Sell paper back copies or provide digital copies

[Schizophonic]

I think I just shot myself in the foot with this but how do you guys get that extra £££ with your photos?

I'm doing a wedding for a friend in the next couple weeks and we agreed that I would provide 30 processed shots for her to keep (digital) and if they wish to have more than photos they will need to pay an extra price.

Should my business model just be that they can choose which ones they like and I'll print hard copies for them only? That way it will stop them from printing and giving them to their friends and family?

 

[Schizophonic]

Thanks for the informative advice Raymond, I know it sounds like common knowledge but I never really thought about how I was going to give the final copies to the bride and groom.

The bride is a very good old school friend of mine and I'm charging her a low price and also to help build up my portfolio.

As we verbally agreed what was to be arranged, the only way I can possibly recuperate any thing from this situation is (to like you said) keep the print size large enough for 7x5 prints.

If they wish to have something larger then I will have to give them an option of either buying the digital copy for reprinting purposes or go and have them printed before handing over the copies.

Also with your digital copies you provide do you put your company logo on it?

 

[Schizophonic]

If you've already agreed on what you're going to provide I don't think it's fair to change what you're going to give. I'm sure she would be pretty annoyed if she receives a bunch of low res photos with a watermark on, and is expected to shell out again for decent prints.

I think you have the wrong concept of it all, I said I will provide her the digital copies but nothing else was mentioned about how big they were or if she could have them printed.

But as you mentioned, she is a good friend of mine and I do want to get my career off to a good start so I'll let her print as many of she wants and hope from the back of it they will contact me in the future for more work.