[pure-silver] Re: Fees

  • From: Philippe Gauthier <pgauth@xxxxxxx>
  • To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:15:35 -0400

Justin F. Knotzke a écrit :

The rate includes film and development.

  I recently did a studio shoot. I only charged for materials. My time
was free.

  It cost the client $220 just in film, studio and development. No prints.

  Add in 3hrs of my time in the studio, plus say 2hrs for development
time plus the time it took to rent the studio, go to the colour lab
twice.. Figure another hour of my time. That's six hours total.

  At $150 an hour x 3 hrs = $450 charged to the client.

  $450 - $220 (film and dev) = $230

  $230 / 6hrs = $40/h

  I'd say I'm pretty cheap. That doesn't include the cost of my
equipment and the usual hassles of dealing with 6 primadonnas.




I think that you found your own answer. Charging 250$ per hour for the session makes perfect economic sense, but is just bad for marketing. You've got to do the opposite: charge relatively little for the shoot itself, and charge extra for the arcane darkroom work (customers are more ready to pay prime money for what they don't understand). Don't forget to bill the materials as well, detailed bills always look more fair than bill with a single "amount due" figure.

PG

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