What should I charge?

[awad]

I just got hired to do a band promotional shoot, and they asked me to come up with a price. This is my first paying gig and i have no idea what to charge, i plan on giving them full use of the images including the files on cd, but i still have idea of what to charge them. Any tips on how to figure this out?

[DaveG]

I just got hired to do a band promotional shoot, and they asked me to come up with a price. This is my first paying gig and i have no idea what to charge, i plan on giving them full use of the images including the files on cd, but i still have idea of what to charge them. Any tips on how to figure this out?

When you deal with bands get the money up front. They won't have it when you show up to deliver the stuff and you certainly won't get it later once you give them ANY product at all. I wouldn't take my camera out of the bag unless the band paid first. It's not that they're bad people. It's that they have no money and what money they do have goes for food. So get the money and let them be hungry. Rock stars look better skinny anyway.

The price is always whatever the market will bear. If they are of the no-money-poor-us variety of band then $50-$100 will be the top end of that scale. Tell them for that kind of money they can use the stuff but that you will maintain the long term copyright and that you have given them permission to use them for the next six months or year.

On the off chance that these guys become successful - and picking a Latvian penny oil stock is likely to be a better investment - you might get some back door value in these shots later.

MAKE SURE that you fill out the EXIF/Metadata fields in Photoshop and include ©2005 AWAD All Rights Reserved. You get the © by holding down the ALT key and then typing 0 1 6 9 on the number keypad NOT the numbers above the letters on your keyboard. If they whine about this tell them that the price is now $500 and that they can have full copyright ownership. Then they won't mind you keeping it. They are going to steal and use it anyway so they don't care. It's so you can sell it to Rolling Stone in ten years for some real money!

[Keiffer]

MAKE SURE that you fill out the EXIF/Metadata fields in Photoshop and include ©2005 AWAD All Rights Reserved. You get the © by holding down the ALT key and then typing 0 1 6 9 on the number keypad NOT the numbers above the letters on your keyboard.

In the immortal words of Johnny Carson.......I did not know that. Always wondered how that was done. Thanks

[willg]

When you deal with bands get the money up front. They won't have it when you show up to deliver the stuff and you certainly won't get it later once you give them ANY product at all. I wouldn't take my camera out of the bag unless the band paid first. It's not that they're bad people. It's that they have no money and what money they do have goes for food. So get the money and let them be hungry. Rock stars look better skinny anyway.

The price is always whatever the market will bear. If they are of the no-money-poor-us variety of band then $50-$100 will be the top end of that scale. Tell them for that kind of money they can use the stuff but that you will maintain the long term copyright and that you have given them permission to use them for the next six months or year.

On the off chance that these guys become successful - and picking a Latvian penny oil stock is likely to be a better investment - you might get some back door value in these shots later.

MAKE SURE that you fill out the EXIF/Metadata fields in Photoshop and include ©2005 AWAD All Rights Reserved. You get the © by holding down the ALT key and then typing 0 1 6 9 on the number keypad NOT the numbers above the letters on your keyboard. If they whine about this tell them that the price is now $500 and that they can have full copyright ownership. Then they won't mind you keeping it. They are going to steal and use it anyway so they don't care. It's so you can sell it to Rolling Stone in ten years for some real money!

what is to stop them from opening the file in photoshop and changing the copyright?

[Marshall]

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In the immortal words of Johnny Carson.......I did not know that. Always wondered how that was done. Thanks[/QUOTE]

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