That was great On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:37 PM, David Savage <ozsav...@gmail.com> wrote: > Every time a hear a discussion about giving away photographs (and > pricing in such a way as it's almost the same thing) this interview > with Harlan Ellison comes to mind: > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE> > > Cheers, > > Dave > > 2009/3/19 William Robb <war...@gmail.com>: >> Repost from April 1, 2001. >> Perhaps it bears repeating. >> >> Don't be a cheap whore, you won't get respected for it, and when >> you want to graduate to being a high class whore, no one will be >> willing to pay you for it. I have seen it happen before in my >> under populated part of the world. >> People will only value your work as much as you do. >> >> The guy I mentored with had a thriving weekend wedding business >> going. In 1972, I started going out on paying jobs with him, >> learning how to photograph weddings. By 1975, he had over a >> dozen photographers working for him, shooting weddings. Over >> time, these people started going out on their own, becoming >> competition for the trade. Eventually, the market for wedding >> photographers saturated to the point where my mentor decided to >> become more competitive. He started dropping his prices. He is >> now on welfare, and pretty god damned bitter about it. >> >> Being a cheap whore is always a mistake. >> >> People will pay quality money for what they percieve as a >> quality job. By charging cheap, you are sending a message that >> you don't think your work is worth their money. This is not a >> strategy for long term business success. >> >> You want to know >> what happens in markets where someone comes in and low balls the >> available work? Everyone suffers for it. The photographers >> suffer because some idiot is saying that photo portraiture isn't >> worth paying for, and everyone has to drop their prices to >> compete. The clients suffer because with the new, lower pricing, >> quality suffers, because it isn't worthwhile to do a good job >> anymore. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. >
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