Bare Minimum to Provide with Sitting Fee

Xboxer · 22nd of May 2008 (Thu)

Hi all,

With a typical sitting fee around $50 for 1-1.5 hrs of work, what is your interpretation of what services that provides?

My approach was to :

(1) Shoot alot , filter out 20-24 workable photographs

(2) Provide a low-res 4x6 set of prints with watermarked (c) and name

(3) Suggest which prints to be worked with further "artistic" touches, and provide non-watermarked prints , but with (c) year/ name on the back.

Do we have to provide the prints due to the $50 fee? ie) does some form of product have to change hands? Could this have been a 72dpi low-res digital image with watermarks, which forces them back to me for usable prints?

Thanks for the feedback,

sevillafox · 22nd of May 2008 (Thu)

I do online proofing. If they want proofs they can hold in their hand, I charge extra. You'd have to charge more than $50 to make it worth your while to print out those proofs and your time.

Scarter275 · 22nd of May 2008 (Thu)

I just keep it simple.

Sitting fee
Online Proofs
List of prints and prices

No special deals or anything.... I would rather that, than to complicate things...

Xboxer · 22nd of May 2008 (Thu)

Thanks for the feedback.

Until I have a working website to do online proofing, I'll bring them into my home-office to show them on the big screen.

22nd of May 2008 (Thu)	#1
Xboxer Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 40	Bare Minimum to Provide with Sitting Fee Hi all, With a typical sitting fee around $50 for 1-1.5 hrs of work, what is your interpretation of what services that provides? My approach was to : (1) Shoot alot , filter out 20-24 workable photographs (2) Provide a low-res 4x6 set of prints with watermarked (c) and name (3) Suggest which prints to be worked with further "artistic" touches, and provide non-watermarked prints , but with (c) year/ name on the back. Do we have to provide the prints due to the $50 fee? ie) does some form of product have to change hands? Could this have been a 72dpi low-res digital image with watermarks, which forces them back to me for usable prints? Thanks for the feedback,

22nd of May 2008 (Thu)	#2
sevillafox I'm good with pathetic! Really, I am. Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Southwest Wisconsin Skill Level: sucktographer Posts: 25,150	Re: Bare Minimum to Provide with Sitting Fee I do online proofing. If they want proofs they can hold in their hand, I charge extra. You'd have to charge more than $50 to make it worth your while to print out those proofs and your time. __________________ Tiffany hopeless smooshoholic......I ♥ smoosh! gear

22nd of May 2008 (Thu)	#3
Scarter275 Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 341 IMAGE EDITING OK	Re: Bare Minimum to Provide with Sitting Fee I just keep it simple. Sitting fee Online Proofs List of prints and prices No special deals or anything.... I would rather that, than to complicate things... __________________ 70-200L 2.8 IS, 17-40L, 580exII Flashes, Pocket Wizards, Lightroom, CS3, Think Tank gear, and a 40D. "If those get published in FHM, I'll eat my card reader."

22nd of May 2008 (Thu)	#4
Xboxer Member Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 40	Re: Bare Minimum to Provide with Sitting Fee Thanks for the feedback. Until I have a working website to do online proofing, I'll bring them into my home-office to show them on the big screen.

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