Location Shooting

Consider Trades

“It costs how much?” I gasped.

The helicopter company manager wrote the hourly rental rate for his helicopter on a sheet of paper and showed it to me. It exceeded all my other expenses for the shoot combined.

I thought for a moment. “How about a trade?” I asked.

A handful of catalogers are prosperous enough to simply write a check for whatever they need on a location shoot. But for the rest of us, location shooting is a delicate balancing act—getting the shots we need while avoiding shooting huge holes in the budget.