I Was Hacked… Glad I Backed Up With Useful Plugin

Written by . Posted on September 26, 2011. Filed under Ramblings & Observations, Web Marketing. Tagged , , , . 4 Comments.
Hacked!
At 4:51am Sunday the server on which this blog is hosted was suffered a “defacement attack by a hacker, at least that’s what my hosting company called it. I’d never heard of such a thing, but they call it that when only the homepage of a site is altered and no other destructive scripts or [...]

Don’t Let Your “Joes” Hold You Back

Written by . Posted on September 22, 2011. Filed under Negotiating, Sales. Tagged , , , , , , . 5 Comments.
Joe the Mechanic
Most emerging photographers consider themselves generalists if for no other reason than that they want to work and any paying job coming their way sounds like a good one. But if this is where you’re at in your career, you’ll need to at some point do two things: first, become more of a specialist and [...]

Book Excerpt: “The Art and Business of Photography”

Written by . Posted on August 8, 2011. Filed under Book Reviews. Tagged , , , , . 6 Comments.
carrBook
Susan Carr is the Education Director of ASMP, the American Society of Media Photographers. Her latest book, The Art and Business of Photography, has received critical praise from both photographers and scholars for its candid look at the changing photography industry. It’s quickly become required reading in many university photography curriculums and I consider it [...]

Discount Additional Image Uses Intelligently

Written by . Posted on June 17, 2011. Filed under Negotiating, Sales. Tagged , , , . 2 Comments.
Discount
A question was asked on one of the photographer forums I read regularly: “I recently convinced a magazine client to commission assignment photography as opposed to buying rights managed. Thus far, we have come to an understanding of fees for the assignment but they have come back asking for the rights to run the story [...]

Inexperience Shouldn’t Factor into Pricing

Written by . Posted on June 9, 2011. Filed under Guest Posts, Negotiating. Tagged , , , . 4 Comments.
Denver Photographer Don Cudney
It’s time for another guest post and we’re fortunate to have an excellent article by Denver Photographer Don Cudney. In it Don shares his thoughts about how experience effects pricing. Don is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). That’s him there on the left shooting HDSLR video on a chilly night. [...]

“Work Cheap, More Work in Future”

Written by . Posted on June 7, 2011. Filed under Negotiating. Tagged , , . 9 Comments.
lowDollar
A play in one act. Bob the Client: “If you can do this job cheap, we have a lot more work for you in the future.” Me: “That sounds great, I really appreciate loyalty. Here’s what I’ll do for you Bob. Because you’re promising me more work in exchange for a reduced price here, what [...]

It’s Not Personal, It’s Business

Written by . Posted on May 20, 2011. Filed under Guest Posts, Negotiating. Tagged , , . 3 Comments.
Jim Cavanaugh
It’s time for another guest post and we’re fortunate to have an excellent article by Buffalo Architectural Photographer Jim Cavanaugh. Today’s entry is excerpted from two posts Jim made as part of a conversation regarding standing up for one’s rights when negotiating with a client. Jim is currently the President of the American Society of [...]

Shame on TwitPic, Kudos to Mobypicture

Written by . Posted on May 11, 2011. Filed under Ramblings & Observations, Web Marketing. Tagged , . 9 Comments.
Mobypicture
The British Journal of Photography today tells us that the image sharing service TwitPic has announced and agreement with the celebrity photo agency WENN. TwitPac will have the right to sell (and profit from, without you, BTW) any images you upload to its photo sharing website. Because TwitPic is one of the largest photo sharing [...]