----- Original Message ----- From: "Bobbie Blazy" <stopbarking@earthlink.net> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@listserver.isc.rit.edu> Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:39 AM Subject: Re: Pricing.......... > > Russ, > > Allow me to ask again. > What is your sitting fee? > > Do you have a studio you are paying for, > equipment loans, leases, > electric, water, darkroom, business phone, > business vehicle, etc. > All of this and more needs to be taken into > consideration. > > Please give a bit more info on your > circumstances. > > Many thanks, > Bobbie Blazy > > > > > Ok................... I do Photography as a business, but as a sideline to my regular job as a Dark Room Lab Tech at a Document Management Co. I can use floor space where my day job is after hours (nights and weekends)for my studio space. I have my own dark room on the premises also. No rent no utilities. I do pay a small amount yearly for liability insurance. My home phone is also my business phone. Everything I make as a Photographer goes back in to the business. As in buying more toys er...equipment, supplies(film and paper etc) and my direct mailing which is the only publicity I do aside from word of mouth. I am not generally too concerned about how much an hour I am making but I have no idea of what's fair market value of my work. I have been charging $30.00 for the sitting(b&w) using the old fashioned idea of only covering the cost of the sitting and try to get the mark up on the prints. I usually charge $10.00 for an b&w 8x10 printed on RC paper. Other sizes accordingly........... (remember that I am not real concerned about my time) I work almost entirely with people in the Performing Arts who for the most part love photos of themselves but are also as poor as churchmice................ On the occasion that I look at books about pricing they seem to be geared towards the "Big Time Studio" rather than towards the small time guys......... I have been doing Photography since I was 12 (lets see......that was in 1966) and I have been working at it Professionally for about12 years...... I still have no idea how to out together a price list...... Russ R.E. Baker Photography rebphoto@pronetisp.net
