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Gender: Female
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Age: 98
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State: Florida
Country: US
Signup Date: 11/5/2006
February 9, 2008 - Saturday 

Category: Art and Photography

One of our memebers needs some advice:

"Most of the questions I see on here about actual photos are regarding portraits.I do mostly naure/ landscape/architectural photographs but am moving into portraits as well.
As I am considered an amateur, how do I price my pictures for the corporate market? For example, I'm working on getting a contract set up to sell my art to hotels around the US. If I supply the artwork only, how much do I charge for the photographs?
Thanks!
~Lena"

*SRE photography*

 
I dunno excactly, but one of my photographer friends charges according to how much it costs to print it out...like the cost of the print would be 10% of the real cost. ex.- $2.00 to print out, and you would charge $20.00....I dunno really, but I hope this gives you an idea.
 
Posted by *SRE photography* on February 9, 2008 - Saturday - 8:51 PM
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Jose Limon Photography
Jose Limon

 
How much do you think you are worth?
Ask yourself if I were the hotel would I pay this amount for the photo I want to sell them?
Customers love good prices.
Even if you add one penny to your cost your still making One Penny profit you didnt have.
The better the prices you have the more your clients will buy annd the more they buy the more pennies go into your pockets.
 
Posted by Jose Limon Photography on February 9, 2008 - Saturday - 10:13 PM
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AMH Photography
Tony Hogrefe

 
I can't imagine a hotel chain paying gallery prices for art work, but you don't want to work for peanuts either.

I don't sell my work this way, but if I did, I'd probably treat it like any other art work I sell.
selling a $2 print for $20 is fairly arbitrary. Sure, you've more than covered the cost of production, but what is your time worth? How long did it take to produce the final image?

If you spent 4 hours retouching a digital image, and you sell it for $20, subtract the $2 cost to print, you just made $4.50 per hour for your time. This doesn't even take into consideration the time spent in the field actually taking the photo in the first place.

If you're getting into producing images that will generate income for a client, that is another bowl of wax altogether. If you sell an image to a company, say a photo of their product, and you charge them $20 for that image, would you feel like you got ripped off if they use that photo to generate $1,000,000 in sales?
 
Posted by AMH Photography on February 9, 2008 - Saturday - 11:17 PM
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Photography by Lena
Lena Hamilton

 
Thanks for the advice! That will help out a lot!
 
Posted by Photography by Lena on February 11, 2008 - Monday - 5:40 AM
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