I've been shooting for awhile in my home studio, just a simple set up. I've been giving free pictures (a softcopy). So as days goes by, word mouth to mouth comes and some of their friends are interested. I would like to know how much is the usual price rate for potrait photographic studio session? I know that we ourself should know how much we want to charge but i just wanna know what's the market rate. Is there a guideline that anyone could lay me out, like.. for example. $80-100/session inclusive of 8R photos. How many pictures are there in total in a package? So and so. What are the things i should provide to the client? Well, i'm not planning to charge a professional price but at least i gotta cover back some money. In a long run, some one has to pay the replacement money for the strobe light right?
There is no standard as you can't "fix" a price.
It ranges from people offering portrait session as low as $38 per session and include some soft copy to people who charge more than $650 just for the time with nothing included.
I guess if you are just going to charge at your "cost" just add your cost up and see how many jobs you need to break even with the cost, then that is your cost.
I guess cost of camera+lens+strobe+electricity+accesories should cover your basic equipment cost.
Then if you like to include prints, what size are you intended to give and that is your cost.
Then if you want some more, how much would you put say 1hour of your time worth?
You add those up, it will give you the number.
Generally, costing is simple, basically, total cost/no of jobs.
Total charge will largely depends on your "cost" and your "profit" equation.
Calculating cost is merely gives you a figure for you to know. As yup progress along, you need to consider value vs price equation as well.
Look around on how much people charge for their session and see why? My full price list is on my website, copy it if you like...
Regards,
Hart