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.