Is the price fair?

thanks for checking out my site , but i would like some advice also

This may help

http://www.upc.fr/DOCS/bareme_upc2009.pdf

peter:

i priced one of my pictures using fotoquote (via photoshelter) for:

region: europe
country: italy
category: editorial/publishing
sub-category: magazine
type: consumer
dimension: double page
circulation: up to 250,000

and the price was just over $1068 US per image. i wasnt sure whether you meant 200,000 or 200 for circulation, if the latter then the price drops to $643 US per image. keep in mind that this pricing profile is set to %100. many photographers charge less to encourage sales. also, because they are buying three images, they may be expecting to be charged a lesser amount because it’s a whole story they are buying, not a’ la carte images.

i am new to pricing as well so if i made an error i am sure someone on lightstalkers will jump in and correct me.

hope this helps.

-david

Dear David,
fotoquote, as many other association website or journalist unions, is wrong in this case.
first of all Peter is selling a story so, by logic, the mag should pay it in whole and not based upon double pages prices. no matter how many they publish, if you want the story you buy it all. otherwise we freelance would be running around selling singles pics (which already happens too much) and the deep work that one produces on story, giving a plus value to the work than wire agencies, would be totally unworth.
to be more clear: if I m covering a demo or any kind of news then I ll sell pics one by one. if I m producing a story, which implicates a number of hours of research, contacts, brain working, then the photographer should tend to sell the whole story, even more if the story is still unpublished
anyway, fotoquote is wrong: consider that L’Espresso, one of the most prestigious and sold news magazines in Italy, with a circulation of 1 million copies weekly, is buying double pages 400 to 600 euros. And then there are Italian agencies selling even less. But those will die (close business soon, so we dont really care about them.. ahhaha)

open to give any other kind of infos
have a very good day
ciao
Dario

Ciao Peter,
It is not a big deal but I would try to ask a little bit more, 900 euro…. Anyway I think the propose is reasonable (according with the context).
Best
Stefano

you can also search alamy for a similar image and then enter the info, like 200,000 copies etc. It will then give a price.

http://www.alamy.com/