Advice please!

Colin_da_Killer · 24 Oct 2006 at 18:31

Right, to all you pro photographers here. If you were covering a club event or an event of such nature and youworked 7 hours in total (including editing) how much would you charge and if the client never stated how many photos they expected in total, how many would you provide?

This in regards to

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17632205

To those itnerested about what is going on, is this guy is really taking the GOVERNMENT ISSUED LANGUAGE FORM now about this all and I am seriously contemplating taking him to a small court about it!

Colin_da_Killer · 24 Oct 2006 at 18:41

cmt said:
A good starting point is £50 per Hour. As for the court, wopuld it not be a case of his word against yours? (unless there was something in writing - which reading the other thread i doubt)

cmt

There were 2 other people at the table that heard the conversation between us and would be willing to testify about it. A verbal contract is legally binding under Scottish Law.

Colin_da_Killer · 24 Oct 2006 at 20:30

FranchiseJuan said:
I would normally only be charging for time on site. So editing time is normally included in the package for me. 50-70 seems reasonable to me.

Are you saying £50-£70 per hour or 50-70 photos?

Colin_da_Killer · 24 Oct 2006 at 23:00

stuart38 said:
Take £50 and be chuffed with yourself for having paid work!

You didn't go out with the intention of making money so anythings a bonus

Your right, but I did intend to go out and have a fun evening with my friends, have a few drinks, do a few dances. Instead, I took photos the whole evening though... so no, if he had offered £50 at the start i would have said no!

Colin_da_Killer · 24 Oct 2006 at 23:40

Fstop11 said:
Is he saying he doesnt want to offer you £50 after originally saying so?

No, he is saying he wants to offer £50 after originally offering £100!

Colin_da_Killer · 25 Oct 2006 at 09:54

I have not given him the photos yet, I'm not that naive (spelling?)

Colin_da_Killer · 25 Oct 2006 at 17:21

I met with him this afternoon and it went better than expected, I had typed out previously 5 pages about the whole experience and printed out and produced it to him. He wasn't too interested in reading it but he knew I was in the right about it.

I am to give him all the images tomorrow on a cd (161 images only 47 edited) and he will pay me the full £100.

He also wants me to do some other jobs as a graphic designer / website designer for him but I'm still concerned whether he would make a good client.