[Tango-L] Professional video & photography services at milongas/festivals

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Sorin.

Did you seriously expect people to reward you financially for coming in and
ruining their night?

What you are doing/suggesting is intrusive.

Regards,
Neil


On 8/11/07, tango at bostonphotographs.com <tango at bostonphotographs.com> wrote:
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> As some of you may know, I am a passionate photographer and in the last
> few months I covered a few festivals and milongas (you can see the results
> on my website under EVENTS). I have a 9-5 job, as a computer programmer
> but I'm getting to a point where I'd like to stop doing that. As such, I
> put some thought into becoming a full time photographer. Part of that
> research was to see if one can combine tango with photography and try to
> make some money (not necessarily make a living just by covering tango
> events).
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> So for a few of the festivals I covered, I offered prints for sale, at
> what I thought would be a reasonable cost ($3.75 per 4x6 print).
> Alternatively, I also offered the full resolution files for a similar
> cost. While I was not expecting much, I was quite surprised to see that
> among the three festivals I covered (Alternative in Providence, Yale in
> spring and Boston in June), only ONE person purchased 3 prints. That's it.
> I was wondering if anyone cared to comment on that. Is this what you
> would've guessed? I know I would certainly pay to have some good shots of
> myself. One reason I can think of is that people could see (and download)
> a decent size picture from the web for free and apparently that is good
> enough for most people.
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> To try to clarify what kind of future a professional "Tango photographer"
> and/or "Tango/videographer" might have, I have a few questions I would
> like to ask the community.
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> 1) If a screen resolution picture of you dancing is free to download,
> would you have any interest in a 4x6 paper print at $3.75? How about in
> having the full resolution file for $3.75
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> 2) If a screen resolution picture of you dancing is NOT available to
> download (but rather just a tiny thumbnail size one or a screen size image
> with watermarking covering most of the surface), would you have any
> interest in a 4x6 paper print at $3.75? How about in having the full
> resolution file for $3.75
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> 3) I was thinking about offering (at festivals and/or milongas) a service
> to record video of the patrons dancing (on demand). It would work like
> this, the interested party would come see me, pay a fee (per song), and
> we'd agree on timing. Then I would record them dance with their favorite
> partner (using a device that allows me to film from a height of 12-15feet,
> which would allow me to track them at all times). They would then get a
> DVD at the end of the evening with a high quality recoding. The price I
> have in mind right now would be $10 per DVD + $10 for each song recorded.
> So to have a full 3 song tanda recorded, the fee would be $40. If one more
> DVD (with the same content) is needed, for the other partner, it would be
> $10 extra. Is this something you would be interested in? Do you find the
> price: too high, low, about right? An example of a recording I made is
> here :
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> http://youtube.com/watch?v=tATLum7aDCc .
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> Obviously the quality the youtube video is abysmal compared with the
> original file which the customer would get.
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> I would appreciate any thoughts you might have on this issue.
>
> Cheers
>
> Sorin
> my photography site: http://www.bostonphotographs.com
> my milonga review site: http://www.milongareview.com
> blog: http://sorinsblog.blogspot.com
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