Selling a Photo

[Tom Knudsen]

Dear all..

I have been approached today by an company that want to puchase one of my photos.
Not really sure what to put into an pricelist as requested by the company.

The picture is an awarded photo by contest and designed and edited by me (not a regular photo)

In regards to copyright laws and etc. How much sould I demand for my photo?

Excuse any bad spelling

Kind regards
Tom Knudsen
Norway

[Chris Humphreys]

Can you tell us what sort of size the company are, what they want the image for and for how long. Copyright will always remain with you, but you can license the image to them for a single use, multiple use, multiple media.....any variety of things. The amount they will be willing to pay depends on all of this plus how big a company they are.

The good folk at DP will hopefully be able to give you some tips from the press side of things.

Chris

[Tom Knudsen]

Dear sir, thank you for your feedback

They havn´t said anything for sure about the use yet, but they stated or indicated it would be used for general purpose only.
I will of course try to specify this later on, but as far as I know they want to use it for advertisement at their firm.

The firm is a under genre " museum" an Atlantic Sea park that exibits fish http://atlanterhavsparken.no/english.php

The picture in question is http://www.dphotographer.co.uk/users/76 ... _under.jpg

Here is the clue:

1. The picture is edited by me with 52 layers of adjustments and have been featured in several magazines as "best monthly picture" and 1st price in an photo contest one time.

2. The picture was taken at (the company that want to purchase it) it´s location.

Hope I made my self clear.

Thanks in advanced

Regards
Tom

[Rosie]

It's a really tricky one as I don't know what kind of budget the museum has for images and whether
there are any other images in the running to be used.

If they are only using this image once (on a cover of their brochure for example) then I would charge less than
if they will be using it on lots of their litereature and banners and posters over an extended period of time.

I would go in with a price a little higher than you expect and be prepared to negotiate.

[cacchioli]

Hi Tom,

I'm interested to find out if a deal was struck with the museum. How did it go? Did you license the image?

Kind regards,
Craig Cacchioli