Haiti Disaster Relief Print Sales
The other day I donated some money to The American Red Cross to help with the Haiti disaster relief. After seeing more of the pictures coming out of Haiti (warning, graphic photos at that link) I decided I wanted to try and do more. So, I will be donating 100% of the proceeds from the next ten print sales* from my etsy page to The American Red Cross or Oxfam (buyer choice) to help with the Haiti disaster relief . Print prices range from $50 – $200 depending on the size of the print, so the larger the print the more money will be going to Haiti relief. All prints are individually custom printed by me.
When Quality Is Job None
I thought I’d post a link to a blog entry I read recently on John Loomis’ Blog about the bidding process and low priced photographers. It was a coincidence he posted about this subject when he did because not a week before his post I was confronted with the same exact problem he writes about and was discussing it with some other photographers. I guess all photographers who value their work and bid on projects accordingly run into this problem all the time. The problem of course being photographers who bid next to nothing for a shoot and give away all their rights to the images.
As a client, I would be worried about hiring the lowest bidder for fear that they don’t really know what they’re getting into. If you’re dealing with a larger production and someone says they can do it for a quarter of what an experienced photographer can do the job , chances are they don’t really understand the complexity of the shoot. Once you’ve hired this photographer, you may not know how badly things are going to turn out until its too late. Not only that, there is usually a reason the low priced photographer is low priced and even if it isn’t a big production you can’t be sure of the quality you will get.
Unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world and quite often it is the lowest bidder, and thus lowest quality, that is chosen. Not only that, often times “good enough” is good enough as can be seen by the abundance of visual crap we see on a daily basis. I remember not too long ago, after i submitted an estimate for a job I was called by the potential client asking if I could come down in my price. They told me another photographer was significantly lower in price. I asked who the photographer was and looked at his work online. As politely as I could, I let them know why that photographer was so cheap. Clearly they would have been getting a lower quality photograph. The potential client’s response to this was… and I kid you not… “how much would you charge to take a bad photograph?” I laughed and told him I just didn’t think it would work out.
Here is to the clients that want to produce something better than”just good enough.” Thank you!
Misty Rocks
This week I’m shooting a series of image for San Francisco Magazine. Normally I’m hired to photograph people, but they liked my beachscapes of the Santa Cruz area. So, for this shoot I’ll be photographing Costanoa, which is just south of Pescadero. So, weather permitting I’ll be heading down the coast the next few days.
OOF
I’ve been a bit busy the last couple weeks. The most time consuming thing is my move to a new location and studio in San Francisco. I also shot a small campaign for the Franciscan winery. This image was actually the image that made them want to hire me. You can see the ad running in Esquire soon. Well, back to unpacking.
Old Men
I’ve been busy working on a few different projects and some fun things like promotion… I thought I’d at least update some pics even if I’m not saying much! These pics were from another personal project I was working on. I would photograph interesting looking older people in the park. I love these guys… I call the one on the left the “latin lover.” I can just picture him driving many women at the senior center crazy!
