PRICING

With me, $1,195 for a half day (up to 4 hours) and $1,980 for a full day (up to 8 hours), commercial license included. Industry-wide, corporate rates in Southern California typically run anywhere from $150 to $500 per hour depending on experience and deliverables.

Because you have a budget meeting to get through and 'contact for quote' does not help you in it. The numbers are the numbers; custom work gets a custom quote, fast.

Edited, color-graded images in a private online gallery, a commercial usage license, and 48-hour delivery. Same-day social selects are included in full-day and larger bookings.

Additional shooters for multi-track events, the headshot station, Live Delivery, rush same-day full galleries, and travel outside San Diego County. Each is quoted up front; nothing appears on an invoice you have not seen first.

As the event is shot, frames transmit wirelessly to an editor in near real time, get fully edited, then land in a shared gallery on a typical ~60-minute delay from when they were taken. Built for social teams posting during the program. Priced per event based on hours and volume; ask for it in your quote.

Multi-day conventions are quoted custom because they vary: number of shooters, headshot station hours, daily delivery requirements. As a rule of thumb, per-day rates come down as days go up.

Half the booking fee holds your date, with the balance due on delivery. Corporate net-30 invoicing is available for established clients.

Most price by the day or the half day rather than the hour, because setup, travel, and editing do not scale down neatly. Here it is $1,195 for a half day of up to 4 hours and $1,980 for a full day of up to 8 hours. Anyone quoting a low hourly number is usually billing editing, licensing, or delivery separately, so ask what the all-in figure is.

For corporate event work, $100 an hour is well under what a full-service booking costs to deliver. A published full day here is $1,980 for up to 8 hours, and that covers insurance, backup gear, editing, and a licensed gallery. At $100 you are usually buying camera time only, with editing, usage rights, or turnaround quoted after the fact.

Five hours sits past the half-day window, so it is priced as a full day: $1,980 for up to 8 hours. Spread across 5 hours that is about $396 an hour, and the remaining 3 hours are yours if the schedule runs long, which at events it usually does. Booking the half day and adding hours on site is almost always the worse deal.

There is no single agreed definition, and anyone stating one confidently is picking a favorite. People use 20/60/20 loosely for a couple of different things: a rough sense of how a shoot's frames sort into standouts, solid usable coverage, and discards, and separately as a business-mix idea about which slice of clients generates most of the work. Treat it as a rule of thumb rather than a rule. For budgeting an event, the numbers that actually bind are the hours booked, the delivered image count, and the turnaround window.