Help needed - Commercial automotive quote

[Rogue86]

Hi everyone, I'm in need of a bit of help. I'm in need of a price/time quote for a freelance photographer who has commercial automotive experience, preferably for an OEM, as well as studio experience. I'm not looking for a £/hr quote, but rather a step-by-step breakdown of how long you'd need to do the tasks properly, as well as a budget quote for your time plus equipment hire etc, whether you'd need assistants (plus a best guess at their rate if so).

I must stress that there isn't a paid job in this for you. If you can help me, please email me ([e-mail]). You could well save my job!

[Rogue86]

I'll give all that to anyone kind enough to get in touch via email, I don't really want it all in the public domain.

[Rogue86]

A work dispute essentially that could end up costing me my job and probably see me hanging up the camera for good.

[Rogue86]

Not quite as straightforward as that unfortunately, more of an independent opinion on the costings and timeframes commercial work usually allows to prove a current working practice is ineffective. I would love a Bacardi at this stage if you've got one going spare!

[Rogue86]

As I say, I don't really want to air any dirty laundry in public, I'm just after some impartial costings and timings to see which one of us is being unrealistic. I wouldn't be hanging up the camera out of spite, more because I don't have my own kit (both previous jobs kit was provided), so if this job fails the chances of me buying suitable kit will likely be beyond reach. Not that explaining any of that has helped me in any way particularly.

[Rogue86]

Thanks for the responses. I have very little experience of freelance work as I've always been staffed, so in terms of arguing my worth I'm struggling to get my hands on any concrete figures to say "this is what it would cost to freelance out these particular jobs as an example and here is how long they would expect it to take". This is also my first full-time automotive and commercial job (previous was PR based). The work we do here is featured alongside commercial work in advertisements for car mags (Top Gear, Evo) and lifestyle mags (Ritz etc), as well as being used in brochures, news articles.

What I'd like to do, if anyone is willing, is to send them an example of a typical weeks work and get their professional opinion on how long they would expect to be given to complete the lot, as well as the pay they would like to receive for doing it. I'll ignore licensing for now as my contract effectively waivers ownership of any copyright on my behalf (drawback of being staffed I suppose). There's no trick question, I'm not looking for you to price competitively or to exaggerate anything, just an honest opinion. I can even send you an example of the work I did for some of them to give you an idea of the level of which they're expecting, as well as the basic kit you would have access to.

[Rogue86]

As above, the work competes with OEM commercial, not editorial mags (though that's inevitably where the work is published).