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What do I charge? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Expensive-Animator28@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Hello, I was recently hired to do a 2-hour event shoot of a company’s parade float. They only want 12 photos in the end, but obviously I’ll have to edit much more than that so they can pick out which 12 they want. I’m also a sophomore in college and wouldn’t say I have more than the average amount of experience. I really just don’t know what to charge for shooting or editing. I don’t want to overcharge, but I know if i lowball then I won’t be taken seriously.

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[–] tienphotographer@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

since you are new to this let me grind this into you now.

please make your life and the clients life easier and let the paying client choose which final photos they want. this will save you so much time and headache having to go back and edit different photos because you didn't know they hate the top left corner of their face and all the photos you chose have that in it.

i know you are shooting a parade float but this applies to anything going forward. because their marketing team might be looking for something specific in the shots that you don't know about. go through the photos first and YOU remove photos that YOU don't want your name associated with then you send the rest in low res JPG with your watermark nice and big across the entire center of the photos. then you let them choose the agreed upon number of finals and you edit only those.

example. they want 12 photos. you take 100 photos. you narrow down to 30 BEST photos. you let them choose between those 30 BEST. now whatever they choose you will be happy with because you already chose it. everyone wins.

if they don't like any of those 30 then.. well you got a bigger problem..

i can't tell you how much to charge because i don't know what market you are in and the going rates in that market but if your work is good then charge accordingly.