Hi all,
I'm what they call a busy fool.
About seven years ago I started photographing the running races that my wife ran; it was a way of supporting and killing time. I'd upload the images to facebook and I got fairly good at it.
Eventually a running events company asked me if I'd photograph their series of races for payment. I was seriously flattered to be asked and said 'Yes'. They offered a fairly low payment (£120) per race. I'm actually okay with that, still, because all their races are short and local, often in the evening. So a few hours work including travelling, and about three-or-four hours editing.
But then another running event business asked me to photograph their series of races, then another, and another, and I've ended up with four running event businesses to photograph their series of races. There's that many they often clash and my wife has told me not to take any more photography work, other than the jobs I've already got on. Quite a few of these jobs are 100 mile ultra marathons, so I'm away all weekend. After lockdown I had three 100 milers in a four week period to photograph, one in extreme heat, the other two in the mountains and they're physically challenging.
I'm a self employed window cleaner so it's easy to arrange to take time off during the week to edit and recover.
But here's the thing, I'm embarrassingly cheap. I'm charging £250 quid per job. Yesterday's was 'okay', it was just a 32 mile ultra marathon, but for the bigger jobs that go all weekend, plus a day's editing, I still charge the same (£250).
So what should I be charging? And what/how should I do to increase what I charge?
Advice and kickings happily accepted.
Wab
I'm what they call a busy fool.
About seven years ago I started photographing the running races that my wife ran; it was a way of supporting and killing time. I'd upload the images to facebook and I got fairly good at it.
Eventually a running events company asked me if I'd photograph their series of races for payment. I was seriously flattered to be asked and said 'Yes'. They offered a fairly low payment (£120) per race. I'm actually okay with that, still, because all their races are short and local, often in the evening. So a few hours work including travelling, and about three-or-four hours editing.
But then another running event business asked me to photograph their series of races, then another, and another, and I've ended up with four running event businesses to photograph their series of races. There's that many they often clash and my wife has told me not to take any more photography work, other than the jobs I've already got on. Quite a few of these jobs are 100 mile ultra marathons, so I'm away all weekend. After lockdown I had three 100 milers in a four week period to photograph, one in extreme heat, the other two in the mountains and they're physically challenging.
I'm a self employed window cleaner so it's easy to arrange to take time off during the week to edit and recover.
But here's the thing, I'm embarrassingly cheap. I'm charging £250 quid per job. Yesterday's was 'okay', it was just a 32 mile ultra marathon, but for the bigger jobs that go all weekend, plus a day's editing, I still charge the same (£250).
So what should I be charging? And what/how should I do to increase what I charge?
Advice and kickings happily accepted.
Wab