Thank you Chuck, Wayne and Ken for your suggestions. Greatly appreciated!
I have told him that I really need a deep explanation of what he is looking
for. How many days does he want me to take pictures? I have offered him to
retouch pictures or even create montages. In other words I want him to
explain to me every single point.
Ken, when you say $1200 per day (wedding) are you including skin retouching
and photoshop stuff?
Regards,
Dave
2011/10/25 Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Use what you got. Charge for the sitting fee (somewhere between $75 and
> $150) and then charge for reprints at 2X your cost. For the album cover
> (mass production), figure about $200 at the most.
>
> The rates for mass printing and commerical applications has severely
> depressed. The days of making $2000 for an album cover are long long gone.
>
> I mention the reprints, because that's where most of your income from the
> job is going to be. Even though he might be looking for album art, he'll
> want 8x10 glossies, web page images, business cards, post cards, posters,
> and so on. The album itself is only a portion of the job.
>
> Figure to profit about $500 for this job. Inotherwords, about $1000 gross
> sales, you get the keystone of 1/2 that.
>
> Doesn't seem like much, but unfortunately, that's where the market is at
> right now. Don't believe the hype on some of the photoforums of people
> claiming to make $2000 per day, every day... There are only a couple dozen
> photographers in the world doing that and they aren't hanging around on
> DPREVIEW. Kirk Tuck is a good indicator of national trends. If someone as
> well established as him struggles, then you can pretty well figure out who
> is blowing smoke. (same is true with the wedding photographers--I've NEVER
> done a $10,000 wedding in my life. Not even $5000. Come to think of it,
> I've
> never even done $2500. But I can sell $800-1200 weddings all day long.
>
> AG Schnozz
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