Archive for the 'Assignment Photography' 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 [...]

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.

How to deal with clients who want your photography for the cheapest possible price

photo credit: PetroleumJelliffe I was sent a link to a video on YouTube this week by a friend who laughed and said “this always happens to me”. I don’t know who made this video but it shows the kind of problems many photographers face on a daily basis. Especially in this current recession.

Alamy announce a ‘Find a Photographer’ service

photo credit: Caveman 92223 Alamy have announced today that they’re going to set up a section of the website where buyers of photography can “Find a Photographer”. Hats off to Alamy for a great photographer friendly initiative.