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Specialize On Portrait: If you don't specialize on portrait in children, but shoot all ages, you should still keep 12 years as the top limit for shooting children at the baby-picture rate and with baby-picture technique. Teen-agers should be photographed as adults, with regular portrait methods and at the regular portrait rate of pay for the photographer.On the other hand, there are amateurs who shoot wedding pictures for nothing, or for a few dollars to cover the cost of film, paper, and flashbulbs.
Many specialists in baby pictures set age limits for the subjects which they'll accept. Infants younger than six months are not good subjects and neither are adolescents. You might bend your policy to accept the very young babies occasionally, to give a customer special consideration, but you should hold pretty firmly to 12 years as the upper age limit.
If you don't specialize on portrait in children, but shoot all ages, you should still keep 12 years as the top limit for shooting children at the baby-picture rate and with baby-picture technique. Teen-agers should be photographed as adults, with regular portrait methods and at the regular portrait rate of pay for the photographer.
For the beginner without elaborate studio facilities and the ability to produce sets and properties on short notice, it is a good idea to specialize on portrait on pictures which he can shoot on location. Such pictures might be industrial or agricultural or scenics or architectural, all of which are discussed in separate chapters of this book, or you might specialize on portrait in showing household items in use in the home. |
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