About: Darwin Drake
Profile:
Darwin is starting his 32nd year as a photographer. He has been a customer and CCS’s employee since 1977. Has owned hundreds of school graduations in five states, eleven campus Party Pics locations, three studios that serviced weddings and seniors, and booked and photographed college and high school football teams. He has photographed senior class groups, proms and school portraits from elementary to college yearbook. Aside from running two Six Flags photography locations taking over 800,000 photographs in one summer; he has photographed Presidential parties, Kentucky derby parties, and Mickey Mouse parties. He considers himself the “Party Pics King”. He still shoots hundreds of images each month.
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Why Shoot Reunions?
A carefully selected 25th Reunion can easily yield a profit of $800 to $2,500 for one or two days of photography. That makes them well worth doing at a time when other business is slack.
Reunions typically occur in middle to late summer, a time when most photographers could use some additional income because there are not very many school based events or sports to photograph. Reunions can usually be photographed with one or two photographers, so they do not require hiring a large staff of photographers or production personnel.
How To Select The Ones To Photograph:
Pick out the 15, 20, 25 and 30 Year Reunions at schools that were good at the time the participants were in High School. These particular reunions have the best combination of nostalgia and high percent of attendance. Also, pick reunions that seem to be well advertised and well organized. These will most likely have the highest attendance. High attendance means that you will have an opportunity to make more money.
How and where to book events o Personnel Directors o Managers o Owners - Offer free photos for their publication needs Pricing of Events o Some companies pay for photographers to be at their functions while others do not - For those that pay fees: • $60 – $100 per camera or $60 – $100 per [...]
We must always be looking for additional photographic opportunities, but especially in the Spring as events seem to bloom as prolifically as spring flowers. A good place to start looking for these types of events is community calendars and school events calendars. Your community can produce events such plays, parades, Father-Daughter dances and car/bike shows.
