Question/Opinions

[Biomech]

Build it out of boxes, glue bamboo to the boxes

[Jim Bryant]

Don't charge hourly.........charge a creative fee, which includes all expenses, and time, both photography and post pocessing wok.

[andyw]

Originally Posted by Biomech

I don't want to hijack your thread or anything, but it does pose an interesting question.

At what point do you hike your prices? If you charge say, £25/$40 per hour, why/should you charge more for bigger clients? It seems unfair and unmoral to crank the price up just because the client is a global corporation. On the other hand, if you are working with a big client then you're getting somewhere.

You don't. You adjust your licensing according to the media and usage the images are being used in.

My day rate stays the same whether it is Mom's bakery or Massive Dynamics.
However, the license fee will be different because Mom's bakery will probably only want the images for local use where as Massive Dynamics will want them for the big multi-national ad campaign.

In effect you are basing that pricing on the value to the client of your work.

[Biomech]

Makes sense, definately a good way to think about it. Thanks

[Ambrosia76]

If you know how much you are going to have to put in to get the images I might would just use a flat fee of $xxxx including the first 5 imagines and if they want more than 5 they can purchase extras at X rate.