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[MRCPix]

I have a newbie question.
I have a shoot that I did and the person just wants the cd with pics on it. Yes I knew this before the shoot it is just a personal project of hers not a wedding or formals. I just don't know how to price the cd? it has 55 images on it any help from the forum would be apprciated.

[MRCPix]

what no one has ever done this ? a little help please

[Rox74]

I've been told before to charge "by the hour" for the work that it took you. Also, you have to figure in if you did any edits to the picture or not and the time it took you to do that. I did some family portraits about a year ago and since it was my first one, I only charged $25. Yeah, I got screwed. I've got someone wanting me to do their wedding and give them a CD instead of prints this summer so I'm curious what other people do to.

[timbertoes]

might be that the "value" of the project would be the point to base the CD price from..

[AndrewCCM]

Price should be negotiated before the shoot. After the fact is a touchy one...one party or the other can sometimes feel cheated. If you both know going in...it's a much better transaction.

Only you can know what the effort was worth. My advice...if you know that a CD is going to be purchased...ALWAYS get enough up front to make it worthwhile. You know right up front you're getting nada for prints.

Good luck!

[bondarnes]

Originally Posted by mikeN80

I have a newbie question.
I have a shoot that I did and the person just wants the cd with pics on it. Yes I knew this before the shoot it is just a personal project of hers not a wedding or formals. I just don't know how to price the cd? it has 55 images on it any help from the forum would be apprciated.

Since it is only pics from a shoot it probably is worth about $50.00, however if you were selling images from a creative session it could be $500.00 or even $5000.00. The words one uses and one's own attitude have a lot to do with how one might price their work. A "proof" is only worth a few bucks, but we have sold portrait originals for $25.00 for many years.

[babybluetx23]

I USUALLY charge by the hour myself. I have had a few weddings that were only 2 hours and they didnt want ANY edits, they JUST wanted the CD with pics. I couldnt justify charging them my normal Wedding charge, so I charged by the hour.
I had a band do the same thing to me since they had a photoshop guru in the band. So I charged by the hour plus more since it was for promo material.

[bodynmotion]

I am hoping to start doing this soon myself. I have been told that $50+ per hour or $50 for the CD if less than 100 images on them, no edit. That is for JPEG only, RAW would get more as there is more data available for PS users.

[AndrewCCM]

$.50 per image? WOW. Glad I do not rely on this for my sole income.

[MRCPix]

thanks everyone