PLEASE HELP - Corporate event/Usage Fees

[kachina]

Greetings All,

I have a quick question for you concerning a corporate event gig. Gig = candids and group portrait at an event for a large corporation. Images will be used for press releases by PR company and corporation. If you do this type of photography, do you charge a day rate and usage, or just a day rate with full-use copyright? The PR company wants a CD with all images as the deliverable. Personally, I look at this as commercial photography since it is a PR event for a corp. Thoughts? Any advice/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Rusty

[CaptainTom]

I charge a flat day rate for this sort of event. There's not much chance that anything you take at an event like this has the potential to be used in anything other than newsletter, emails, etc. I've done this in the past, and have subsequently been called for other shoots with the company.

My advice is to make sure the images you get to them are all your best effort. i.e. pp, etc.
Don't expect their PR department to want to do any post processing. I will weed out the junk, mass color correct, sharpen, etc. It might take a while, but if you get more gigs it can be worth the effort.

[kachina]

Muchas gracias....thanks for the advice.