Timeline for How to respond to requests to commercially use one's photos without compensation?
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| Mar 20, 2012 at 23:13 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | The world marketplace is always changing. Commercial photography is changing rapidly since taking your own pictures is getting ever more accessible and cheaper to the masses. There will continue to be a place for professional photographers, but that place will continue to shift, just like it does in any other profession. The right way to deal with that is to keep up and evolve with market demand, not to cling to the old way and then yell and scream at the world to try to get it to change back. Don't be the last ice salesman, change to selling refrigerators instead. | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 23:05 | comment | added | Olin Lathrop | While I'm not out to deliberately take work from others, I also don't see how this is my problem. Nobody has a inherent right to a gig, they have to earn it. If a pro can't outproduce and outperform a guy like me with a day job doing something else, they don't belong there. Maybe the world has too many photographers, or at least too many professional photographers. We each make our own tradeoff with what we are willing to do for what return. It's not my business what others' expectation of return is, and why is someone else's monatary reward supposed to trump my less tangible reward? | |
| Mar 20, 2012 at 15:25 | comment | added | Pat Farrell | I don't put much stock in this answer. Is this pro who needs to be paid out hustling to get the gig? Is he marketing as hard? Pro photographers are primarily businessmen, and the heart of any business is sales. Skill with the camera is secondary. | |
| Mar 18, 2012 at 10:21 | history | answered | MikeW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |