How much would you charge?

[petert]

Here's the situation: I've been shooting models for TFP/TFCD all Summer. My own contract says that the model can select FIVEimages from a proofing gallery. Those five images will be post-processed, inspected and hand-tuned as needed, then released with a directory of "print-ready" versions and "web-ready" versions... then the whole thing is set for a download from my site... sometimes, they might get more if I look at the image and think it looked better as an 8x10....

Anyway, the important part: I've had it in my TFP form that I would grant the 5 images for free, then each following image is a charge (this to keep models from saying to me 'Oh, I love them all. Can't you just send the whole thing to me?' ...one time, that question worked out to be 100+ images... but I digress: I want to charge something that make the model realize that I was serious about my photographic and photoshop processing skills.

I was thinking $25.00/image... too high, too low? I'm sure there's folks that would want to know what I would do: selective noise elimination, first-pass sharpening, skin smoothing (including the masking hair, eyes, etc., hand changes, and finally saving in the two formats.

Is $25 too little or too much?

[Daniel Bates]

Well, how much time does it take to run through noise reduction, sharpening, smoothing, masking, and saving?

[bondarnes]

If you plan to keep this as a hobby you are a little low. If you are a serious photographer you are still in the little league ballfield. At least step up to the minor leagues.

[boxofrocks]

There is an interesting thread on a topic related to this here.

(edited 11:54 AM) Looks like that link is bad. Google cached version available here.