How Many Photos Do I Get for My Event?

How many photos do you need?

There are there better questions than just quantity

Much better questions are;

  • How well will my event be covered?
  • Can the photographer shoot to a brief?
  • Will you follow the event program?
  • What’s your experience at these types of events?
  • How many events do you photograph in a year?
  • How long until I receive my photos?
  • Will a human process the photos or AI?
  • If it is AI will my guests have their biometrics scanned?

All much better questions to ascertain whether you’ll get great service.

Typically the photographers that have hard and low limits on photo quantity are on the third party aggregators websites. It is a common tactic used overseas to try to keep the fee ‘looking’ low then try to upsell more photos. And that can cost a lot more.

Very rare in Australia for full time professional photographers that are charging market rates to have any low or high photo quantity limits. We’re much more focused on client satisfaction and photo quality.

Low quality filler photos to reach a set target number of photos are quite disrespectful to the craft of professional event photography.

I understand what you’re saying about photo quantity as a single metric, but can you give me a guide?

Here’s a Chart as a Guide for Photo Quantity for Events

Event Type Hours Simple Event Intermediate Event Complex Event
Small simple meeting (1-2 hours) 1 60 80 120
Meeting with some activations (3-4 hours) 3 120 180 225
Conference (4-8 hours) 6 200 300 400
Gala awards + Networking or Media Wall (8+ hours) 8 300 350 450
Tradeshow multiple days (10+ hours) 10 400 500 600
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What Does AI Copilot Say about Photo Quantity?

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There are so many variable between a Birthday Party event and Business Conventions, quantities listed below may be meaningless. Here’s another way of expressing it.

Event Duration (Hours) Simple Event (Photos Per Event) Some Activations (Photos Per Event) Full Programmed Event (Photos Per Event)
1 50 80
2 80 120 150
3 100 150 220
4 120 150 250
5 150 250 300
6 150 250 375
7 210 350 400
8 210 350 450
9 450 450
10 450 550

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