What is the salary of a Movie Stills Photographer?
This is one of the types of photographers im thinking about becoming. Id love to do this but id still want to get a pretty decent pay. I’d also like to know what type of photographer gets paid more than a Movie Stills Photographer?
They get paid a per day rate depending upon their experience in being able to negotiate with each of the production companies they work. Of course all expenses are paid. Sometimes there is a remote location premium paid, but again that is negotiable. The last time I shot as a stills photographer, I was paid $100 over scale per day, I think because I knew the director … and I got my name in the credits as well.
You can check with some of the production companies and see what scale is in this century … ;>)