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- imnotadesigner
What would you charge for 16 individual product shots? Same setup for all of them.
- Mal0
including retouching?
- imnotadesigner0
Forgot to mention that, no retouching. I'm shooting the product, then handing the files over to their designers.
- stewart0
depends on it. Mercedes trucks or paper clips?
- ian0
Well how long is it going to take you? Most photographers I've dealt with have two rates, a half day and a day rate. Thats it. Figure out how long its going to take and price accordingly.
Or $1,000, whichever you prefer.
- livelikebruce0
A lot pro but not ultra expensive photographers will have somewhere around a 2k day rate. I've seen semi pro photogs charge anywhere between $500 and $1200 for a day rate.
- imnotadesigner0
The client is giving away $10,000 in apple products, so they want to show a bunch of stuff : ipods, apple tv, imacs, mac books etc.
Im going to be shooting ona white background and the designer will be doing all the retouching.
I think $200 is quite fair, but I don't wanna low-ball myself either or is that too much?- Not to sound harsh here, but surely there are a shit-load of hi-res apple images available to download for this purpose?ian
- I know but apple won't let you use their corporate images for promotions... you have to shoot your ownimnotadesigner
- HAYZ1LLLA0
£300
- zarkonite0
16 products, same setup. That's half a day... do you have to rent equipment? do they want alternates? its shouldn't be less than 1000$ for sure.
- I have a friend who has equipment so I should toss some $ his way tooimnotadesigner
- imnotadesigner0
Now I feel like $200 a shot s too much
- For straight product with nothing fancy, and not being a pro-photo (I'm assuming)... $200 per, no retouching, is high.pylon
- ..high.pylon
- is? ... I didn't gettherestimnotadesigner
- ...high.
That was all. see below.pylon
- pylon0
Where are you? Depends on location.
In Toronto I'd not charge any less than a grand, as zarkonite says.
The thousand covers:
- your hourly / daily rate
- your gear (basically your client is hiring you and renting your gear)
- imnotadesigner0
ok.... 16 shots - $2500
- pylon0
What type of gear are you going to be using?
If a photog tried to charge me 2500 for something shot with a low-end Canon dslr I'd smack them.
For perfectly lit, composed, colour-corrected and shot mf then that type of pricing makes sense.
I guess it depends on who the client is and what they're used to paying.This set-up sounds so straight-forward and easy that $2500 for less than a day feels way high for small (not macro) product.
- MrDaro0
$200 per shot plus retouching fee or $1000 for half a day plus retouching fee. Let the client choose. Depending on the amount of work I waive the retouching fee.
- imnotadesigner0
pylon - Im shot with my 5D and a 24-70 lens
- JG_LB0
Is it a big client or a mompop?
- imnotadesigner0
I'd say fairly big. They're real estate developers.
- pr20
people why say it's straight forward assignment have no clue what they are saying.
It's a highly complicated shoot with lots of glassy surfaces so it's gonna be a royal bitch to set it up in such a way that you get rid of the unwanted reflections. For that matter some kind of nice "tent" would be of good use for you.
Get what you can. If you can get $2500 then go for it.
- pylon0
It's worth whatever the client wants to pay. I'm not saying DON'T go for $2500, I'm just saying it seems high for what it is. Glossy isn't *that* hard if you've done it before. Just set your lights right and get a polarising filter.
For 16 shots (even glossy) I'd expect to pay 75-150 a shot from a photog, un-retouched. So I guess you're on the upper-end of that spectrum, but within reason.
- pr20
all i'm saying is that it requires skills and this isn't "Let me bring my SLR and shoot some stuff on white background" kinda job (to get it to a pro level). That skill alone should get u $1000-1500 before all other expenses such as camera rental (about $350), light set-up rental (about $200). So if he can get extra $500, then why not?
- Totally agree. Don't want it to sound like I don't agree. It all depends on the client's comfort.pylon
- imnotadesigner0
I just broke it down like this
1000.00 - photography day rate
500.00 - studio rental
800.00 - post production
200.00 - equipment & lighting setup