Exclusive rights & a full day of coverage for $1000 too steep?!?!? SERIOUSLY!!

[Brinr]

So I got contacted about shooting for the Las Vegas Metro Chamber of commerce this thursday and I told them ok $600 for a full day regular stuff. I mean that's cheap to start out right? So then they say they want completely exclusive rights to use the images and I said well it doesn't really work that way, they are my images and I get to use them. They wouldn't budge on the issue so I said fine how about $1000 instead and you can have the rights and they said it was too steep. I mean am I wrong here or are they frickin high?

 

[KmH]

Often it boils down to salesmanship and negotiating skills.

 

[TheoGraphics]

$1,000 for a full day's shooting AND full rights to the photos is BS. Too many businesses are trying to get photographers to work for free, continuously devaluing our trade. Stand your ground.

 

[Brinr]

Ha ha maybe I suck at negotiating, I'm not a salesman, I'm a photographer ha ha. I'm slammed as it is, she can fly someone else up from Vegas. Ground stood ha ha

 

[KmH]

Who Pays Photographers

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[Brinr]

Thanks KmH, this will be useful for the future

 

[KmH]

The Photographer's Guide to Negotiating

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You might want to start wondering just how much money you may be consistently leaving on the table.
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