding as he has the high market of the wedding market charging up to $20 000 per wedding. A short stop but a good one learning alot about how many photography teams they have and how they do business but the main thing i got out of it was about keeping yourself interested about photography by always learning.

2nd stop

White house

This Studio was a great little advertising studio right in the city, they seem to get alot of business with advertising campaigns and still remaining a very relaxed and fun environment.

It would have been good to see more of their work and have a bit more a tour of the studio and upstairs production room.

3rd and last stop

SUN STUDIOS

This is the best place in the whole of sydney =] It has 6 amazing studios, hire and sales. Although everything is really expensive it is very amazing to see all the new canon and Broncolor gear such as the new power box worth $14 000. Also the Para umbrella thing was amazingly huge and cool.

We then stayed the night at star city casino wooooo

Geoff Comfort

This talk wasn't the greatest talk but i still learnt a few things about architecture and arial photography. I dont think he really wanted to be there very much and seemed to be a bit of a cranky man but still had its ups.

I really like his arial work and some of his architecture was amazing. I cant wait to do the arial workshop with him as i believe his arial work was his strongest and i could really learnt alot from him.

Ben Kopilow / Fushion

Ben Kopilow had a very good talk with us about wedding photography and how he got to his point in his wedding photography business.

He is very successful within the wedding industry charging up to $13 000 per package.

A few hints to being a successful photographer with in the wedding industry is to

Belive in yourself

Dont undercharge

Inform ur clients about the pricing and the hidden expenses

Dont rely on reprints

Dont give away negs

He offers 5 packages:

1. $2,500- He gets assistant to do this

2. $3500 - ditto

3. $5700 – with basic album

4 $8500 – MOST PROFITABLE

5. 12,950 – incl negs

Lindy Holly Photogrpahy

Our teacher Lindy Holly Talked to us about her own photography business. She does mostly weddings and portraits.

She talked alot about how she started out and the path to how she is where she is now. Also the importance of updating ur blogs and websites etc.

She makes hand made wedding albums as this is where the money is within weddings. as she charges $4500 for just the album

Then Lindi went through a long checklist for setting up a business such as:

What u need:

ABN- ato.gov.au/

GST reg? (have to if earling >$75,000)

Business name rego (www.ors.act.gov.au)

business bank a/c

contact info: phone no, email, postal address

If partnership - agreement of how to split up .

Reg business - dont have to if just your name

Domain name - web hosting

website blog, facebook?, twitter?

Branding your style; your uniqueness, logo, business cards, brochures

Portfolio preservation (eg album; CD; portfolio case;