At the Table With Darina Kopcok: Pricing the Invisible Labour in Food Photography

<p>Have you ever found yourself doing extra creative direction, endless revisions, or &#39;just one more thing&#39; for a client without ever pricing it in? If you&#39;ve absorbed unpaid labour because it felt like &#39;just part of being a photographer&#39;, this episode will change how you see that.</p><p>We sit down with Darina Kopcok, a professional food and beverage photographer based in Vancouver.</p><p>Darina walks us through why scope creep isn&#39;t a client problem, it&#39;s a systems problem, and shares the tiered service model she built to give invisible labour a name and a price.</p><p>We dig into the shift from auditioning for clients to assessing them, the five questions that tell you whether a client is worth taking on before you ever quote, and the language photographers use without realising it undermines their own authority.</p><p>Darina&#39;s also prepared a free downloadable tiered pricing template just for our listeners linked below. This is a masterclass in the business side of food photography, from someone who&#39;s lived it.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Resources Mentioned:</strong></p><ul><li>Darina&#39;s free downloadable tiered pricing template - <a href="https://learngastrostoria.systeme.io/tiered-pricing-template" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://learngastrostoria.systeme.io/tiered-pricing-template</a><strong>See more from Darina Kopcok:</strong></li></ul><ul><li>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/gastrostoria/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">https://www.instagram.com/gastrostoria/</a></li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Follow us on </strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/focusandflourishpodcast/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>Instagram</strong>⁠⁠<strong> </strong>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>📸</p><p><br></p><p><strong>If you&#39;d like to support our podcast, you can contribute by buying us a coffee </strong>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<a href="https://www.buymeacoffee.com/focusandflourish" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>through this link⁠⁠</strong>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠<strong>. </strong>⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠</a>Your support means a lot! ♥️</p>