As a (semi-former) newspaper shooter, I wish you the best of luck. Papers today pay next to nothing.
The small town papers that I'm familiar with for a similar event would probably be thinking in the ballpark of $25-30 per individual event, if even that much. On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Try phoning the journalists' union and ask them the going rate for > stringers. > > Bob > >> >> Sorry for another How to price this. >> >> I received an email from one of the local paper editors(i send them >> photos of events if they don't have some one there themselves). >> The town has been revamping the old theater building, about 140 odd >> years old, and it wil be the new theater and arts building for the >> town. >> Seems they are looking for a local photog guy to photography the >> opening events for the two week opening starting May 9th. >> >> She asked if i was interested and if so would get me the contact info >> for me to call, email etc. >> >> Now as you know, i shoot horses, and my "arts" event photography is >> limited, but not non existent. >> So i suppose my mane:-) question would be, how does one price this. >> >> I know i'll need more info like, are they looking for 5-10 pictures to >> use for advertising, web site etc. >> >> I have lots of cameras, lenses, flashes etc so i think i have enough >> gear to do the job. >> >> Any way, just looking for some suggestions. >> >> Dave > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- ~Nick David Wright http://www.nickdavidwright.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
