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Lots of nascent demand for pro photo services. Culture is becoming visual on an unprecedented scale. Two quick queries: 1. How quickly do you think you could s

Lots of nascent demand for pro photo services. Culture is becoming visual on an unprecedented scale. Two quick queries: 1. How quickly do you think you could scale this globally? Customer requests a shoot on a volcano in Greenland for example ;) 2. Why not provide a full service solution? That is not just the photographer, but for a fashion brand shoot for example, all the models, hair, makeup, location, catering, legal clearances and the other 100 things I am not anticipating ;)

louisswiss 11y ago
Thanks, we agree! Even more importantly, the definition of 'pro photo services' is changing rapidly from high prices, fixed retail location to high quality, style & subjective fit. 1. This would be awesome and hopefully we can manage it someday, however a lot of stock photo websites actually cover this pretty well already (assuming you just want custom photos of the volcano). In our experience, if you can afford to actually have your event/wedding/CV-headshots (now that would be an awesome LinkedIn profile photo) taken on location in Greenland, you tend to find shipping out your 'usual' photographer with you and putting them up in a hotel as a negligible cost ;) 2. This could be something we expand to later, but we want to focus on what we know and do best now and make it a really great service. Also, our JS plugin means we partner with companies already offering some of these services to generate free new bookings, so we don't want to alienate anybody :)
- louisswiss 11y ago
  Forgot to add that in a lot of cases (especially fashion shoots), there is more equipment needed (lighting, reflectors etc) and normally a second person is needed to 'handle' this equipment during the shoot. We are working with our photographers to give every one of them access to this service/equipment and normally one of the models will help out as the second person, keeping costs low.

louisswiss 11y ago

Thanks, we agree! Even more importantly, the definition of 'pro photo services' is changing rapidly from high prices, fixed retail location to high quality, style & subjective fit. 1. This would be awesome and hopefully we can manage it someday, however a lot of stock photo websites actually cover this pretty well already (assuming you just want custom photos of the volcano). In our experience, if you can afford to actually have your event/wedding/CV-headshots (now that would be an awesome LinkedIn profile photo) taken on location in Greenland, you tend to find shipping out your 'usual' photographer with you and putting them up in a hotel as a negligible cost ;) 2. This could be something we expand to later, but we want to focus on what we know and do best now and make it a really great service. Also, our JS plugin means we partner with companies already offering some of these services to generate free new bookings, so we don't want to alienate anybody :)

louisswiss 11y ago
Forgot to add that in a lot of cases (especially fashion shoots), there is more equipment needed (lighting, reflectors etc) and normally a second person is needed to 'handle' this equipment during the shoot. We are working with our photographers to give every one of them access to this service/equipment and normally one of the models will help out as the second person, keeping costs low.