malksaint

Wow, that's drastic. I had no idea it should be that much. I was thinking that considering my lack of working experience and the fact that they provide LED models most of the time, so I only need to do PS work/render/scene surfaces/compositing would downplay the rate so $75 per image would sound sane. It looks like I messed it up. It's kinda awkward as I can't just tell them "oh you know, I just decided to charge you, let's say, twice more". Looks like I'll have to stick to what I charged for a while for the sake of experience I guess.

Hello guys, I need your advice. I recently found a freelance work which is basically compositing LED light products onto stock images. I don't have any prior professional experience, only personal projects and school projects, so I was asked how much do I want per one image. I took few test images to work out the pipeline. The process of work is something like that: 1) removing existing lights from photos 2) recreating a scene in 3Ds Max partially (mostly simple surfaces to catch light and shadows), aligning perspective 3) using provided LED models to insert them into scenes and render them out in passes using Vray 4) after approval, composite all passes in PS fixing edges and such So this whole thing takes me around 8-10 hours per image, but I think with time I can shorten it to 6-8 hours of work per image. And when asked how much, I thought it should be something like $15/hr of my work, so I started with 75 per image. And on that we agreed. Considering my state taxation, it would be something around 67 per image for at least 6 hours of work. What do you think, is this fair enough for the work I do and the price I agreed for? Considering that I need experience and my resume currently has none of 3D work experience? Or I should consider changing rates later? Thanks in advance.