Photo Pricing ?

Bears and Vodka

I need help/advice on a situation that arose recently

Briefly speaking, I'm not a professional photographer or a photographer at all. I'm a student and photography is just my hobby. I have decent gear and I just take photos, edit them and upload them to sites like Flickr. For fun.

Few months ago, few of my photos were printed in a local calendar (with my permission of course). Today, I found out that a person wants to buy one of my photos to print it in some way for her Dad's birthday, so she is asking for a price for the photo. And strictly speaking, I haven't the foggiest how much I should charge, but obviously I would like to sell the photo if someone is willing to buy it!

So, any help with the pricing? How its determined, what the rates for that kinda stuff in Ireland would be, even roughly?

Thanks!

pullandbang

€25

dazftw

Yeah €25 sounds good. I've always been of the mindset sell prints cheaper and you'll probably sell more. No need to go charging a few hundred a print.

Not sure how the above two agreed on €25 without knowing the print size, to be honest.

OP, if I were you I'd go to a proper print store (not Harvey Norman or Tesco), and take their prices, multiply by five, and then go from there.

So if an 8x10 is €5, charge €25. If an 8x6 is €2, charge €10, etc.

Make a floor and ceiling on your price. Make sure you're making at least x, but no more than y. (so if she wants a 6x4, make sure you're making at least €10 off it, but if she wants a gigantic poster print, cap your profit at €50 for a single print, for example).


Those prices are examples, of course. Start your sizing at 8x6 (or the nearest to it, depending on the aspect of the photograph). Offer to frame it for her in a 'professional' frame (something expensive and good looking. She'll say no, but still offer it anyway).

Start your sizing at 8x6 because 6x4s generally look crap, and people are used to seeing them, so your photo won't stand out. Be courteous and professional and make sure you buy a hardback envelope for the print (don't give it to her in the packaging that has the shops name all over it!). If you have to post it, factor that into your price (and the cost of the envelope).


And avoid giving her the digital file. At least not the full size one anyway. If she's insistent that it's the digital copy she wants, offer to sell her it resized to 800 pixels (should be suitable for standard printing) for three times the print price. Realise that once you give the digital file up she'll never need you for that photo again. Also realise this is 2012 and most people don't want prints and would rather the digital file. Double edged sword.


That'd be my take on it, anyway.

puss

When you say she wants to print it in some way - does that mean she wants a jpeg of the photo and not an actual print?

stcstc

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OP, if I were you I'd go to a proper print store (not Harvey Norman or Tesco), and take their prices, multiply by five, and then go from there.

PROPER print store

dude you need to network more, these places are NOT proper print stores

pro labs make proper prints

place like mine, gms, photolabs etc

Adrian.Sadlier

stcstc wrote: »

PROPER print store

dude you need to network more, these places are NOT proper print stores

pro labs make proper prints

place like mine, gms, photolabs etc

I think you missed the word NOT in his post :-)

stcstc

doh

sorry, it was early :-))

stcstc

stcstc wrote: »

doh

sorry, it was early :-))

How dare you bring the quality of Tesco printing into disrepute!!! :mad:




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