Thank you E.L. Shapiro and Gene51. All very good information and Gene51 is correct, I am not doing this to make a living. I retired a year ago and now spend more time on my passion. I am out promoting myself for portraits and some work with wineries (just picked up another one too). So while I want to make some money, at this point in my life I am not interested in getting too bogged down.
I am revisiting this post because I have now received interest in taking some pictures for a publication that promotes a destination to potential visitors. So, they are in need of pictures of places of interest in their area. I am still working on just how many and the types, but they are close to 100 miles away from me, so travel costs are now on the table. I think I have that figured out, but am still battling with what to charge for my services that will be fair and reasonable and will ensure future business. Again, not trying to make a killing, but rather to continue my passion. It sounds from these replies that charging a rate for the job is common and that it should include X number of images. I have shot weddings and have priced at $150 an hour for shooting time which includes PP, so nothing additional for PP. Once complete, however, the total hours invested are generally twice the shooting hours, so all totaled is about $75 per hour. I have also shot Bar/Bat Mitzvahs at the same rate. In both cases, all final images are provided via electronic download.
Samples of my work can be found at
https://prestonphotography.passgallery.com/portfolio?brandId=0 Thank you all once again for taking the time to educate me.
Sorry, I am a newbie and did not realize I sent a blank. I was just looking at your post. No interest right now but good luck!!
All good information. Thanks to everyone for your perspectives. I wanted to see if there was some compelling reason to have the same body as a way to avoid upgrading both at the same time. Buying one camera at a time is certainly less expensive. I think I will continue with my D750 and D300s for a while. Thanks again!!
...And I have both a FX and a DX, so this makes sense. I shoot more than nature/wildlife too - portraits - and would not have a need for my long zoom, but sometimes will use a second lens. Thanks for the ideas.
For those of you who carry two cameras, are both the same model or do you have two different models and why for either answer?
You clearly have a better eye than your camera. Love the way the outer edges of the image fade away. Well done!!!
I actually have both your lenses and love them to pieces, but for different uses and situations. I agree with others that you will get used to the weight in time and selecting another lens will only reduce your weight by a small fraction and I am not sure you would really notice the difference.
Welcome to the UHH too!!
Thank you for your comments. I was weighing $50 as well but also taking into account that they could take the same picture with their cell phone. Mine is better, of course, but it is not the kind of image that could NOT be repeated. Nothing really unique about it that couldn't be duplicated by a cell phone or family member with a camera.
Appreciate the comments.
Ha, ha. I like your answer anyway!! Thank you.
Greetings all!! My first post, so hopefully no mistakes. I have been doing some work for a local winery and providing images on some high quality note cards that they sell in their tasting room. It has been going well so far, but after proposing I could also provide images for their web site, wall art, etc., they now have interest in that. I typically charge for downloads and do little printing (don't have to pay/report sales tax for electronic delivery in CA.). For some portrait work I do, I charge $25 per image, but discount with volumes. With the winery question, I am wondering if $25 is enough. I know the answer always will include "well, that depends", and I understand that. I am wondering what others are doing/charging so I can make a decision.
Does anyone have experience in selling images to a business for their advertising use and what kinds of rates are expected?
Thank you.