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NUJ Freelance Fees Guide
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Interesting and useful – the NUJ Freelance Fees Guide. Yes, I know it’s a UK guide, but I think there are enough similarities in the two markets that this may be more than just a little bit interesting.
Thorston,
Interesting right enough. I used to price commercial work in a “loose” kind of way a few years back and found I was not getting the work at all. I was quoting prices really cheap. One morning as I was going out the door to a seminar on photoshop CS that was just launched I read my mails and there was another inquiry about a fairly small commercial job.
Talking at the bar later in the evening to a friend I asked him about how I should quote. He shocked me with the price and told me to get back and send the quote he had just prepared on a beer mat. I felt that ?150 would be overcharging and his quotation came to ?1760.
With nothing to lose I typed it up and sent it ………. and was more shocked when I got the job. 2 days later I tool out my Fuji S3 and by evening was sending a CD of images to the Client. After a bout 2 weeks the cheque arrived back. Since then I have been quoting as my friend showed me and its really working.LESSON:
If you are cheap, no company want to take a chance on you as they will think you dont know what your at and they already know there or there abouts what a “normal” quote should be.Also, if you portray the image of “cheap and cheerfull” these are the kind of Clients you will attract and usually they do not have the cash to pay for your services.
It is all about IMAGE ………. your image within the community, your image as a person, your image in your business dealings and your dealings with people, your image as a professional photographer and, finally, the quality of the image you produce from your camera. Remember the camera image is the last image they will see and you may well have failed the test on one , some or all of the other images brfore they allow you to demonstrate your skill on that final image.
I am wondering if a paper requests pictures of an event and the use 1 or 2 . do you charge for the ones that were published or for the number of pics you sent to the paper
blade912 wrote:
I am wondering if a paper requests pictures of an event and the use 1 or 2 . do you charge for the ones that were published or for the number of pics you sent to the paper
I always charge for the quantity I send regardless. Papers like the Irish Independent will request various pics from events I cover but if space gets tight then they may not use all of what they request. This was particularly so during the run up to the election and other such high profile events. For reasons such as this I charge for what their journalist at the event requests me to send or if they just call me up and ask for some shots I just charge for what I decide to send on and I dont even look to see if they appear at this stage. They dont seem to have a problem and so far there has never been an issue.
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