Your backside is no longer your own. You must do with it what your new pimp tells you to do…that is…if you wish to work the turf that the National Football League owns. You wanna turn a trick on the sidelines of a game? You gotta give your due to your overlord.Even The Wall Street … Read more
This is what you wantedAs per our conversationRE:For you JohnFwd:HelloMy detailsThanks!One more questionThe above are REAL subject lines that I recieved from real clients, friends, and other folks e-mailing me – not spammers. Those e-mails have variations of medication names, offers for expensive watches, and so forth. Instead, the above e-mails contained: This is what … Read more
“Nah, the dot-com-ers won’t get any play in the paper…” was what I heard more than one Washington Post photographer and reporter say. “We’re seperate companies anyway, we share content with them, but they’re not filling our pages with art.”Sorry, think again.The article in question is Geek Pride Blooms Into a Real-World Subculture, from Sunday’s … Read more
There was a lot to take in at the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit this past week. It was the second annual event, and my first time in attendance.I give the Summit high marks for their program. A great deal of ground was covered over those two days — it certainly could have been extended to … Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote nOnRequest – This is Not Your Father’s “Agency”. Today, at the Microsoft Summit, I heard something remarkable, and it wasn’t said once, it was said twice. David Norris, the head of OnRequest, after building a business around the CustomStock Model, whereby “up to five photographers” would produce an assignment, … Read more
If you’re anywhere near Redmond, Washington (that’s the state, not DC), next week, I have been asked by the event organizers of the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, and will be speaking on, what else? Business Practices for Photographers. To register, click here. To see the Summit’s agenda, click here.On the business of photography side:The Business … Read more
There are many ways to earn money these days. One of them is the stock market. But, wait, that’s a risky proposition, you say. I don’t know anything about stocks, you say. But, you do know about photography, I say. Invest based upon what you know.I know a thing or two, and one of them … Read more
The question was posed to me about the “terrible salaries that a significant percentage of staffers at newspapers make”, and why, while collectively, we argue how horrible shooting on spec is, rarely does anyone object to the pay scales of staffers.Fair question.First, to spec, by way of example – for many years, I was hired … Read more
The Washington Post reports in Calling In Pros to Refine Your Google Image about how people are experiencing a negative backlash on their Google presence. A search on Google for idiot, places first in it’s listings, George Bush, thanks to spam tagging/linking.The value of your existence on the search engines cannot be underestimated, but making … Read more
Aaarrggghhh. For years, I’ve watched respected photographer Louis Psihoyos produce amazing images, one of which he took a great deal of time to produce, including 500 computer monitors, as seen here, and Maestro Jobs displayed a near identical image in the background behind a graphic of the new Apple TV during his presentation, as seen … Read more
