On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Tanya Mayer Photography wrote: > During the day I got phone calls from 3 separate newspapers looking for > my pics. So, I happily emailed them off, not asking for any $$ as I had > already been paid by the Mining Union and it was only like 15 minutes > work. It would have been unethical to have been paid twice for the same > job.
Woo hoo! Congrats. As to getting paid twice for the same job... well, you probably know what I'm going to say. :) That's the principle that behind stock photography, and there's nothing unethical about it. And the time frame has nothing to do with pricing. If a specialist can fix my car in 15 minutes, or if it only takes my doctor 15 minutes to remove my wisdom teeth, they're not going to give me cut rates. The customer pays for the years of training, practise and experience that the photographer has, as well as the price of purchasing and maintaining her equipment, work space, etc. It may take my doctor 15 minutes to operate on me, but it would take me over a decade of school to aquire the skills he has. You pay for that knowledge, not the time needed to exercise it. chris
