Smart Money article on celeb photos and Froggy's

[carencey77.livejournal.com]

Article (no registration required or anything)

Highlights -
"Froggy, who works up to 40 conventions a year, prices most of his celebrity subjects around $30. The fee is split three ways (with the convention sponsor and the actor) so each get $10."
'“At shows like Dragon Con, some people spend three or four thousand [dollars] on photos,” he says.'

$3000? How does that work? Do some people spend their entire cons at the photo table? How would one get to that number - by buying individual AND group shots of their favorites?

Comments

[ladytalker13.livejournal.com]

I was very unhappy with the assembly-line feel to Froggy's set-up this year. Not the line system, in the waiting room, once they got their act together with it - but with the whole rushed experience with the celebs. It seemed to me that when we were getting photos with Mary McDonnell SHE felt unhappy about the rush, too, taking a moment to thnak us for watching the show, despite the next person being ushered up to her.

I'll be checking with individual celebs about table ops and thinking hard about doing that again next year.

[majorsamfan.livejournal.com]

Froggy was impatient with our photo with Kate Mulgrew, and she called him on it. I think that may be why we got the smile and as time when on she got a more grim expression on her face.