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How many photos should you deliver?

For weddings, the published range by coverage hours. For every other genre, an honest range built from jobs you already delivered.

The wedding rate is the commonly quoted 40 to 60 delivered images per coverage hour. No invented per-genre tables here; sources below.

The commonly quoted rate is 40 to 60 delivered images per coverage hour.
Adds an earnings-per-image line, a number worth knowing.
Deliver somewhere between 320 to 480
Midpoint, if you want one number400 images

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.

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.

Your personal range, per hour Add a job
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Uses the lowest and highest per-hour rate across the jobs you entered. Five jobs make a steadier range than two.

WHERE THE RANGE COMES FROM

One sourced number, honestly applied

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.

COMMON QUESTIONS

FAQ

How many photos should I deliver from a wedding?

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.

Is there a standard for other genres?

No, and charts that claim one do not cite anything.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.

Is more photos better?

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.

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