photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
In this part of our pricing photography tutorial I am going to start to describe a system for pricing up any assignment you are asked to do based on usage of the images you produce.
Tags: Assignment Photography, Getting paid, Photography Business, pricing photography
photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
Part One of this mini tutorial showed (by way of a rather spliffy video) the way not to go about pricing up an assignment. Poor old Mark Focus (great name eh?) decided that making it up as he went along was the best policy. And with disastrous [...]
photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho
Just how do you go about charging for your photography? Is there a secret to pricing assignment photography work? How much can I charge? Is there a formula?
All these questions and more are asked on an almost daily basis by new photographers and those just starting in the [...]
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Since the advent of digital more and more people are making images. That’s a good thing. The downside is that the explosion of photo sharing sites like Flickr and PBase have created a ready made amateur market for business savvy publishers to exploit.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re not doing anything [...]
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Lots of people make the same mistakes everyone makes when they start out shooting commissioned photography……they charge on their time.
“Oh yes I think that will take about an hour” they say. And they charge an hour. This is a natural reaction when a client asks “what’s your day rate?” or [...]
