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Hi there,
I have a fashion project and I am looking for indoor locations as Georgian houses, hotels, cafes, abandon houses or any building with something interesting.
Ideally I would like to get these locations for free, but I am willing to pay as well if the place is interesting…
The shootings will be mainly indoor but I am open to ideas.
Do you have any recommendations? Any experience? Ideas? Can you offer this location?
Thanks
Efrenefrengonza wrote:
Hi there,
I have a fashion project and I am looking for indoor locations as Georgian houses, hotels, cafes, abandon houses or any building with something interesting.
Ideally I would like to get these locations for free, but I am willing to pay as well if the place is interesting…
The shootings will be mainly indoor but I am open to ideas.
Do you have any recommendations? Any experience? Ideas? Can you offer this location?
Thanks
Efrenmight be a bit out of the box but have a look on myhome.ie, there are nice period homes for rent or sale most of which have god auwful pictures, if you give the home owners a set of decent property images (in focus, with verticals correct, no lens distortion and a bit of window pull is a massive step up from what most agents produce) they migth let you do a load of additional shots as well. and it won’t cost anyone any money. but they won’t hire me then. :(
efrengonza wrote:
Ideally I would like to get these locations for free, but I am willing to pay as well if the place is interesting…
The shootings will be mainly indoor but I am open to ideas.
Do you have any recommendations? Any experience? Ideas? Can you offer this location?Hi Efren
You didn’t say what the images are being use for – but if it’s for advertising or commercial use, then you will probably need to pay something towards hiring the location.the hotel at the end of the of the sea front in bray is an amazing place to shoot,
was at a mates video shoot there recently, there has been a load of films shot there also
the commitmenst etc..i know he had to pay but im sure you could get a good rate..
it is really old and shaby.cant remember the name but its the black and white hotel at the end
you cant miss it.Thanks guys!
I really appreciate you use your time to reply.
Ashley, the shoots will be for an exhibition project for my college, so non commercial. It is interesting to know what you offer, but 500 £ per shooting is completely out of my budget :( Actually I was looking to do it for free or cheap as there is not money involve, just art :) The locations will be credited in exhibition and possible publication…
Thanks again
Regards,
Efrenefrengonza wrote:
… the shoots will be for an exhibition project for my college, so non commercial.
‘Personal use’ is the only form of non-commercial use, in my books.
efrengonza wrote:
The locations will be credited in exhibition and possible publication…
“possible publication” – that sounds like commercial use to me.
Thanks Ashley for all your information, “encouragement” and analysis of my message, but I can understand the difference between commercial and personal use. It is easy as understand the word “commerce” so I have no intentions of selling prints but to get a good body of work to get notice in the industry.
Well now you know – it’s pretty much the standard location fee rate, for commercial use, across the UK.
(£500 is usually the starting fee – it could be £1,500 or more – depending on the location, size of the property, uniqueness, etc)If you expect that a student pay 1500 £ for one day of shooting, I think you did your studies in very expensive private schools. Here is where you should understand the difference between student trying to have success and a successful commercial photographer. And as I am not a successful COMMERCIAL photographer, I cannot pay this.
Best to ask around your close friends and family then.
Not only friends and family, whom I have asked already, can help you on this, but some people do things for the mere fact of helping and not thinking only about money.
Credited … as in ‘a great place where you can get to shoot for free’
Or credited as a beautiful place to go after seeing the exhibition (cafe, pub, etc.), it is all depends with the eyes you look at it ;-)
And the mention of “possible publication” is starting to sound like commercial use here
Have you ever see the leaflets on an exhibition? that’s a publication and it is not commercial, just an example…
efrengonza wrote:
… work to get notice in the industry.
Which is call Advertising :D
Good luck with the photography course and fashion shoot – but consider doing a business course too.
That’s the best advice I can give you.two wee notes:
my first suggestion was made under the assumption that you would need to pay or pay in kind or the use as money is hard to come by payment in kind is a good option.
secondly I know 6 people who studied photography, they are all moretalented than me with a camera but I am the only one making a living and paying a mortgage from photography. it is more about business sense than photography most of the time
efrengonza wrote:
Hi there,
I have a fashion project and I am looking for indoor locations as Georgian houses, hotels, cafes, abandon houses or any building with something interesting.
Ideally I would like to get these locations for free, but I am willing to pay as well if the place is interesting…
The shootings will be mainly indoor but I am open to ideas.
Do you have any recommendations? Any experience? Ideas? Can you offer this location?
Thanks
EfrenIt’s never easy as a student trying to make money stretch and having to pay location fees feels like money wasted.
My suggestion is get out and look for your locations, ask permission – people will either say yes or no… if you do it enough odds are… eventually you’ll get a yes. People are a lot more open than you might think. Bring along your portfolio, explain it’s for collage and promise them a few print copies for help. A small cafe would be happy to let you shoot on a quiet friday afternoon and some prints for their wall would go a long way…
It’s unlikely that any one is gonna hand you a prized location on a plate. Location hunters spend most of their time on foot banging on doors and looking over fences, nothing stopping you from doing the same…
If, or I should say when you get your location – treat it with respect, clean up after you and don’t screw it up for the next person
Good luck
Thanks for your answer Tag,
That’s what I am doing and I have got already some location recommendations where people have shoot before and I am going to ask.
I have the NO already, so if I don’t ask I will never get the YES :)
Regards
Ask and the answer will either be yes or no, but a point I think you need to consider is, even if someone allows you to use their property for free, You will need insurance protection to cover yourself.models.etc as failure might cost you a lot more
Thanks for that Miki as I think you really believe what you are saying, but I think you think too much about regulations.
This is about art, not about business, not about rules… I don’t need insurance to go with people and take photos in a cafe, otherwise you will need insurance to take photos of your friends in any pub…
efrengonza wrote:
I don’t need insurance to go with people and take photos in a cafe, otherwise you will need insurance to take photos of your friends in any pub…
I would be very very very very very careful about what you’re doing here, because just off what you said there, alot of people wouldn’t even bother the time to work with you if you didn’t have insurance and that’s not me being harsh or rude…that’s the reality of it.
if you have people on a shoot in somewhere like a cafe and say there was an accident, without insurance you will get into very very hot water
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