----- Original Message ----- From: Bruce Dayton Subject: Re[2]: Others with NO interest in digital?
> > The one thing that has been working for me is to charge for my working > time. It has been met with very good reception from my clients - I > charge them for my time at an hourly rate. They are very happy to pay > me for my expertise in producing the images that they desire > (portrait, wedding, etc). They also pay all expenses (film, > developing, proofs, non-photo expenses). What they get out of that is > the proofs. And then I charge them cost for any forms of the image - > prints or scans. They feel this is very fair. This was how I ran my wedding business for 20 years. I decided to do it this way when I realized that four out of ten marriages were ending in divorce anyway. Fourty percent of the negs I was keeping were worse than useless. I quoted my hourly rate based on a minimum hourly rate (which was far from minimal) plus I would sometimes add a PITA factor which was based on my initial assessment of the job. It worked really well, and I actually made more money than when I was storing negatives and pricing by the entire job. William Robb
