Hello, I was recently hired to do a 2-hour event shoot of a company’s parade float. They only want 12 photos in the end, but obviously I’ll have to edit much more than that so they can pick out which 12 they want. I’m also a sophomore in college and wouldn’t say I have more than the average amount of experience. I really just don’t know what to charge for shooting or editing. I don’t want to overcharge, but I know if i lowball then I won’t be taken seriously.
You don’t edit photos they’re not gonna want. Send them a gallery of the unedited photos (with a watermark over them) and they can pick out their favourite 12 photos. Then you only edit those ones.
I personally charge for my time + number of edited images.
So that would be something like $100/hour + $25/photo.