Plea For Help

[jennythereader]

Would anyone out there in internet-land be interested in giving me a hand with my Etsy shop? I need someone to take pictures of my merchandise. I'm just... not very good at taking close-up pictures of relatively small things, and I don't enjoy that part of the Etsy process very much.

I will pay you for your time and effort, with either a flat fee or a percentage of my sale price. We can figure out the exact details later.

Comments

[medelle.livejournal.com]

Works for me! :)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Well the more local friend who expressed interest hasn't gotten back to me, so if you're still interested lets talk logistics and compensation.

[medelle.livejournal.com]

I'm cool with that, unless you want to wait a little longer.

So question, do you need me to do any of the mailing of items for you, or just photos? I don't mind necessarily, I just didn't think to check.

Oh and I never thought to check, but I'm assuming you just need digital photos that can be uploaded easily?

As for compensation, I'm not sure what to say because very frankly, I feel like you're the one who this is the most hassle for. I mean you have to drive 3 hours and drop off the stuff and all.

(I know, I'm a lousy business person. LOL)

Anyway, let me know what you think is fair in terms of your travel costs etc and maybe a little more of exactly what you're thinking you want someone to do.

Hey, if nothing else, I'll maybe get to meet another LJ person. :)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

I've got about 15 items that need pictures, and will need 5-6 pictures of each of them.

How long do you think it would take to do that many? (75-90 pictures total.) I can do any necessary cropping and re-sizing myself, really I just need someone who is better than me at lighting and camera angles and things like that.

[medelle.livejournal.com]

Hmm.... I'm not sure exactly how long that would take... I would guess several hours. There's setting up each item, getting the lighting right, making sure the picture is right, etc.

I could always do a few, send them to you, see what you think and kind of go from there.

Does any of this make sense or sound reasonable? I've never done this before so I'm guessing purely.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Do you think you could do a couple of sample pictures of some random thing from your house? (A book, a mug, anything else that's fairly small and simple.) That would give me an idea of what sort of pictures you'd take of my stuff.

[medelle.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's not a problem.

It won't be until Weds though, if that's OK. I'm out all day tomm and about to sign out for the night.

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

Whenever you get a chance.

[medelle.livejournal.com]

Cool beans.

Will probably be Weds. I'll let you know when I've got em and we can go from there.