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From Karen, NY
I just finished working with a few photographers and finally put my entire portfolio together. The next day it was stolen. I lost all of my original photos. Any suggestions?
Dear Karen:
I am so sorry to hear about your book. That sounds very painful. I do have a few ideas for you. The first thing is to contact the photographers and see if you can get more copies printed up from the original negatives. Each color photo might cost you around $25, but that would be much more economical then to try and re-shoot your photos.
For the future, you might consider getting lasers copies of all of your work and then placing the lasers in your book. That way if your book is lost, you still have all the originals in a safe place.
If you are thinking of doing any re-shooting and can’t afford to hire another professional photographer here is one idea. Go to the photography class at a local college or university and ask the teacher if he or she knows of any students who are interested in getting some experience shooting some commercial shots. They can’t afford your $250 an hour fee, so you will do a trade. You will offer your services free (so they can build up their portfolio or use the sessions as a class project) and in return they will give you copies of the shots.
You can also call a few photographers and ask to see if they are working with some assistant photographers who would want to shoot with you. And last you could try looking into stock photography. As I talk about in my book you have to be very careful when doing stock photography, but there are a lot of models who greatly benefit from working with stock photographers.
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