Portrait Work Price's

[Andy77]

Hi guy's, Ive been doing a few shoots for friends ect and after word of mouth i now have quite a few people asking me to take some portraits of their kids ect. The question i need to ask is what to charge them , i'm thinking of giving it ago as a mobile portrait photographer going to people home's ect to do shoot's.... I'm not a pro tog by all means but feel i produce some good quality photo's. I just need pointing in the right direction as pricing goes.........

e.g What to charge for an :

A4 print
8 x 10
10 x 12
12 x 16 ect ect.....

Thanks in advance

Andy

 

[..MD..]

Hi guy's, Ive been doing a few shoots for friends ect and after word of mouth i now have quite a few people asking me to take some portraits of their kids ect. The question i need to ask is what to charge them , i'm thinking of giving it ago as a mobile portrait photographer going to people home's ect to do shoot's.... I'm not a pro tog by all means but feel i produce some good quality photo's. I just need pointing in the right direction as pricing goes.........

e.g What to charge for an :

A4 print
8 x 10
10 x 12
12 x 16 ect ect.....

Thanks in advance

Andy

What will be the cost of your prints....?

eg. If I ordered one 8x12 print from you what would it cost you to get it delivered..?


NO point saying £10 If the print costs you £2 and the postage costs you £4

That would mean you made £ 4

Just to get you thinking...!!!

MD

 

[..MD..]

I look forward to any other replys to this thread..

MD

 

[andiphoto]

at the moment, im charging £35 for 16x12 and i make a good profit... probs could make more but im still trying to build up a customer base.

just as an example.

 

[boyfalldown]

at the moment, im charging £35 for 16x12 and i make a good profit... probs could make more but im still trying to build up a customer base.

just as an example.

The trouble is if you charge £35 for a 16 x 12 and thats all you sell from a portraiat session then that is not a good profit.

Say for the sake of arguement the print costs you £2 and postage £4 thats £29 profit, but from that £29 you've got to get to and from the client, set up your lights, pay for and maintain your kit, buy insurance, advertise etc. etc. Its not a great profit. You need to aork out what all these costs are before you calculate your costs

If you look at the people running profitable portrait businesses they all talk about minimum spend per session - how much they need to make per client not how much the mark up a size of print.