Pricing your work
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Hi all
Im an Arch designer. I use vray to present my SU models to clients.
I have a photobucket account where I store all my work.I just received a message on one of my pictures asking if it could be purchased
for advertising in some brochure. The picture in question was a just a self project.
So has no ties to any payed work.Ive never dealt with this kind of thing. I realize that every country has its own
market value. I would just like any info on what I should be looking at in terms of
copyright etc. Or any advice would help. -
This is not the first time these matters have been discussed here. In at least one discussion, someone pointed out several links to other sites with "essays" on the subject. Root around a bit a couple of months back, it seems. I think Roger weighed in as did several others.
Use search phrases like Charging for Services, How to value your work, and so forth.
A couple of elements in your decision which were previously discussed were, in no particular order or priority: Keep track of or estimate actual hours spent on the item- this is not the only determinant. How valuable intrinsically is it to you? Are you releasing the item on permanent license? Is it or can it be formally copyrighted? Are you willing to negotiate? If any of this seems to be getting complex, do you have access to legal advice? Are you willing to pay for that advice? Or would you like to start out at a flat rate for the item, and wait for others to buy up the rest of the collection at the same rates? -
@holmes1977 said:
Hi all
Im an Arch designer. I use vray to present my SU models to clients.
I have a photobucket account where I store all my work.I just received a message on one of my pictures asking if it could be purchased
for advertising in some brochure. The picture in question was a just a self project.
So has no ties to any payed work.Ive never dealt with this kind of thing. I realize that every country has its own
market value. I would just like any info on what I should be looking at in terms of
copyright etc. Or any advice would help.As some pieces take hours and others take weeks its hard to put a price on a model.
Its easier when clients have a standard price they offer for work such as £250 per image I think its harder when your trying to value your own work especially when it was a personal project and your attached to it. I usually charge per hour for making the model as well as per hour for rendering this helps keep the prices the same no matter what country your selling too. -
IMO there's a big difference between a commissioned project (which should be charged per estimated hour) and a "free" image. And also if they want to license it for a single project, or to buy the copyright.
And there's also a difference between an image used for a commercial project like a brochure, and one used in a book, magazine etc.
I've never charged anything for books, magazines etc, except for one 3D/trueSpace image I made 15 years ago which apparently is still floating around on the net (just found it on Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/photos/49503103054@N01/3607124/in/photostream/ )
It was very small and old, so I charged around US$100 for it for use in a year book/report about a year ago.
If it was for an ad or something more commercial I'd probably have charged more.
For a larger/newer image I'd probably charge around $300-500? (and keep the copyright of course)
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