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Conference napalm::musclecars

Title:	Musclecars
Notice:	Noter Registration - Note 5
Moderator:	KDX200::COOPER

Created:	Mon Mar 11 1991
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	182
Total number of notes:	5467

140.0. "Life after DEC?" by COMET::BUSSARD (You Crack Me Up!) Fri Aug 05 1994 10:38

        Rob > Comet::Bussard
        CXO1-2-131
        DTN 522-2144
    
        Theoretical question for people w/dreams of life after DEC:
    
        If you like your car,  would you be interested in a nice, professional
        studio portrait of yourself and your chariot?  I was thinking along
        lines of perhaps opening a automotive studio for portraiture of people
        and their cars,  quite like what everyone does with their families
        every year.
    
        I've already shot outdoors,  several cruizes, etc.  But the sales are
        basically `dug up' from getting the folks to actually get to the booth
        at the car show,  etc.,  to look at their proofs,  and then to spend
        more cash for photos when they've already spent a bunch just
        entering the show!
    
        So,  I was thinking of ( if I'm unemployed or soon....   %^(  )picking
        up on of these cheap 3 bay gas stations that the EPA shut down locally
        due to non-compliance of dual-walled tanks,  and setting up shop.
    
        Yes,  no,  I would if....,  etc.
        Lemme' know
    
        Rob
        ** Cross-posted in CARBUFFS **

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
140.1	Click	BIGQ::HAWKE		`Fri Aug 05 1994 10:47`	13
	Rob, perzsonally I wouldn't want to be in the photo with the car (not just cuz I'm ugly either) but because the photo "should" be just the car . That said I just take my own pictures, and I'm sure alot of others do to. BUT I did see a guy had in his cube a picture of his truck that was cutout and mounted on a piece of styrofoam type material and set up in a stand. It was about 10-12" long and 3-4" high and looked pretty cool. It ws more than just a photo it was like alittle display...It was professionally done and looked great. So maybe there is a market limited only by your creativity. Dean
140.2		KDX200::COOPER	Revolution calling!	`Fri Aug 05 1994 11:39`	4
	I'd rather have a picture of the car with me IN it, with smoke pouring out of the wheel wells or something to that effect. :-)
140.3		VMSNET::M_MACIOLEK	Four54 Camaro/Only way to fly	`Fri Aug 05 1994 11:41`	12
	Dump the "professional studio" deal. Run it out of your house, have business cards printed. Take photos of folks in action with their cars (racing, car show, cruise), and offer them your card. This is common with racing events. After people know who you are and what you provide, let them know you offer portfolio quality work for sponsorship proposals, press kits, etc... Hint/Tip: PHOTO-CD.
140.4	as .1 said "creativity"	VMSNET::M_MACIOLEK	Four54 Camaro/Only way to fly	`Fri Aug 05 1994 11:45`	16
	PS. Every major island in Hawaii has a drag strip. You need to start there first (business trip, build inventory/clientelle, tax deductable). You dig cameras. All that new gear is tax deductable. Business expense. Your basement contains all your gear, and the photolab and finished product. Business use of the home/tax write off. That new Multimedia PC... MadMike
140.5		KDX200::COOPER	Revolution calling!	`Fri Aug 05 1994 16:45`	9
	More Tax writeoffs: Mileage to and from 'gigs', Photography magazine subscriptions, Camera club dues, ANYthing that can be connected. In Colorado, go to the DMV and register your trade, and up to NorWest bank for their small business bank account (free!). jc (Doing this for his recording studio)
140.6	Fun but not too profitable.	CXCAD::C_WILLIAMS	Hammer	`Wed Sep 14 1994 16:20`	13
	I know a couple of guys in Denver that are professional photographers and have a big studio for doing exactly the same thing as you're asking about. They don't make much of a living at it. But being pro's they spend a lot of time doing other types of photo shoots for catalogs, clothing, what-ever. With that, they stay alive and can afford to keep their nice studio. They have a fair, perhaps below average, investment in lighting but most 'kids' coming in to shoot there cars don't notice whether the lighting was excellent or poor. The studio is set up to pull a car in, shoot it, and get it out. Low overhead, dig? Low overhead and they still aren't making much coin.