Our Professional Photography Rates
Commercial prices – Jan – 2011
Are you curious about our professional photographer rates? Our rates will vary depending upon your specific needs. Quite often our clients have unique requirements.
In most cases we provide a PDF quote after hearing about our clients’ specific brief, however as a very rough guide below is some typical guide prices for our commercial photography services. Entry points are from as low as £125, so we can fit within most marketing budgets. Here’s a summary of our professional photographer rates.
1st hour rate : from £125 – subsequent hours charged at £75
HALF DAY rate (3-4 HOURS) : from £ 300
FULL DAY rate (7-8 HOURS) : from £500
For larger or more complex projects with multiple days of shooting a discounted day rate can be negotiated.
Additional charges:
Post Processing: (general sharpening, colour balance, exposure and some artefact removal); generally 1 hour on a half day shoot or 2 hours on a full day. – this excludes major manipulation. Major manipulation is on an image per image basis and is only after discussion with the client.
Bespoke online proofing gallery. Depending on the client specifications and intended usage of the resultant images, an image license may also factor into the overall costing. This is looked at on a per job basis. For intensive projects requiring full lighting setups and multiple locations, we provide a shooting assistant at no extra cost.
For PR and corporate portraiture work, the above prices may not be applicable and will be quoted for on a job by job basis.
Traveling expenses are negotiable, and depend upon exact locations. 40 pence per mile is our usual charge for jobs further than a 20mile radius surrounding Manchester.
Travel time to your shoot is charged at £25 per hour, if the travel time exceeds 1hour.
Hotels, flights and expenses (for UK and non-UK commissions) are charged at cost.
Price includes delivery of images by one of the following choices: CD/DVD, FTP or email (file size permitting).
Questions about our photographer rates?
If you would like any further information on our rates please contact us.
In the meantime if you have further questions you may like to check out the frequently ask questions page.
