Thanks Suzanne! You guided me early in my career and I took your advice to heart.

When you believe in your self and your work, others will to!!!

I would also say I am positive but it is just as important that I see the things I do everyday helping to fulfill my goals of shooting the kind of work I want. The more I shoot the kind of work I want and the more passionate I am about the work the better it turns out. It is kind of a positive feedback loop.

I think this is something you are lucky to be born with, because if, like many photographers (and people in general) you tend to look on the less positive side, it is nearly impossible to keep this kind of UP focus on a day in day out, year in year out basis.

Rejection must not phase him, whereas for many, being turned down is the sound of doom. Jason must just bounce back and market more. Wow. How envious am I???

I’ve looked at Jason’s work, it is nice of him to have revealed himself, and the photographs are indeed nice, and professional, and it looks like he’s found a great bunch of clients.

If you could bottle Jason’s outlook, you could sell it. Photographers will pay for anything they think will help, from consultants to portfolio reviews to whatever — it seems all you need is persistence and a smile. Who knew?

Actually the term guerrilla in regard to photography used to refer to the concept of going into a location without permit/permission shooting quick and light, and getting out without getting caught. The term may have broadened.

This is a great site! I just was referred to this site by a fellow photographer. Thank you for sharing.

David Burke

Same idea for photography. Creative ideas, unconventional thinking and imagination are one of the reasons they hire you why not apply it to the production and budget as well. Shoot on the street, work with real locations, shoot people you find on the street, work fast, smaller crew. The smallest crew I work with like this is a producer, an assistant and myself. You get very real images and you keep production costs down while keeping fees up.

It does not work for every campaign but it maybe a solution.

Working this way does not lower the creative fees in fact it may raise them because you become more valuable the more you contribute.

Often I’m asked to bid on a job without budget knowledge, if sense the client getting squeamish about it and I might lose the job, I will always then ask what they had in mind. If I’m able to accommodate their numbers, I will. It’s certainly better than not getting the job at all…

I thought it would be good initially to just focus on the words and that’s why I took his name off the story.

In some ways, that’s the key. Keep at it every day like clockwork. Shooting, marketing, advertising, learning, growing. Persistence and time will bring success.

Guerrilla-style or gorilla-style?
Meaning what?

wonder if their experience is what others are also noticing. even a simple poll put up with a few options “doing awesome”, “sluggish” or “horrible”.

ps : any reason for the cone of silence on not revealing this person’s name?

rocksteady,
danno~