How much do you charge an hour for photo services

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!SammySpectacular Jun 20, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

I never know what to price my services as, I usually do $50 an hour , is that to little or to much?

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~Glory-Of-Valor Jun 25, 2012 Professional Photographer

I get paid 30$/hr through the city, but this includes every little thing, from reading e-mails and just driving to a location, so it adds up.
For other clientele around the city I charge 75$ an hour, until we work out a full contract, invoices with materials and resources used and such on. So that ends up being a flat fee on top of the other charges.
Bare in mind, I deal with businesses and corporations.

So I'm not sure if that helps you to much.
You need to charge according to your clients, talents, and of course time. Remember, you if you are charging per hour of shooting you still need to figure in your time editing and other miscellaneous costs needed to produce your final results.
Though if you are just trying to do portraiture pictures...you're going to need to turn it into a business, otherwise, your 50$/hr price will either not get you enough work. Try working for a studio, or seeing about large scale photography, like school portraits, those photogs can make upwards to about 3,000$ for a day of shooting. You'll need to sell and advertise yourself to schools and potential clients, let them know what you can do for them. Also keep in mind, you won't make 3$k a day, every day, but once a month, is really good money still.
You need to find a niche, market yourself to them, then you can make money. To me, it sounds like you are just trying to "Shoot pictures for money", something that general and nondescript will get you nothing. Market yourself according to what you like to do.

!SammySpectacular Jun 26, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

No, that's very wrong I'm trying to shoot pictures for people, to make them happy and make them memories to share with family, I just want to turn it into a business I used to do it for free to get experience but no one took me serious, they saw me as Oh that's Sam she's just the girl that takes pictures . I had friends that would use me for pictures they would take my photo's , re edit them and mess all my hard work up. So I've started branching out and trying to make a business into it, trying to organize it to where people take me more seriously. I don't do it for money, I want to do it to put smiles on peoples faces and give them something they could share, but I want it in a business way

~shiosVIP Jun 25, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

$10 an hour because it brings in more business and I'm not so full of myself that I think my pictures are worth more than that. I do this for fun.

~Svenler Jun 24, 2012 Professional Photographer

You charge whatever your market bears.

Read this: [link]

This was aimed at models, but the same logic applies to photographers as well.

!SammySpectacular Jun 24, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

thanks! that helps out a lot appreciate the link I'll save it for future reference

^Kaz-D Jun 22, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

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!SammySpectacular Jun 22, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

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will definitely give it a fav

`FallisPhoto Jun 21, 2012

$50 per hour for weddings is ridiculously low -- seriously. Besides that, you don't charge per hour for weddings; you do package deals. If you are an amateur and don't do a whole lot of these, $1000 would be on the very low side. For a pro, shooting digital, $3000 would be about what a competent beginner would charge (it goes WAY up from there). You will be shooting a lot, BTW, not two photos, as =SammySpectacular says that girl does, or even 200; more like 500. Of those, you'll keep, edit and print maybe 10 or 12.

!SammySpectacular Jun 21, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

yeah I usually get about 19 finished ones but I take tons of the same angles and then switch diff angles I go around and take tons of images of different things then go home and look through them all I got about 309 images total at the Vacation bible school thing I did and surprisingly over 150 of them made the cut for the church I was happy with that. but with pricing since I have my boyfriend as my companion with music and my photo's we could easily make $5,000 in one night together.

`FallisPhoto Jun 21, 2012

Well, if you can get two or more good prints per roll of film (36 exposures) you are doing good.

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