The question every client asks and no trade body answers. For weddings, the published 40 to 60 delivered images per coverage hour. For every other genre, a range built from the jobs you already delivered, because that is the only honest source there is. No invented tables; sources below.
Weddings are the only genre with a sourced range, so for anything else the honest method is your own data. Enter up to five jobs you already delivered.
Simple arithmetic on the published 40 to 60 per hour norm, not a separate finding. Guest count, weather and the schedule move the number more than hours do.
Uses the lowest and highest per-hour rate across the jobs you entered. Five jobs make a steadier range than two.
No trade body sets a delivered image count. What exists is a norm: a full day wedding produces 2,000 to 4,000 RAW frames and a delivered gallery lands between 400 and 800 images, roughly 40 to 60 per coverage hour. Everything else on the tidy charts you find is invented, which is why the second mode here builds a range from your own jobs instead. The full reasoning is in how many wedding photos to deliver and photos delivered per hour, genre by genre.
A delivered image is not free once it is chosen. It is edited, exported, stored and backed up, and it sits in a gallery the client has to get through. The four below are why the midpoint usually beats the top of the range.
For a standard eight hour wedding, 320 to 480 images falls out of the quoted 40 to 60 per hour rate. Write your contract wording carefully; the delivery guide compares the common phrasings.
No, and charts that claim one do not cite anything. Compute your own per-hour rate from five delivered jobs; the genre post walks through it.
Usually the opposite. An average $3,000 wedding delivering 400 images earns $7.50 per image; delivering 800 earns under $4 each for roughly double the editing. See stop over-delivering.
Quote the range in the contract and plan on the midpoint. The top of the range adds editing hours to the same job for the same fee; the note under the result shows how many for your hours.
Up to five fit. Two is a guess with error bars; three or more before you quote the range to anyone. The middle job is the one to plan against, the extremes show how far a hard job can move it.
Because the count decides the editing. Culling sets how many frames reach that stage, and at one minute a frame the gap between 400 and 800 images is nearly seven hours. Pick the preset closest to how you edit.
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