Originally Posted by Sam Be offended if you like, but after reading this If I were the customer I would simply say thank you and get another photographer. This is a pretty small job. Not worth the all the drama. I think I would have the job shot and delivered by the time you were calling to check on the status of your quote. Sam

Yep. I would charge them a half day rate of $600, a day of processing at $1200, and unlimited usage at $2000 for up to 5 images with a size of 2000x2000.

Originally Posted by orljustin Yep. I would charge them a half day rate of $600, a day of processing at $1200, and unlimited usage at $2000 for up to 5 images with a size of 2000x2000.

And the client would say :

Holy Chit!
We asked a guy about this job the other day and he was only going to charge like $300!!
You are like 12 Times the price!!

The other guy wanted us to pay more every time we used the shots although we really didn't understand why. He had all these contracts and stuff as well which seemed sus. Why should we pay him more every time we wanted to use a picture we had already paid him to take and was ours??
He reckoned it was going to take him 2 days to edit the pictures he took. Not sure the guy really knows what he's doing.
I think there was a catch in it somewhere, it was too complicated just for a few pictures.

And you want $3800 and we can do what we want with the pics right?

Great, when can you do the photos?

Originally Posted by jpc If I offer a RF alternative, I'm going to need to come up with a per-shot value.

You are seriously over thinking this. In the business of photography, about 5% of your success is found in the images that you take.

Having someone who likes your pictures is great, but if you can't sell them you won't be in business long.

You have to remember that most people consider photography as pushing a button. That's it. They don't care what you had to do before, during or after to get the shot, they only want the shot.

People don't have time to deal with someone who is constantly trying to milk them for every penny.

When you read someone posting about all these different formulas for licensing this or that, ask the person if they are making their living with photography.

Our studio has thousands of images published on websites, catalogs, newspapers, and magazines, and there isn't a single one of our photographers who gives a crap about a photo credit. There is an old saying in the commercial world, "Take the cash, leave the credit."

When you read someone posting about all these different formulas for licensing this or that, ask the person if they are making their living with photography.

Excellent Point!!!