I need every ones input on this, especially from those of you who have done commercial photography or are represented by stock agency's.

I have the opportunity to do some photography for a company that is interested in building their image library. They offer their clients the ability to create those small, medium & large post card mailers that you find in your mailbox on any given day. I think most of their clients are people that deal in real estate.

Any hoo after discussing their needs, they were interested in having me do some photography of high end homes, interiors, doors, landscapes etc. basically they want all types of images.

They don't want to pay me by the hour, they want to pay me on a per image basis. I have never done this type of photography, so I am trying to figure out how to price my images.

Can anyone give me some ideas? Oh & they also want some usage rights. They are not interested in selling the images, they are basically turned off by the number of uses they are limited to by stock agency's. They want their clients to have the freedom & ability to use & reuse an image X amount of times, when they create their own mailers.

Appreciate your help in advance,

Hey Carlos, I will say this: Exculsivity=$$$

I shot for a company that wanted the same thing. It was for a product that they wanted to market to schools. At the time I would have agreed to anything, but instead I charged them a flat rate of $675 for 4 hours. This is super cheap! But what are you going to do. As a matter of fact, I think there is a website out there that you could check out. There is a fee involved. I think it is something like "photoquote" or something like that. I think I read about it on zuga.net. Basically it is a national, perhaps international, quoting system for professional photographers to be able to quote jobs at the "going" rate.

Maybe do a goggle search for it.

Good luck, and don't sell yourself to cheap:)

Rob

Carlos,

I found another set of posts that are way more helpful than mine.

http://davidjay.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=481

Just in case you haven't read it.

Rob