At last I've got a client who's prepared to pay the equivalent of film/processing and scanning for my days in front on my Mac. Most aren't so understanding.
One client deigns to pay the paltry sum of �100 on top of my daily rate, in spite of trying to educate him on the subject by putting together a document containing excerpts from posts from here and robgalbraith.com listing other photographers' charges. I've accepted it for the moment because it's a high profile client who, last year at least, gives me a lot of work. I will try and renegotiate for the next job (if he decides I wasn't too money grabbing on the last!). I have volunteered to go and show exactly what is involved in processing an image. It's partly down to ignorant 'project managers' who have no understanding about photography - although I'm sure they're thrilled to save the money assigned in their budget to drum scanning and not paid to me. Isn't it time there was a 'code of practice' issued by the AOP, so that we can at least show clients some suggested rates, or framework of rates? At the moment I supply then RGB images and they are then sent on to someone else for 'colour balancing' and CMYK conversion. With a calibrated monitor I can certainly do the former, but I'm not qualified to do the latter (beyond changing modes, which is of course not enough). Does anyone know of any good websites, books or courses on the subject. Who knows, maybe I could get paid by my client to do it (although he might expect it for free!!). Regards Richard Lewisohn =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
