Wanting to know how much I should charge a wedding party...or anyone for that matter for a cd with all the photos I took in 4x6...I was thinking $500 on top of all the other charges...let me know...trying to send an e-mail tonight.
So you're selling them a CD full of the images, un-processed in digital form?
500$?
Am I thinking of the right thing?
That's why I can never be a wedding photographer. When I put my potential price list together for my business, I was going to charge 5$ for a CD or DVD with all the raw pictures on it. I just wanted to charge an hourly rate.
I can never be a wedding photographer, because I can also never undercut the market!
So you're selling them a CD full of the images, un-processed in digital form?
500$?
Am I thinking of the right thing?
That's why I can never be a wedding photographer. When I put my potential price list together for my business, I was going to charge 5$ for a CD or DVD with all the raw pictures on it. I just wanted to charge an hourly rate.
I can never be a wedding photographer, because I can also never undercut the market!
-Hideo
If you charge a full hourly rate, then it is reasonable to charge only a nominal fee for copies of the negatives. The clients get copies of all the images.
However, if you charge no hourly rate, or a heavily discounted hourly rate in the expectation of being able to sell prints, then you need to recoup the cost of lost picture sales as a consequence of having supplied the CD. The benefit for the client is that they do not have to pay anything if they do not like/want the prints.
In both examples, the photographer is aiming to get roughly the same amount of money, but by different means. So, by charging an hourly rate you would not necessarily be undercutting the opposition.
Yea...I would love to get $500 worth of prints...but it never amounts to that...and I do get paid aside for the job...I'm trying to get all the money I can...this is not a 8-5 kinda job...as most here know.
You might want to consider only giving them between 100 and 300 photos...Normally, 1000 photos is just going to overwhelm most people and make their decision harder.
