Archive for the 'Photography Business' Category

5 reasons your business clients don’t pay you quickly or on time

photo credit: fdecomite This applies to all business not just photographers and photography businesses. To get paid on time takes cunning, guile and a really keen eye for detail. The aim of the game is not to let your client use any excuse to not pay you. You’d think that after delivering a stellar product [...]

Photographer’s Terms and Conditions and why you need some

photo credit: DanBrady Where would we be without the small print? I’ll tell you where. In a world where we could be taken advantage of or worse still ripped-off and we would have little or no come back. I’m always surprised at the number of photographer’s websites that don’t contain any reference to their terms [...]

5 stock and photography business do’s and dont’s for 2010

photo credit: Crystl And so the turkey is eaten, the beer is going flat, the Xmas jumper has been dutifully worn and thoughts turn to the New Year and the hopes and fears that may bring. Here’s PP’s handy guide to the 5 things you really do and don’t want to do if you want [...]

Fight for your right to licence your pixels for a proper fee

photo credit: Vinay Deep But it’s the web! It’s just a web image. It’s cheap. It’s not worth as much as print usage. It’s only 300 pixels wide. It’s small. It can’t be worth anything like a full page in the magazine. It’s just our electronic version. Nobody reads it online anyway.

5 reasons to always use Photo Meta Data

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography Back in the days of film photographers would use sticky labels to show a transparency or print belonged to them and copyright and contact info. Literally stuck on the slide mount or the reverse of the print. With the advent of digital there was no longer a physical object to [...]