[Heath Cowart]

Further update: I can use the project manager to collect and copy to a new location as long as I don’t check the box to “Include Preview Files”. So while I can archive projects to the external Raid now, I would still like to know why I can’t include these files now when I could previously. Must be a setting…

Heath Cowart and Melinda Hendershott
Residential Photography and Video
Serving Asheville, NC and surrounding areas

http://www.residential-video.com
http://www.residential-photography.com

[Heath Cowart]

I shoot real estate video almost exclusively. I fall back on shooting time, editing time, and complexity of shots.
Heath Cowart
residential-photography.com
Western NC

[Heath Cowart]

Funny stuff, ignorance can be costly. I photograph houses for brokers. After hundreds of houses I have gotten pretty fast and I can usually shoot a house for around 150-200 dollars.
One of my best broker clients was going to have me shoot some property but the owner went ahead and had it done by some one from out of town. A few days later he showed me some images just to get my opinion. I told him that I thought they were pretty good for a full time broker who rarely ever uses a camera but you could never charge anyone for that level of quality. I personally would have thrown them all out because I would not want my name on them. On one photo the photographer had attempted to brighten the house with the burn/dodge tool and it looked like a bright finger smudge in the middle of the image. The broker informed me to my surprise that the owner had paid 6,000.00 for the images.
For that price I could have shot for him for a month straight. I know we all try to deliver the best we can for a fair price and educate our clients so they can make smart decisions. That makes us all look good in the end but good intentions are not always interpreted as such.

[Heath Cowart]

Mark

Wow, I might print this and save it for future reference.

Do you want a job in Las Vegas this spring? I don’t have any business
doing this kind of gig and another job that I started just expanded into a 3 to 4 month commitment.

I am going to reread your post in the morning to make sure I digested it all.

thanks

Heath

[Heath Cowart]

Mark

Your right and the organizer is trying to push this through on a shoestring budget which is a terrible idea in my opinion. He says he can get the hotel to provide an AV guy for 500 dollars. I am going to suggest that he hire that AV guy but make sure the audio is done correctly, then bring me in to do a side project he wants (interviews) and to do the editing.
I’m not set up to do this kind of work and I have lots of other work
piling up that I am more suited for. The organizer is a friend so he I thought I would look into it.
H