OK, so we don't give it away. Let me put this question out to all you people who do this for a living, or for other income. How much should I charge? What is a fair price for myself but would be also fair to the other party?
Let's start at a level that I would say a lot of us here on this site are at. We have a good eye for photo's and we have a mid range camera that we can produce appealing photo's with. We have some of our photo's posted on a Web site or someone has seen some of our work another way. Now we are asked "Can I get a copy of that photo? or I really like that photo, can I have a copy of it? I'll pay you for it."
What do we charge? I can't charge by the hour, because I haven't hit the big league yet, and it was a random shot I took while out shooting one day. We don't get that many requests for this so we don't print our own photo's, so buying a higher end printer at this point in time to lower our cost is appealing, but requests are so low it will not offset the cost. So all our prints are sent out to be printed.
So what percent of a mark up would we use above our cost that would be fair to both parties?
The second question is using the same scenario, what we charge a company or an advertising company if we were approached for the use of a copyright to one of our files? What would we charge now, I have no real cost, where do I start now? How do I mark up?
I understand that the link provided mainly deals with the second question, but on the other hand, the first question is something I am running into with some of my photo's and people wanting them or offering to buy them.
I don't want to "Give it away"