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I had a long answer prepared, but I decided to answer it this way. I did a family photograph taken on remote location, it was a family of 6. I charged a $50 on location fee, plus a distance charge (gas is expensive still). That came to $75, then I charged $50 for the couple plus $10 for each additional child, so now we are up to $165. She wanted individual pictures of each child, I normally charge and additional $20 per child seating. So now I am at $245. They asked for the digital originals to print so they payed $50 extra for that. So for $300 for about 2 hours of work they got the following. I gave them a CD with the 6 best pictures of their family. This included general post processing about and hour of work afterward. Then each child had 2 or three shots that I thought were the best. So my total was 16 high quality photos.

I think they got a good deal, and they seemed to think so too. I don't give them all my photos because I don't want them to print up photos that I think poorly represent my work. It is an artist prerogative. So 12 photos that you like is dirty cheap for $50, and you have all the photos, including the crappy ones.

Okay so this is a long answer as well.