What to charge :S

£20ph. She's running a business; she's not an OAP. Get a fair price for your specialist skill...and it is a specialist skill, because the average bod like her or I can't do it.
 
she could be a freelance architect though , therefore not earning enough to justify 20 p/h

sneakily ask local competition there prices to make shure she cant find a better deal
 
Go for £30 an hour. She'll easily be charging double that for the work you're producing (if she knows what she's doing).
 
andy8271 said:
sneakily ask local competition there prices to make shure she cant find a better deal
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So if she finds someone willing to work for £1 an hour, he should drop his price to that?
 
Shes not a freelance architect she manages her own company shes the architect :P

Ill try and see if i can check around for competition prices tho :) thanks for the advice
 
Bugger all really.

Web designers etc are two a penny nowadays.

I would guess at £8-10 an hour, personally as a customer I would want to be charged a set rate as opposed to an hourly rate.
 
You're def underselling your skills at <£10/hr. £20+ I would guess, but like others have said - what would be the going market rate be if she went elsewhere?
Until you know that you can't decide. I'd personally opt for charging her about 75% of the going market rate.
 
Do you know the context in which these pictures are used?

Are they part of a proposal to clients? If so, what sort of sized project? There's a difference between the costs she'll absorb on a £10,000 project to what she'll absorb on a £10m project.

Are these images part of cost that she passes on to her client, or is it her overhead?

Do you know the importance of the images to the proposal? Is it a case of her using them if she can get a good rate, but would just omit them if they're too expensive, or would she have to get them done elsewhere?

You need to compare the cost of the prepared images from other people, not the hourly rate. If someone else can do the same work, but is twice as quick, you can't charge a high rate because you're slow.

These are the types of questions that will tell what what the market can bear.
 
Just clock up your time and charge no less than 20 pounds per hour. I charge €50 per hour for everything I do, IT repairs, webdev, etc.
 
Basically she uses these pictures in her presentations to clients and it is using these pictures that he clients soemtimes decide to go ahead or not go ahead with certain changes that this architect is proposing :P

She has regularly mentioned some of the pictures as being 'urgent' :P
 
Right. I'll decide for you.

£10-15ph, but £20-25ph for those that are 'urgent' as you had to put other important things (family? friends? kids?) to one isde....?
 
Surely, this is something that should have been dicussed before you commenced any work.

If I was starting a project with someone I would definitely want to know whether it was going to be a fixed fee or based on hours and if so at what rate. If it was based on hours I would want to know how many hours are estimated and have a maximum cap.
 
I charge £15 per hour for my post processing work and webdesign (only updates though, not initial design).

Get in to doing the photography too, then you're looking at £50 for up to to hours (even if it's only a 30 minute job you still get the full whack).
 
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