Two books I’ve recently purchased have been incredibly helpful on the business aspects of assignment photography.

Pricing Photography is a well written resource on pricing in the industry. It helped provide some leverage as I was negotiating last week with Metropolitan Gallery. The gallery just signed a contract with me for usage of two images from the Luminary series–they’ll be creating 40″x 60″ installments for permanent display in Tempe, Arizona.

I’ve also been gleaning some business skills from John Harrington’s Best Business Practices for Photographers. It’s especially helpful with structuring estimates/contracts and licensing images. I’ve used estimate forms and examples twice already this week–just signed with IFEC for event photography and UT’s College of Natural Science magazine, Focus On Science for a full page portrait.

Now I just need to find an accountant, any suggestions?