On Feb 28, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Christine Nielsen wrote: > Hi all, > > Here's my deal... I have a couple of clients for whom I do product > photography -- small businesses who need images for their websites & > promotional materials. Usually, they send me the items, and I charge > an hourly rate for photographing & editing. It works pretty well. > > Recently, one of them asked me to come to their place, and spend the > day photographing a bunch more stuff, one-of-a-kind-type items that > they have. And... asking what is my day rate?
Do you want to encourage them? Or discourage them? Are you underemployed, so that it would be worth your while to drive out there and spend more time shooting than you might if they just sent the stuff to you? Or, are you already working at capacity? I would suggest, however, that your day rate should have some maximum number of hours listed, after which you go hourly on top of it. I suspect that a day rate could work out well for them, even if you charge more per hour, if you can photograph more items for your time than doing it onesy-twosy, not to mention their time and expense of shipping items. It will cost you in driving time, but you'll likely save in set up and teardown time if you can photograph a dozen items rather than one or two. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- 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.
