Okay. So what I want to do is offer two things.

1. "Clean" processing basically Lightroom processing to ensure good WB, and all that jazz.
2. "Artistic" processing to add fun textures, effects what not. I also figured I'd include blemish removal/what not under this as well.

How should I word it? I guess what I have in my mind is that I would run through the images to remove any obvious blemishes or perhaps slightly liquify a chin here and thing or lighten up heavy under eye circles. All things I can do pretty quickly.

So the possible problem with THAT is what if someone has pretty serious acne and it's very visible in every photo? Do I just take the hits with the misses and end up spending way more hours in that circumstance? Has anyone run into that situation?

My other question is.. when it comes to artistic plays.. I don't know how to word it that says "Some but not 800 images" Haha. Not every image wants the same effect, different images call for different styles of "artsy" crap. Hmm.. Hopefully what I'm saying is coming across.

Any tips? Does anyone else have kind of two layers like this? I was inspired by the image is found's process (not trying to duplicate their LOOk really, but I like the pricing model).

Thanks..

This is tricky... I knew a few other people have looked at this question too...

I usualy do some basic processing to all of the photos, and then I choose 15-30 that i touch up more. I don't usually offer my clients a choice, since they trust me, that my artistically edited image looks better than the original. Are you wanting to charge more for the artistic editing? Or, what is your reason for wanting to do that?

I tell them that every photo gets basic color pop and such, and that I will choose to artistically edit the ones that I know will look amazing with it, my favorites, etc. Then they can request up to 15 more images that I will go all-out and do anything I can to (re-do their chin, etc.). More would be extra.


My contract:



Disclaimer: Not lawyer-approved!


Edit: it's funny when I read it now, because pretty much every image *does* have a vignette, but I just don't take the the ones I want into Photoshop.

Thanks for your responses.

I have pretty much just figured at this point, I am going to go the lines of using my artistic vision to pick which ones call for artistic editing. And any they pick for prints will be fine tuned, as well. I think I've pretty much worked it out.

Not that we have a ton of experience yet, but this is what we've been doing - we do basic lightroom corrections on the proofs/cds we give out, and then a select number are "enhanced" or "album ready". After reading some threads here, we've decided against releasing those images electronically, they can either order prints or put it in an album.

We made a graphic to explain this visually:
http://westparkphoto.com/stuff/proofexample.jpg

Touch-ups that go beyond the number of enhancements specified in their contract go for a flat fee per image.

Again, the idea for the graphic was inspired by a post here on OSP as well.

I think that's a good idea to give them a little graphic representation... I know a lot of people don't really understand the whole process.

I do have a little graphic to show the difference between the clean edit and the artistically processed edit in my wedding price pdf now. I saw that several places so I was going to go with that idea..