Say what the job is, and read the fee off the page

A shooting day is up to eight working hours on one site, the travel to it, and the edit that follows. A half day is up to four hours and is £690.

Hours past that are agreed on the day, with you, before they are worked. Nothing appears on an invoice that was not said out loud on site.

Shooting and usage are two figures and they are quoted together, before the shoot. The fees, terms and territories are the ones printed on the licensing page, and a brief is accepted at those.

A second use of the same frame is a second licence. That is not a penalty: it is why the first one costs what it costs rather than being priced for every use you might one day have.

A date cancelled before the week it falls in costs nothing. Inside that week the day is charged, because it is a day that can no longer be sold to anyone else.

Weather is not a cancellation on an outdoor job. The date moves, once, at no charge. Light on this coast is the reason half the work here looks the way it does and it is not something either of us is arguing with.

Sites in Teesside and the north-east coast carry no travel charge. Beyond that, mileage is itemised at £0.45 a mile and appears on the quote rather than on the invoice.

Escorted access, permits, inductions and a working window shorter than a day change the number of days a job needs, not the rate a day is charged at. Say them in the brief and they are in the quote.

Every job is worked in the practice's own PPE, with its own public liability cover. A copy goes to your safety officer on request.

The photographs remain the property of Bellows. What a client buys is usage: a named frame, a named form, for a term, in a territory.

A credit is expected wherever the publication carries one. Where it does not, the licence is unaffected and nobody is going to ring you about it.