I do understand the temptation when budgets are tight to go with less experienced people (students for example), however I always think it’s a lost opportunity – its sets the bar for payment low and makes it harder for professionals to be paid fairly for their work. When done by someone who has professional experience putting together content for a specific purpose you’ll have a high quality images that you can use to advocate for your practise year on year, not just for that event- so it’s an investment, really.

 

My partner’s a videographer so I could really harp on about the fair payment of professional photographers/videographers all day (but I won’t don’t worry)!

 

Oh actually one more thing (I lied) – if you do only have a small budget that really won’t stretch, it’s often better to tell the photographer what your budget is first and if they’re keen they can work around it – putting together a quote can take time.

 

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Rosie

 

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Dear Kerrie and all

 

£110 for what you acknowledge will be  at least a day’s work is WAY too low. 

 

Recently I’ve paid a freelance computer expert £25 an hour to sort out IT problems, and an electrician £30 and hour to do some wiring in my house. A photographer has to have similar levels of training and skill to people like this, and has to provide al their own equipment - pro cameras and whatnot ain’t cheap.

 

So I’d say that a reasonable minimum to expect to pay for a day’s work - half a day shoot and half a day to edit/compile - from a competent professional photographer would be in the region of £250 (maybe plus VAT). For budgeting purposes in future I’d work with something like £300 - £350 plus VAT as this gives some room to make a choice based on quality or other factors not just price. If you want them to work at ‘antisocial’ times i.e. evenings or weekends then you should expect to pay more.

 

As a general point I think its high time that the museum business as a whole woke up to the fact that we/you routinely under-budget for bought-in professional services. This seems to go right back to the business of project planning and bidding for funding. I think this may be because museum professionals are not well paid, and have a poor understanding of what it costs either to run a business or to employ someone. 

 

And funding bodies don’t help, either because many of them don’t challenge costings for services that they must be able to see are unreasonably low.

 

Its also not a bad idea, when you’re looking to include employing a freelance professional in a project to ask before you write the project budget what someone with appropriate skills and expertise will want for doing a day’s work. Most people will be happy to tell you.

 

Hope this helps

 

All the best

 

 

Richard.

 

 

 

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We would like to know what price museums would expect to pay for a professional photo shoot, documenting activity in the museum for a half day/day if possible.  We need to document our work, but are concerned that the fee we can offer is low at £110 for a half day shoot and editing, to result in a folder of professionally edited photos.  Realistically the work will take a whole day with the shoot and the edit.  Feedback welcomed.

 

Any help much appreciated.

 

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