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Right, two questions here..
First, I've been finding myself doing quite a few "small" photographic jobs lately. Stuff that only takes an hour or so. That's great (I'm all for anything at the moment) but it's tough to know what to charge.
As a general figure I'm charging about £20 / hour - bearing in mind that it usually takes me about that long again to process and upload the photos, and I provide "free" (included in the price) proof 6*4" prints.
Now I don't want to charge too much at the moment, because I'm more interested in getting my name out than actually making significant amounts of moolah.. But do you think that's a reasonable figure?
Aaaand second, I'm not so sure what to do with photos once I've done a shoot and the customer has prints! What is standard practice here? At the moment I'm pretty much saying that I'll indefinitely archive them.. Thing is, that's extra work and physical space, and unless I have several backups, there's always the risk of loss in one form or another.
I could always provide the finished photos to the customer, so that it's "on their head" to look after them.. But then that will inevitably cut me out of the printing loop. Not to mention I'm not keen on customers popping down to Asda's or whatever to reem off some prints! (makes my work look potentially dodgy!)
So what to people recommend I do about this? Just suck it and get on with archiving properly?
Cheers for any advice on either
First, I've been finding myself doing quite a few "small" photographic jobs lately. Stuff that only takes an hour or so. That's great (I'm all for anything at the moment) but it's tough to know what to charge.
As a general figure I'm charging about £20 / hour - bearing in mind that it usually takes me about that long again to process and upload the photos, and I provide "free" (included in the price) proof 6*4" prints.
Now I don't want to charge too much at the moment, because I'm more interested in getting my name out than actually making significant amounts of moolah.. But do you think that's a reasonable figure?
Aaaand second, I'm not so sure what to do with photos once I've done a shoot and the customer has prints! What is standard practice here? At the moment I'm pretty much saying that I'll indefinitely archive them.. Thing is, that's extra work and physical space, and unless I have several backups, there's always the risk of loss in one form or another.
I could always provide the finished photos to the customer, so that it's "on their head" to look after them.. But then that will inevitably cut me out of the printing loop. Not to mention I'm not keen on customers popping down to Asda's or whatever to reem off some prints! (makes my work look potentially dodgy!)
So what to people recommend I do about this? Just suck it and get on with archiving properly?
Cheers for any advice on either
Definetly backup the photos. Proof you took them for one. You never know if you might need them later too.
