going rate for post-process editing? i need someone!

[jamiewerner]

Originally Posted by HotHolly

i'd say its time for a price hike. supply and demand.

i hear that! and will do so after jan. 1! i've already booked clients through the fall, and feel that hiking prices now is kind of a hidden attack....

these responses have been so helpful! thanks everyone!!

[bondarnes]

Originally Posted by jamiewerner

i hear that! and will do so after jan. 1! i've already booked clients through the fall, and feel that hiking prices now is kind of a hidden attack....

these responses have been so helpful! thanks everyone!!

In my opinion, wedding prices should be adjusted January 1. Then as an incentive for all the girls who got engaged over the holidays, offer to book at last year's prices if they book by Jan. 15.

Portrait prices should go up Sept. 1 or no later than Oct. 1 You will get used to the new prices by the end of the year. If you wait until Jan.1 when business is slow anyway you will be tempted to roll prices back after a few weeks of no business. For clients that have already booked sessions, tell them that you have raised prices, but they can still get the old prices if they place their order within 15 days of their session.

[Susant707]

Originally Posted by Mindy H

Hey Girlie! I love your work! We need to meet up sometime since we are both in The Woodlands!

I have been searching for a while for someone to do this....and, sifting through lots of people inquiring about doing this for me, but it is so hard to find someone good! I got pricing all over the map from lots of individuals. I finally just set up what I wanted to pay, made the offer, then screened people that were ok with that rate.

But, in the meantime, I also screened editing companies as well. One in particular that I liked....I'm not going to include the name since I am posting pricing too....but, I thought the pricing might help. If you want the name, just message me. Here is the info of pricing for a sample project they gave me:

Thanks for contacting *******, please allow us to answer your questions and break down the costs of a potential order:

# of RAW images shot: 300

Color Processing RAW ($.26/image) X 300 = $78
Processing to Jpeg (if ordered) $.03/image) X 300= $9

# of artistic edits: 10

Phase 1 Artistic Edit ($2.50/image) X 10= $25

Shipping, handling, caring and XMP email delivery = $15

TOTAL= $178

Our turnaround time is 5-8 business days from when we receive your files and the images are sent to us on a portable hard drive, thumb drive or dvd in the mail. When the job is complete we will email XMP’s and ship out the media with the final product via USPS priority (2-4 days).

The Phase 1 Artistic Edit allows us to spend 4-6 minutes per image and will cost $2.50/image. If the work you have specified takes longer than that time, we call that a phase 2 Artstic edit, which runs $60/hour.

Hope that helps!

Mindy,

Will you (or anyone else) please send me the name of the editing company you described here? And/or any others you have found? Thanks!

Susan

[lyncca]

I offer photo retouching too :)

http://www.lyncca.com/services/photo-retouching/

[syuan]

I love to work on retouching when I'm not shooting. Fast turnaround, easy transaction.

RAW/JPG processing: $.25/image

Artistic processing: $2.00/image