LINCOLN BARBOUR PHOTO » photography pricing http://www.lincolnbarbour.com Awesome Photography of Architecture, Travel, Lifestyle, and Food Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:04:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pricing Photography for Image Libraries http://www.lincolnbarbour.com/blog/2010/07/27/pricing-photography-for-image-libraries-2/ http://www.lincolnbarbour.com/blog/2010/07/27/pricing-photography-for-image-libraries-2/#comments Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:19:12 +0000 Lincoln Barbour http://www.lincolnbarbour.com/?p=6021 “…in a world where photographers traditionally price their product based on usage, what is “unlimited” use worth? There have always been photographers who intentionally or unknowingly ignore the subject of licensing, or otherwise simply give away unlimited use of their pictures without charging a premium for it. Those tend to be young photographers who don’t know any better, or established photographers who have found that it’s the only way they can compete, or they couldn’t be bothered with the extra work involved in understanding how image licensing works and explaining it to their clients.

However, in most of these cases, pricing photography “by the day” is a dysfunctional system, and not in the interests of the photographer or the client. There’s an inherent conflict when a photographer is compensated in inverse proportion to her productivity. The more photographs she produces, the less she is paid for each of them. Any photographer’s natural motivation will be to produce enough work to satisfy the expectations of the client, and no more. That is no way to run a business.”

by Jess Dudley

via A Photo Editor – Real World Estimates – Pricing Photography for Image Libraries.

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