Anyone wanting to sell their work or display their work needs professionally photographed images. We are all weekend warriors with our digital cameras but if you need to put your best foot forward you must seek out the help of a professional. That sounds and is an expensive endeavor. Photographers are artists and technicians. They will take many pictures to get you the two or three great images you want. Their time is worth every penny. They have spent a lifetime experimenting so you don’t have to. Here’s how one group of artists succeeded in getting professional photographs at a reasonable price.

We are a small group of artists who hired a photographer to spend an entire day shooting art in digital format. We checked his credentials carefully and sent him a written proposal. We asked him for a price for a day’s shoot and how many images we could expect to receive for that price, taking into account that we wanted 2 good images (which for him could translate into 15 or more shots) of a lot of different artwork. We took that price and divided by the number of images and decided if we could afford it as a group. We worked closely with that photographer and here’s some things that worked for us.