what to charge for product photography ???

[dward]

Hi There-

I am doing some product photography and do not know how this kind of photography is priced, Do I charge by the photo, product or my time (i.e. by the hour). So if you could let me know how this usually works, I would really appriciate it.

Thanks for taking the time to help.

Sincerely- Doug

p.s.- if you need further info in regards to this topic, please let me know.

[lonni]

Generally its a per hour charge, with an extra fee for using the photos, which will depend on how and where they will be used. Ther is also the question of royalties, printing rights or license.

I would suggest that you charge a fee per photo and have a license drawn up stating that they can use the images for their own personal use on website, advertising etc but they can not resell or redistribute the images or print them on mugs, tshirts, calendars etc for sale. Tat is pretty much the standard license.

I charge $10 per image for, print quality and discount it to $7 for over 100 images. The images are mainly for catalogues, websites newspaper and magazine adverts etc, and i am in country Australia so that will impact your price.

The Per hour fee need to cover all your time including shooting, travel, post processing etc. Customers dont want to pay for post processing hours as they cant see the time etc, and they figure you should be good enough to not need post, so you will need to build it into your price.

I charge $100 per hour and always give a firm minimum and maximum expected hours to the client, after discussing the when, where and hows.

HTH

[dward]

Originally Posted by lonni

Generally its a per hour charge, with an extra fee for using the photos, which will depend on how and where they will be used. Ther is also the question of royalties, printing rights or license.

I would suggest that you charge a fee per photo and have a license drawn up stating that they can use the images for their own personal use on website, advertising etc but they can not resell or redistribute the images or print them on mugs, tshirts, calendars etc for sale. Tat is pretty much the standard license.

I charge $10 per image for, print quality and discount it to $7 for over 100 images. The images are mainly for catalogues, websites newspaper and magazine adverts etc, and i am in country Australia so that will impact your price.

The Per hour fee need to cover all your time including shooting, travel, post processing etc. Customers dont want to pay for post processing hours as they cant see the time etc, and they figure you should be good enough to not need post, so you will need to build it into your price.

I charge $100 per hour and always give a firm minimum and maximum expected hours to the client, after discussing the when, where and hows.

HTH

Thanks, That helps. I am shooting about 6 to 10 photos of mini steam engines and toys for a companies website and there are over 1000 products to shoot, I am using all there equipment from soft-boxes, Nikon camera and lenses and Photoshop CS4, so my time is all I have invested in this job.

Thanks again for your advise,,,it certainly has helped !!!!

Sincerely - Doug

[lonni]

No probs, hope it goes well, the jobs sounds fun.