Advice needed on setting up visiting portrait business

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I am planning to offer a home visiting portraiture service in the UK. I have a canon 350d + 30d & 17-85 + 28-135 canon lenses + elinchrom flash units + a lastolite type collapsible background. I plan to take pics in the clients house, charge a suitable fee, including one free 5x7 print of their choice. I would post the pics on photobox a couple of days later, in a professional gallery, so they can tell me which one they want free and so they can buy any others. I have no laptop so can't download the pics for people to choose at the time in their house.

Can you please give me advice, comments, criticism on my plan?

Also, it's a cheek I know, but as I lack experience, if anyone could offer me the chance to shaddow or work with them briefly on a few shoots it would be great.

thanks for your comments, Alan
 
:thumbs: :thumbs: i agree do lots of pics on family and friends and build up a portfolio.

then maybe put some cards or leaflets about at toddler groups ect.

get insurance and yourself crb checked

photoguard is good for insurance

crb check needs to be done through a school or maybe your job

then you can offer to do a pre school or toddler group

hope this helps
 
a couple of different backgrouns (or at least a reversible one - black and white etc) would be a definite advantage, don't want to have lots and lots and lots of pictures in your portfolio with exactly the same background, although you can maybe use fees to do this after your first shoot.

Be prepared for different sized rooms, some small (or small spaced due to furniture) and some large so different lighting set ups will be needed. Softboxes are at the very least extremely handy when doing this as you will want to difuse the power from the lights and bouncing from brollies in a house might not be practical.

my house kit including 4 normal heads, 2 slave heads for space saving, 4 softboxes, 6 umbrellas, honeycombs, barn doors etc and a couple of large reversible reflectors, one white/silver one gold/silver.

A car with a big boot is usually handy too :) as is a sense of humour and like any task that involves taking pictures of people, a good attitude and the ability to make people relax, and laugh.
 
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