On May 26, 2010, at 7:29 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > From: Larry Colen >> Some friends stopped by when driving through town last night and we grabbed >> a bite at the local taqueria. I was showing them my 'best of' folder of >> prints and someone else there asked if I'd be interested in a job shooting >> an event, I think it was his parents 50th anniversary. >> Assuming that the scheduling worked, I don't even know what order of >> magnitude to charge. If it's a 3 hour affair, that's easily 6 hours of >> work, so I could see people charging anywhere from $150 to $1200 for that. > > I figure a $1000.00 DAY RATE; DAY = 8 hrs; $500.00 - HALF DAY = 4 hrs. > Additional hours @ $125.00/hr beyond HALF DAY, until you get beyond 8 hrs, > then you should be charging time & a half, but call it $185.00/hr ... unless > you really want to discourage going overtime, then charge $200.00/hr. > > Figure $150.00/hour for LESS than half a day. Three hours would be $450.00 > ... they might opt for HALF DAY. > > Charge according to how many hours you're going to be on site, actually in > there shooting. The time you spend on post production comes out of your > over-head. > > Consider that an incentive to get it right in camera so you don't have to > spend hours in post production.
If the clients are friends and you ask for that kind of money, they will cease to be friends. If they're really good friends, I shoot their party for grins. If they're somewhat distant friends, I charge them a few hundred bucks. If I have to make money off my friends, I figure I'm pretty hard up. Paul > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
