Most photographers make you email them for a price. I would rather you could work it out before you pick up the phone, so here is the whole thing, including the parts that make a quote go up.
The short answer
My first hour is £180. Each hour after that is £100. A half day of four hours is £480 and a full day of eight hours is £880. Headshots add £10 per employee photographed. Editing, delivery and travel across East Anglia are inside those figures, not on top of them.
What “included” actually means
The hourly rate is not just the time I am pointing a camera at something. It covers arriving early and setting up, the shooting itself, then the part nobody sees: culling several hundred frames down to the ones worth delivering, and editing each of those individually rather than dragging one preset across the lot.
It also covers delivery to a private online gallery with free high-resolution downloads, and full commercial usage rights with no expiry. That last part matters more than people expect. Some photographers licence images per use, which means the picture you paid for in March costs you again when it appears in the annual report in November. Mine do not.
The three things that move the number
Headcount. Headshots are the one place where volume changes the price, at £10 a person. That covers the extra editing and retouching each portrait needs. Forty people is forty portraits, and forty portraits is real work after the day ends.
Hours, not locations. Moving between two buildings on the same site costs nothing extra. Moving between Cambridge and Peterborough costs you the hour it takes. If you have several sites, tell me at the start and we will plan the order rather than discovering the problem at three in the afternoon.
Turnaround. Standard delivery is a few days for the full edited gallery. If your communications team needs a first selection the same night, say so when you book and I will edit during the event, which changes how I work the day.
Working examples
A team of twelve headshots is two hours at £280, plus £120 for the twelve people, so £400 altogether. Everybody photographed against the same background under the same lights.
A one-day conference is a full day at £880: keynotes, breakouts, the exhibition floor, the group shots and the dinner, delivered as one gallery.
A single executive portrait is the first hour at £180, which in practice usually covers three or four setups in different parts of the building rather than one.
What I do not charge for
Travel anywhere in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. A pre-shoot conversation about what you need, which is nearly always worth having. Reshooting a portrait somebody genuinely hates, which happens perhaps twice a year and is not worth arguing about.
Getting a figure for your own job
Send me the date, the location and roughly what you need. I will come back with availability and a price, usually the same day, and it will match the numbers on this page.