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Package Prices
Package Prices
Family- $275
Kids- $250
Senior- $250
Couples- $275
Maternity- $250
Wedding Packages
Wedding- $2500 12hr packages
$2050 10hr package
$1850 8hr package
*All wedding packages come with two photographers**
Engagement/Save the date- $425
Elopement Package Vary- inquire with me
Boudoir- $325
Wedding Video Packages
Wedding- 10hr package- $1050- with audio
10hr package- $850- without audio
Birth Packages
Birth- $1050
Birth photos and video- $1300
Fresh 48- $250
Newborn- $250
What are you getting for your money?
What are you getting for your money?
Additional information for client.
Break down of service costs and what you are getting for your time and money.
My Average Wedding Photography Coverage (with assistant): $2000
Day-Rate of Photography Assistant: -$200
Subtotal: $1800
Again, approximately 50% of all income goes to business costs, leaving about $900 gross.
Client email and phone communications: 1-3 hours per wedding.
Pre-wedding equipment prep: approximately 1-1.5 hours.
Average travel to and from wedding: 2-3 hours
Early arrival to venue for assessment and lighting prep: 1 hr.
Actual shooting time: Most weddings are 6-12 hours of coverage, so let’s make it 8 hours.
Image culling (sorting through approximately 3,000-6,000 files, pre-edit): 5-6 hours.
Image editing and gallery prep: 12-30 hours.
Client gallery fees for shooter pays- $50-$100
Total: 29-50 hours per wedding, which averages 39 hours per wedding.
Billable rate: $900 gross divided by 36.25 average hours per wedding = $23.07 per “billable” hour.
This is, of course, assuming a full-time workload, but wedding and portrait photography is highly seasonal, and variability year-to-year comes with the territory. While most full-time photographers gladly take on as much as they can handle, the amount of work that comes around changes not only depending on the time of year and the weather, but also the economy and how saturated the market is. If, as in Portland, there are lots of aspiring photographers flooding the market in a race-to-the-bottom, there is not only less work for the dedicated professionals, but also a lower value placed on the work itself and perceptions of what it ought to cost. So financial fluctuations season-to-season and year-to-year are financial realities that photographers have to be prepared for and take on as a risk of the industry.
I hope this clears a little bit up, and ideally, it takes some of the feeling of being snookered out of the process of looking at photography prices. Almost nobody, no matter how it seems, is getting rich off of this profession. Even when the sticker price is a little shocking at first, you can hopefully take heart in knowing that you are paying a modest living wage for professional services, and in doing so, your business allows a working-class small-business owner to put food on the table and keep a roof over their family’s head.