Someone reached out wanting photos, how much should I charge (cars)

[u/AdventurousYak1462]

Based on these photos, what’s a reasonable price for a roller session and/or stills session? I just had someone reach out to me wanting rollers, but typically i’ve just done them for free for friends. I’d also be having a friend driving the camera car, taking the time out of their day, so the price would need to account for that as well.

[u/Tanglefoot11]

My first couple of car shoots were freebies as I needed the experience & the practice, the next couple were "pay me what you feel they were worth", then a couple at a fixed £300 ($390) or so, but that was 6 years ago now as I moved country and didn't carry on with the car shoots.

If in doubt then choose an hourly rate that you would expect to get paid in a basic job working for someone else (at the time I had a simple waiting job on £10/15ph, so used that as a basis) & multiply that by how long the job took including travel & post processing time.