I'm putting together a quote for a community services organization that wants me to photograph at-risk families at an upcoming event. I would be bringing my laptop and printer to facilitate the on-site printing of the posters/images they want to distribute free-of-charge to the families that come.
I have a couple questions about how to go about putting together my quote:
How do I charge for the use of my printer (the organization would be buying the consumables-paper and ink-themselves)?
How do I account for the use of my laptop during the event?
Other details:
We're estimating about a 4-hour window where my services would be used.
There is a possibility of a maximum of 100 families coming to the event (with the likelihood that not everyone would want an image)
The organization would want to own the rights to the images after all is said and done.
Based on these things, what advice can you give on how I can put together a fair and accurate quote?
Thanks,
Curtis
__________________ Curtis Cunningham
Photography and Graphic Design www.photistry.com
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At this point I don't think there will be time. I think it's going to be pretty much like an assembly line: shoot image, load image on laptop, place image in InDesign poster/image template (there will be a maximum of three different designs used for the poster) and then print image for family to take with them.
The coordinator I met with this afternoon wants the poster/image printed in Black and White, so I have to figure out if it's better to: A) just choose the grayscale option on my printer and print the colour image or B) convert the colour image into a B&W image and print from there.
The challenge with converting the image to B&W is that we would already by under the gun time-wise to get all the people through in the allotted time, that to add one more (possibly) time consuming step into the mix may be too much.
What do you suggest?
__________________ Curtis Cunningham
Photography and Graphic Design www.photistry.com
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
shoot jpg on b/w mode with the red, yellow, or orange filter setting. thats the only way i see working for you. capture one is good for b/w and good for batch processing, but you would have to do all the conversions at the end.
shoot jpg on b/w mode with the red, yellow, or orange filter setting. thats the only way i see working for you.
I've never done this before, but I'm interested to try it out to see what the results are.
The challenge to just shooting B&W for the posters is if the organization wants to use the images for other purposes afterwards that require colour, they they're out of luck...
__________________ Curtis Cunningham
Photography and Graphic Design www.photistry.com
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
Let's see, Portraits of 100 families, printed poster size (what size), 4 hours, if that if you were printing 8x10 (not a big poster) that could be 1-3 minutes per print You are talking 1hour 40 minutes best case for printing..
That is a bit of media too: and supplies for an onsite printer.
at $25 for an 8x10 you are at $2500, and that is rather low IMO. Not to mention the group wanted usage of the images. So you have a usage price to add on.
The above price is a for instance price.
Ed
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Not a big one. They're just looking for something on an 8.5x11. Basically an image in the middle of the page with some pre-formatted text. I should be able to design the template ahead of time and drop an image in as needed.
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Originally Posted by Ed_J_Szalajeski
Portraits of 100 families...if you were printing 8x10 (not a big poster) that could be 1-3 minutes per print
The 100 families...that's what the organizers HOPE will come. So we talked about shooting and printing in batches of 10. The other idea is to hire someone to assist me that can handle the printing side of things, so I can focus on the photography. IF we go this route it would obviously cost the committee, but this is something I didn't think about until after my meeting this afternoon.
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Originally Posted by Ed_J_Szalajeski
That is a bit of media too: and supplies for an onsite printer.
The organizing committee is footing the bill for the consumables (paper and ink). There's a possibility of replicating this event multiple times if they're happy with my quote. So this way they can buy the ink and paper in bulk ahead of time and perhaps get a non-profit discounted rate on the supplies.
__________________ Curtis Cunningham
Photography and Graphic Design www.photistry.com
White Balance so easy, even our 5 year old can do it.- Melissa Strickland
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