Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
In The Round Practice
Hey everyone. Recently some Pep Ventosa work came across my social media and it inspired me to get out and try his in the round technique again. I've tried it before without a ton of success.
Exploring a different angle.....
I posted recently about how using the Bluristic app angle mode could simulate the action used in the Pep Ventosa 'in the round' technique.
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Can you recommend a smartphone that takes photos that look both natural and beautiful? I'm tired of photos that look so fake. What do you think of the OPPO Find X10 Pro Max?
Grain silo
A couple of old photos taken while the Amtrak was stopped - somewhere in Colorado, I think?
(And yes, I like that the vertical leans!)
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You should try to calculate a day rate for yourself to answer these questions. Take how much you want to make per year. Divide that by how many days you're planning on working. Does it seem feasible to charge that amount? If not, reassess how much you want to make per year. That would be the top-down approach to pricing.
If you want to build from the bottom-up, try to figure out how many hours total you will spend on site, in post-processing, traveling, and engaging in various administrative or financial tasks. Multiply that by a dollar value that seems reasonable to you. What's the total?
In the end, since you're providing a time-based service, it's next to impossible for anyone to give you an estimate without an idea of the scope of work you're supposed to provide. Are you taking five photos of a small hotel? Is it a multi-day affair with a large amount of hero shots that will be used for international marketing efforts?
That all being said, here's a hypothetical that may help you.
If you were to be in a major metropolitan area in the United States shooting a small campaign for a reasonably upscale hotel/club with a total of 4 hours on-site, 8 hours of post and 2 hours of admin/travel, I would charge somewhere around $3-4k with a perpetual use license for digital, print, and internal use. This would be based on a small number of hero shots (5 or less) along with a group of various shots and vignettes totaling less than 50 finished photos all together.
I completely agree as to the fact that one is charging for time.
I am sure you will get some arguing that usage rates should be figured into the shoot. However, the rate you quote has usage rates implicit in it.
The issue I have with getting pedantic about usage rates and the itemization of them is that it annoys and confuses many clients unfamiliar with the usage licensing scheme.
The bulk of clients in small businesses are innocent of any knowledge of licensing and will avoid that photographer that seems "difficult" even if they are actually the more professional.
It's a matter of who your client is and what they want. If they're a typical realtor/real estate company/etc that are looking for portfolio photos, I include usage rights as a line item on the proposal & invoice with language showing it is included in the overall price. There's no reason in that scenario to try to pull some money out of a limited usage period for the images. If anything, that's a great way to get them to never call you back to photograph another project.
Thanks a lot Rob and Indy. Your comments made things a little more clear.
Mike Kelley has a good article about pricing that you can check out...
https://apalmanac.com/business/charge-architectural-photography-2019-718