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Comment on Stock Photo Agencies by Lene

Lene — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 12:35:52 +0000

Miami stock photo and video footage at
http://www.305stockphoto.com

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Suzanne and Amanda

Suzanne and Amanda — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:00:12 +0000

@Octavio Salles, Octavio- I use Getty as a base so for fees only – and add the production expenses required to do a job. I estimated a job the other day for a client where Getty would have required $30,000.00 for International and non-exclusive so my client could go under that by $20-25,000.00 exclusive but show the Getty price as to why they are a better deal. I use stock pricing a lot to negotiate with clients and it seems to help. And since you are in Brazil it a great place to start. And it is a great way to show the client they are getting a “catered” images verses one that can be used by so many others. In addition, stock images are generic and personalized images have branding of the client’s product.

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Suzanne and Amanda

Suzanne and Amanda — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:54:27 +0000

@Shea Naer, thank you! Yes, Carolyn and WM have really offered some fabulous advise and the way she has taken the time to type everything out is so appreciated!!

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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 01:38:39 +0000

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Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by alex

alex — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:24:10 +0000

@JMG,
Yeah, those guys might be photographing models nude but trust me that they are not getting them to give them hand jobs like Terry is. This is a whole other issue, it’s not about shooting nudes.

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by danno watts

danno watts — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:10:41 +0000

@Grey,
to play devil’s advocate :
there hasn’t been any report yet on ‘underage girls’ having to perform sex acts.
the claim that is being spread around the internet is from a model who was 19 in the states. and what’s underage to one country may not be underage to another…

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Patrick Cavan Brown

Patrick Cavan Brown — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:42:42 +0000

Holy Mackerel, Rob, I hope the gods are treating you well! You consistently post information that we need. THANK YOU!!!

-patrick

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Chad Thompson

Chad Thompson — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:53:46 +0000

Nice to see I’m not the only one to let typo’s slip by in a proposal.

Comment on Driveby culture and the endless search for wow by Gordon Moat

Gordon Moat — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:02:54 +0000

“Don’t give up! I believe in you all.
A person’s a person, no matter how small!
And you very small persons will not have to die
If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!”

- from Horton Hears a Who! by Dr. Seuss

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Octavio Salles

Octavio Salles — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:27:18 +0000

@Bob,
fotoQuote must be great, unfortunately we don’t have a similar product here in Brazil so it’s hard to know if your rates are good or not. So I often use stock agency rates as a base for my licensing rates on assignments. Of course production costs will add to that rate and also of course an assignment produced photo is unique to that client, and that should force rates up too.

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Bob

Bob — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:07:38 +0000

@Octavio Salles,

There is a lot more to it than that. If they could use stock without production expenses, they probably would. It’s hard to stay in business if pricing images like a commodity (rice, oil, copper).

This may be helpful:
http://www.cradocfotosoftware.com/fotoQuote-Pro/

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Bob

Bob — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:41:45 +0000

@john mcd.,

Seems to be some dissonance between your first post and the post above…

“Mutual consent seems to be the operating principle here, so while he might be a creep he’s not a criminal”.

“…constitutes harassment because, they say, the power differential creates a dynamic in which “mutual consent” is impossible.”

Sexual harassment is a crime. A person consenting to be involved in a crime does not make it any less of a crime. That doesn’t matter if they think it does, or not.

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Octavio Salles

Octavio Salles — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:36:26 +0000

Excellent series, keep em coming!

I have a question: If you get an online quote for a given use at Getty or similar stock sites, do you use that same quote for an assignment shoot licensing or do you use a smaller quote? And if so, how much smaller on average?

I ask because with a stock photo there’s the percentage that stays with the stock agency and there’s the production costs paid by the photographer to produce that stock photo (usually). So the licensing value of stock photography IMO is bigger than a photo produced on assignment.

Am I right on this?

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Brad Trent

Brad Trent — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:43:09 +0000

@Donnar Party, Gee…thanks Junior! I really appreciate you lookin’ out for me!

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Grey

Grey — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:43:20 +0000

Someone who manipulates underage girls into performing sex acts is a predatory pedophile. It’s not complicated.

He should be in jail.

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by The LensPro

The LensPro — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 10:21:40 +0000

Very Interesting Articles…..Keep posting such typesof Articles…

Comment on Internships and Labor Law by Giselle

Giselle — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 09:09:33 +0000

Its amusing to me that this has come out now.
I just quit an internship with a BIG name photographer who I thought I’d learn from and instead was used for free labor.
As Greg said, who is going to report someone with a big name. If you are an intern you are obviously trying to get your foot in the door in some way.
After the last experience, I’ve realized my free time would be better spent shooting for myself than cleaning someone who has the money to PAY someone’s studio.
Is this a hopeless cause or is there something that can be done besides NOT taking the internship?

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by danno watts

danno watts — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 08:08:12 +0000

@dude,
1) are you involved in the fashion world?

2) the story isn’t that surprising to me as there are people at all levels who hold a camera hoping that gives them admission to the ‘fuck-a-model’ attraction.

3) i don’t think it’s good to pressure someone to jerk you off at a (non-porn) shoot. to say that the above people you quoted are cool with sexual assault might be a bit misleading, don’t ya think?

ps: why comment anonymously? you are putting yourself in the ‘noble’ position, wouldn’t you want to let all your potential clients and friends know that you are such a good guy/gal? be a pal and give in to my prodding. reveal yourself gladiator.

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Donnar Party

Donnar Party — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:04:42 +0000

@Sophia Wallace,

When I was in school I took a lot of critical theory classes. What I learned is that critical theory is like a stereotype: its mostly false but contains some bitter truths. So while I reject the thought that fashion is a male dominated power structuire like GE, I do think the larger paradigm of the culture is reflected in the output, especially fashion taht is closer to pure commerce on the art-commerce continiuum.

I never bought Berger’s thought in Ways of Seeing, sinmply because I think that fertile young women are at the core of humanity, for men and women. Reproduction is as core a function as eating, and a beautiful, available fertile and healthy young woman probably touches something in our (both men and women) limbic system. I don’t think its all conditioning that makes a straight female admire the beauty of a beautiful woman. I think that denying this causes cognitive dissonance. If we could deny our core humanity, Modernism wouldn’t have been such a failure.

Good talking to you Sophie. I enoy your thoughts.

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Donnar Party

Donnar Party — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:36:11 +0000

@Brad Trent, I’m not defending him. I’m explaining how the big city functions. If its too horrible for you, don’t work here.

Comment on Publishers Need To Put A Premium On Content by Todd Fitchette

Todd Fitchette — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:33:36 +0000

You just hit the head of the proverbial nail as to why the American newspaper industry is currently publishing its obituary on its balance sheets with red ink.
I worked in newspapers and print media for 13 years before the rug was yanked from under me. I watched as quality became devalued by publishers who were focused like a laser on attracting advertising clients without really considering that without readers, the advertisers would go somewhere else. So the game became massaging circulation numbers rather than focusing on building value in the product. The joke that followed likened the publisher to the fool who would trip over pennies while thousand-dollar bills blew out the window.
Newspaper publishers have sought the lowest common denominator for too long and it shows. As readership falls, so goes the advertising.

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Calculus

Calculus — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 01:48:23 +0000

@ronno,

There are lots of hacks that are “successful” and get farther along than most would ever expect, they just don’t stay around too long before they fall in on themselves. Terry’s world is built on a very week foundation, and he is “rocking the house” and taking huge risks pretty hard right now.. sooner or later the house is going to crumble.

Comment on Stop Accepting $200 Assignments! by Taking the $200 job | A Photographer

Taking the $200 job | A Photographer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:30:32 +0000

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Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Shea Naer

Shea Naer — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:41:24 +0000

Just wanted to echo my thanks for this really informative post. Thank you Sir Haggart, Carolyn, Suzanne, Amanda, and all the WM people!

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Bob

Bob — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:54:26 +0000

@JMG,

I’d like to add,

““For the record, Peck hardly seems bitter about it:”
This is the (Jezebel) writers take on this incident. She is quoting this article:

http://thegloss.com/fashion/terry-richardson-is-really-creepy-one-models-story/

The article is days old. If Peck is over it, why the article?

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Bob

Bob — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:31:04 +0000

@JMG,

I read it. How does that condone his behavior?

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by A Photo Editor

A Photo Editor — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:26:08 +0000

@CH,
Thanks Chris. Appreciate it. It’s very surreal how this all came about.

Comment on Pricing & Negotiating For Photographers – Tag-teaming with TV crews on ad shoots by Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:16:37 +0000

Thanks for the insight. It’s a side of the curtain I never get to see.

Is it a common practice to lump the creative fee and usage?

Since this is a couple years old would the market dictate the same invoice?

thanks,

Chuck

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by JMG

JMG — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:29:15 +0000

@Bob, did even read the Jezebel article? Prob not. Here: “For the record, Peck hardly seems bitter about it: “If you’re reading this, Terry, and want to prove you really are a nice guy after all, I’m over it now and wouldn’t mind collecting that print.”

Comment on Terry Richardson Getting Lit Up By The Blogs For His Lewd Behavior by Bob

Bob — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:25:50 +0000

@JMG,

Is there enough information to make an assumption on the print?

Maybe she wants to do a ritual burning of the print.
Maybe she wants to sell it while TR is still favorable.
Maybe she want’s it as evidence in a suit.

Only she knows, but receiving a print is not condoning his behavior.