Hi there,
I am beginner freelance web designer though I have done more than 25 website projects in last 6 months. I have always struggled with the price of the website. I charge roughly £300 for wordpress driven websites with maximum five pages.
Some of my customers had pictures taken themselves with their own cameras (not good quality jpegs ) and few times by the professional photographers. Most of the times, I got the pictures from websites that offer the licenses for the pictures for free to use on commercial projects. I have used the free subscriptions on the paid websites to keep the clients happy and Now i am fully exhausted to keep doing the same thing over and over again. It is quite painful and sometimes can be illegal to mine the pictures for commercial projects.
Plus, I am rather in the business of website design not in the business to collect the pictures which in reality takes more time than developing websites.
The main problem is that my clients can not afford to buy pictures from the stock photography websites and I am not getting enough customers a month so I can't afford myself to keep the subscription running for whole month. If I buy the pictures seperately from the stock websites then I will have to increase the price; which my clients would not like to pay.
I think there will be some people who are experienced web designers who must have found a solution to this problem. I will really appreciate if somebody can suggest the solution to the problem that I am facing.
Thanks in advance