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Posted August 12, 2011|Latest activity May 13, 2013

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Hello All,

I have recently started down the road to doing more commercial based photography assignments. To build up my work in this area I am contacting people who are a good fit for my style of commercial composite imagery to do a shoot.

Typically one of these session runs 2 hours for the actual photo shot and typically 3-4 hours a piece per image in post production. I am doing conceptual images that require composite work which is why the hours build up. Typically I deliver 3 final images in this format.

My dilema is if and how I should ask the person to pay for this. I struggle with this since I am reaching out to them to do the shoot. Should I waive my typical session fee but still charge something for the composite time? Or should I waive my creative services fee entirely and just make them pay for any prints they are interested in and/or licensing?

If anyone has run into this or has some advice on this I would greatly appreciate it.
Many Thanks! 

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It sounds like you are simply introducing the service you offer to people/businesses that would benefit from the service. That's something like cold-calling sales, so quote your regular price.

If there's a particular person/company you WANT to work with to get the ball rolling in this particular discipline of photography, offer them some sort of heavy discount on the creative fee, BUT make sure you get a release to use the work to actively promote this aspect of your business.

At least, that's how I'd do it ...

Best of luck, let us know how it goes!

Commented August 12, 2011

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To me it sounds like you have to decide if you are cold calling as Tanya suggested or if you are partnering with someone to create portfolio pieces. If this is cold calling then by all means charge your full rate because it will very tough to raise your rates later on. If you are working on your portfolio, I would use barter. Offer prints to models, limited usage of images to property owners etc. 

Commented August 13, 2011

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