On this page we will try to give you some idea of the cost of photography in the various disciplines. The information on this page applies for continental Europe only.
General pricing
Production costs
Photography: € 95,00 per hour. A job will be quoted based on an estimate of the amount of time taken, including time for preparation and travel. If If a job takes 8 hours on location, traveltime will be charged at 50%.
Post-processing: € 85,00 per hour. All colour corrections and retouching will be done in house. For some jobs in relation to product photography an outsourced post-processing service will be used for reasons of speed and efficiency. The ratio photography hours - post production hours will vary per type of photography. details will be given in the quotation.
Travel expenses will be charched at cost and travel by car will be charged at € 0,40 per Kilometer.
The costs of models, styling and location will be invoiced directly by the agency or via STUDIOVHF with a handling fee.
Payment terms: 14 days from date of invoice or earlier when the images will be published before that date. Please refer to article 4.4 of the T&C’s. Bookings for product photography for small webshops will only be confirmed after pre-payment of the quoted amount.
Depending on the sort of assignment, we charge per day or half a day. So a day will cost approximately € 1100 and half a day € 550, including the average post processing time.
All pricing is ex VAT (BTW).
Publication costs
For some images a publication fee will be charged in addition to the production costs. This applies to some advertising photography and situations where images are re-used outside the initial agreed publication or by a third party. The fee wil be based on exposure, circulation or position on websites.
Legal Stuff
As with all our business affairs we deal in an open and transparent way and have many long standing relationships with both clients and suppliers. We respect and adhere to the Dutch and International copyright-laws and use the standard terms and conditions of the Dutch professional Photographers association, DuPho.
You can read all about it here: DuPho English info (PDF).
In our quotations we will be clear about all costs and usage of photos.