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<blockquote data-quote="Eyelight" data-source="post: 308145" data-attributes="member: 24753">Nothing at all against gifting ones talents to the community, school, your neighbor, best friend, only friend, dog's friend's master, etc.&nbsp; It is a great opportunity to give to the charity of ones choice, but giving away quality work in a commercial setting allows the commercial entity to take advantage of the giver of quality work and actually hurts the photographers who feed their family doing the same thing.&nbsp; Notice the term quality work.&nbsp; If one's work is quality they should be asking and getting a quality price.&nbsp; In this setting a quality photo should be worth the same regardless of who created it.&nbsp; If the commercial entity were to simply buy 10 stock photos for non-exclusive use, they could be laying out $2,500 or more.&nbsp; In this case their getting custom work and their intent is to make more money for themselves. So, I wouldn't hesitate to ask a quality price for quality work.I would be thinking $300 per usable photo.&nbsp; I may not get much work, but I would be enjoying every minute of it when I do. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Make sure they know that you want to work with them and whatever price you offer to them, simply add the question, &quot;Does this fit your budget?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Eyelight, post: 308145, member: 24753"] Nothing at all against gifting ones talents to the community, school, your neighbor, best friend, only friend, dog's friend's master, etc. It is a great opportunity to give to the charity of ones choice, but giving away quality work in a commercial setting allows the commercial entity to take advantage of the giver of quality work and actually hurts the photographers who feed their family doing the same thing. Notice the term quality work. If one's work is quality they should be asking and getting a quality price. In this setting a quality photo should be worth the same regardless of who created it. If the commercial entity were to simply buy 10 stock photos for non-exclusive use, they could be laying out $2,500 or more. In this case their getting custom work and their intent is to make more money for themselves. So, I wouldn't hesitate to ask a quality price for quality work. I would be thinking $300 per usable photo. I may not get much work, but I would be enjoying every minute of it when I do. :) Make sure they know that you want to work with them and whatever price you offer to them, simply add the question, "Does this fit your budget?" [/QUOTE]

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