I think we need a little more info - are you being asked to edit someoe's images, or are you the one asking someone else to edit?
To me, it has to do with the time put in - are these RAW files needing a lot of editing? or jpegs needing less?
Pricing is a complex subject. Just knowing that you are providing "24 non-watermarked edited images on a CD for a client in jpeg format" is simply not enough to give you an answer, even an approximate one. This is because the range of prices for such a project is huge. Some may charge as little as a couple of $ per image. Others may charge hundreds, or thousands of $.
Another possibility is to charge an hourly fee, in which case the cost will be the total number of hours spent on the project x your hourly fee. This is an excellent approach if pricing per-image is challenging.
This requires that you first set an hourly fee, something I recommend you do regardless of other considerations. My hourly fee for example is $375/hr as of today (June 2011). I started much lower than that and built it up as my leverage and the demand for my services increased. Where you start is up to you, just don't start at minimum wage otherwise you'd be better off working at a minimum wage job instead of being self employed.
As Alain suggested, the price should be determined primarily by the requested use, not by the number or type of images. Will these be used for publication? If so, what type (book, local/national magazine etc.)? What will be the printed image size(s)? Does the client require exclusive use of any of these images? The more information, the better.
I'd negotiate a licensing agreement with the client before turning over the images. The license should include both terms of use and duration- i.e., what the client can and cannot do with the photos and for how long they can do it. The more liberties they have with the photos and the longer they can do it, the higher the price.
We do a lot of contract photography, charging shooting fees for generating the work, and it adds up to substantial fees on big shoots. But even collecting those fees, we negotiate a licensing agreement and charge for the USE of the photos for specific things and time periods. And if someone is willing to hire us to take the photos, that generally means the planned uses will be large and incur large license fees. On a recent two-day shoot our shooting fees were over $3k, a nice jag of buxx. But if we stopped there we would have really sold ourselves short. License fees for two years of unlimited international ad use of four photos were well over $10k. Way over, as a matter of fact. And on top of that we sold usage rights to some of our stock images for the project.
As a "stock" photographer selling usage of existing photos from your collection, you can't collect the shooting fees too. But you should most certainly be paid for how those photos will be used, and for how long.
BTW- The program fotoQuote is priceless for helping you negotiate the license fees, and essential for anyone selling photos.
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5 repliesTo me, it has to do with the time put in - are these RAW files needing a lot of editing? or jpegs needing less?
Sandy
Pricing is a complex subject. Just knowing that you are providing "24 non-watermarked edited images on a CD for a client in jpeg format" is simply not enough to give you an answer, even an approximate one. This is because the range of prices for such a project is huge. Some may charge as little as a couple of $ per image. Others may charge hundreds, or thousands of $.
Another possibility is to charge an hourly fee, in which case the cost will be the total number of hours spent on the project x your hourly fee. This is an excellent approach if pricing per-image is challenging.
This requires that you first set an hourly fee, something I recommend you do regardless of other considerations. My hourly fee for example is $375/hr as of today (June 2011). I started much lower than that and built it up as my leverage and the demand for my services increased. Where you start is up to you, just don't start at minimum wage otherwise you'd be better off working at a minimum wage job instead of being self employed.
Guy
We do a lot of contract photography, charging shooting fees for generating the work, and it adds up to substantial fees on big shoots. But even collecting those fees, we negotiate a licensing agreement and charge for the USE of the photos for specific things and time periods. And if someone is willing to hire us to take the photos, that generally means the planned uses will be large and incur large license fees. On a recent two-day shoot our shooting fees were over $3k, a nice jag of buxx. But if we stopped there we would have really sold ourselves short. License fees for two years of unlimited international ad use of four photos were well over $10k. Way over, as a matter of fact. And on top of that we sold usage rights to some of our stock images for the project.
As a "stock" photographer selling usage of existing photos from your collection, you can't collect the shooting fees too. But you should most certainly be paid for how those photos will be used, and for how long.
BTW- The program fotoQuote is priceless for helping you negotiate the license fees, and essential for anyone selling photos.