Price of event photos ?

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I'm a bit baffled by the price of event photos. We recently attended an event and bought two beautiful photos (prints) . I then contacted the photographer as I wanted a digital image to make into a mug for a Xmas prezzie. I was somewhat surprised when he told me the digital image was £30 ! Makes it a jolly expensive mug so I've not taken it any further. However, ive just seen other pics from a different event with a different photographer (I wasn't there) and they are selling their digital images for £4 each ???
In the past a very well known photographer very kindly let me have a digital image for free when I bought some prints. So I'm totally baffled by this first photographer' £30 charge for 1 photo ? (I should add it wasn't an afilliated event - is was a little village charity show that my husband showed our horse in) Does £30 sound right ?
 
I think it depends on rights. Normally £30 electronic prints gives you a high quality digital image, suitable for printing and ‘owned’ by you. This may not be the correct term but I think it allows you to redistribute/use it as you like. To avoid the mug looking grainy this is probably what you should opt for, or contact the photographer and ask if they print directly onto mugs... that may be a cheaper way to get a higher quality image.

The £4 electronic prints are social media quality, suitable for sharing online but not high enough quality to print and you are not meant to print them. I have purchased them before and have been happy with the quality for social media. I can always send over an example if you’d like?
 
saddleoversofa said:
I think it depends on rights. Normally £30 electronic prints gives you a high quality digital image, suitable for printing and ‘owned’ by you. This may not be the correct term but I think it allows you to redistribute/use it as you like. To avoid the mug looking grainy this is probably what you should opt for, or contact the photographer and ask if they print directly onto mugs... that may be a cheaper way to get a higher quality image.

The £4 electronic prints are social media quality, suitable for sharing online but not high enough quality to print and you are not meant to print them. I have purchased them before and have been happy with the quality for social media. I can always send over an example if you’d like?
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So I wonder if it's worth me contacting the £30 photographer to ask if he'll let me have a lower quality one. I didn't want anything fancy - just a token stocking filler that would prob end up being dropped anyway. Hmm, I might drop him a line.
 
Muddywellies said:
So I wonder if it's worth me contacting the £30 photographer to ask if he'll let me have a lower quality one. I didn't want anything fancy - just a token stocking filler that would prob end up being dropped anyway. Hmm, I might drop him a line.
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Worth a try? Tell him you want it for a mug so it doesn’t need to be top quality? I think they imagine you are gonna use the image to make a wall sized murial or something haha!
 
you get a high res digital photo that you can reuse for multiple prints/whatever-the photographer then misses out on any profit from those prints hence the price.

the photographer that stood there for hours, trying to get every horse and rider at the right moment so they looked half decent, with equipment expensive enough to cope with whatever light conditions thrown at them, travelling to the event, some events charge, time spent sorting and editing afterwards and answering emails, loading images up, insurance, tax, holiday/sick pay if doing it full time, cost of a website and so on. When I did it I did used to give away a low res image had the customer bought some prints, or charged £4 for a low res one about 10 years ago.
 
Is it possible, that as it was a charity event, that the photographer is donating some (or all) of this £30.00 to that charity? My Son in law is a professional photographer and he came and took photos for me of an event I was running as a memorial to a club member. He donated the money for the prints back to the charity we chose.
Last year I bought three digital images from a HT I rode at. I think they were about £10.00 for the three and good quality. I have hardly ever bought photos before but I figured this would be the last HT I ever rode round (at 70) so wanted some thing to remember!
 
MotherOfChickens said:
you get a high res digital photo that you can reuse for multiple prints/whatever-the photographer then misses out on any profit from those prints hence the price.

the photographer that stood there for hours, trying to get every horse and rider at the right moment so they looked half decent, with equipment expensive enough to cope with whatever light conditions thrown at them, travelling to the event, some events charge, time spent sorting and editing afterwards and answering emails, loading images up, insurance, tax, holiday/sick pay if doing it full time, cost of a website and so on. When I did it I did used to give away a low res image had the customer bought some prints, or charged £4 for a low res one about 10 years ago.
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Yes I know an awful lot goes into it (and a lot of work behind the scenes). I bought two prints for a total of £33 and am perfectly happy with that. Just had perhaps hoped for a slightly reduced price for a digital image, when already purchasing prints.
 
As comparison I just got a whole disc of digital images of me for £25. Probably around 12 images both in low digital quality for the likes of Facebook and then high quality ones for printing for photos.
 
I find that it is not so much the price, although that varies greatly from OK to exorbitant, but the print size. I have photo albums whoch are 7 x 5. and 6 x 4. Most photographers here sell 9 x 6. They are not suitable to be cut down. I have asked but most won’t do a size I want.

If I bought that size I could have wallpapered the house by now!
 
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