Being the utmost amateur photographer, I've shot some little league baseball games and some soccer games and posted the photos online and gave the parents the website to purchase prints (not making any profit). My sister is in the at home health care industry and her company was one of the sponsors of a prom for seniors. They had a photographer from the local TV station that was going to setup and do some "Prom Portraits", and I was asked to just mingle and get some candid shots and post them online like I had done with the ball game.
Turns out the guy they had lined up to do the portraits had a death in the family and was called out of town. The organizers called and told me their situation and explained that he had left his equipment for them to use and I was asked if I would help them set it up and then I could do what I had originally been asked to do. When I arrived, they had nothing, must have been some mis-communication but they had nothing but a laptop and a photo printer.
To make a long story short, I went home and got my lights and setup. Took all the portraits as well as some candids in between. We printed out 4x6 prints for the folks to take home and everyone was happy. The attendees as well as the staff that put on the event were all very please with the work. After the event was over I was on my way out and the guy had organized the event told me they wanted to purchase all the photos for their archive, and told me to give him a price and they would pay "whatever" my price was.
What to do? I would like to more events they do and it would be nice to make a little money doing it. I don't want to be dirt cheap but I don't think I can charge as much as someone that does it professionally. I spent about 3.5 hours at the event, and I'll spend another couple sorting the photos, post processing and uploading. After sorting I think I'll end up with around 100 photos. What's a fair price? Do I charge be the photo? By the hour?
Any thoughts or ideas to lead me down the right path would be very helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Steve