Why photo credit lines aren’t worth the paper they’re written on

photo credit: laffy4k Since the advent of digital more and more people are making images. That’s a good thing. The downside is that the explosion of photo sharing sites like Flickr and PBase have created a ready made amateur market for business savvy publishers to exploit. Don’t get me wrong, they’re not doing anything illegal. [...]

Don’t base your photography prices on time!

photo credit: fdecomite Lots of people make the same mistakes everyone makes when they start out shooting commissioned photography……they charge on their time. “Oh yes I think that will take about an hour” they say. And they charge an hour. This is a natural reaction when a client asks “what’s your day rate?” or sometimes [...]