New Fashion Magazine Cover
April 4th, 2009
fashion magazine cover photo
I had a new fashion cover come out for a Philadelphia magazine called Mainline magazine. The editor in chief emailed me about a photo she really loved that she saw on my site and wanted to use it for the cover of their Spring issue. So we settled on a price and I faxed them a contract of terms and conditions, the editor signed and faxed it back to me. This part is very important. Some photographers, especially if it is their first sale of a photo get all excited and forget about the BUSINESS aspect of this thing we call photography and will just send over the high res file and wait for their check. I wish life worked that way. You MUST send them an invoice with YOUR terms and conditions. For example, how long the photo can be used for, how many times can it be published, it cannot be sold to any third party. These are issues I go over when you take my private workshop.
In addition to the technical side of photography you must know the business side. Do you know how much to charge for a photo that will be used for a cover ? I will tell you this and much more when you attend my private photography workshop.
Tags: business of photography, cover photo, fashion, los angeles fashion photographer, magazine photography, photography workshops
April 5th, 2009 at 5:47 am
great post! You have a lot of great information that you are sharing, thanks! In this situation would the pricing be different, since you had already taken the image. Rather than having a photo shoot to produce the image that they wanted? And lets say the usage would be the same for the image also.
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Jason Christopher Reply:
April 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
Hi Rashod,
Thank you for the compliments ! If the magazine hired me to shoot this the cost would be MUCH more. Standard rate for a photographer is $2,000 to shoot a cover. Then they have to pay a make up artist, wardrobe stylist, hair stylist etc. The usage is always negotiable. One thing you must remember to put in your invoice is that the image may not be sold to a third party.
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April 9th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Hi,
That is a great post ,
I think you get lot for that this photograph looks beautiful.
thanks for the information .
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April 14th, 2009 at 3:00 am
Hi, i was browsing through your photo’s for my GCSE textiles project and i have fallen in love with your pictures. Each one is so elegant and incredibly beautiful. This photo (above) was my favorite. You have an amazing talent and i am highly jealous.
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April 16th, 2009 at 10:16 am
Hi Bee,
Thank you very much !
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November 9th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Beautiful image.
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Thank you very much alex !
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November 11th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
Hi! I was curious if you could email me a copy of what your terms in conditions would be. I’m not sure exactly how to go about licensing my photographs. I’m just getting into commercial shooting in the next couple months, mainly shooting food for menus, signs, and hopefully cookbooks.
I guess my question is, what does a typical license form look like and say. I have all sort of model releases but I don’t have knowledge of how to license!
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Jason Christopher Reply:
November 11th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Hi Ben,
This is a good question. Terms and conditions are all subjective in regards to photographers. You can make your terms and conditions say whatever you want. A really good book to get is called Business And Legal Forms for Photographers by Tad Crawford. As far as licensing for photographers is considered I recommend getting software called fotoquote. You will find a wealth of information about the software. And of course you can always attend my photography workshop. Thank you for your question Ben !
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