HOW To Price Product shoot...

Hi I was wondering if any of you can help...

I've been approached with a Brief of 50 images of jewellery products..

I have no idea how to price something like this.. Would it be per image? if so.. how much usually?

I'm a portrait photographer so this is somewhat new to me pricing wise..

Thanks in advance...

Price it the same way you would a portrait shoot. Just because the subject is different does not make the business different:
–*Time spent
–*End use
–*Expenses/Rentals
–*Post Production

If you want to price it per item, take the total amount from above and divide it by your total number of products.

A word of warning - Jewellery is very difficult to photograph and generaly require a lot of PP to get them looking acceptable - even new pieces can look dog rough and scratched to death under a Marcro lens.

You could comfortably assume 1-2 hours (or more) post processing per image. It all depends on the standards that you are looking to achieve and the customers expectations.

Have a look at the following link :

http://www.photigy.com …ouching-before-and-after/

Nightstalker wrote in post #16204530
Have a look at the following link :

http://www.photigy.com …ouching-before-and-after/

Wow! Unbelievable the amount of work required to those photos.

Yeah, scary isn't it.

I guess that is why Jewellery photography can be a bit of a speciality and is not cheap.

wow! ok.. I may add in a disclaimer with the quote about them not being re-touched....)

I charge a flat hourly fee for commercial/product photography. I rarely do fine jewelry due to Nightstalker's points. I hate spending more than a few minutes on PP, therefore I don't do it that often. It's crazy what you can see in a new piece that has never been worn.

btw, I've seen some of Alex Koloskov's tutorials on youtube.... pretty cool.

Rushmore wrote in post #16205095
wow! ok.. I may add in a disclaimer with the quote about them not being re-touched....)

The point I was making was to be sure of their requirements and expectations before you accept the job. Photographing jewellery on a model for instance is a much easier task than doing macro photography to get the sort of images in the link I posted.

Depending on what they want sort of images they want and how they intend to use the images for they will almost certainly expect you to do a certain amount of retouching as they will not want to retain their own retoucher.

Selling on eBAY will obviuously require much less work than an image destined for a full page add in a glossy magazine. Unless the client is experienced in buying photography services they will not understand what work needs to go into the killer images you see daily in adverts.

If they want detail phoptography then I would also suggest that you will need more kit than you currently show. A good macro lens will be essential and additional lighting will probably be also required together with some table-top product table allowing for underlighting.

If they want model based images then your current set up should be fine.

Best of luck with the job - I don;t envy you this one.