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amonline wrote:
Lost opportunity... even if this landed you one gig, it would have been worth it. I think many photogs are far too greedy in this area, and overlook the potential rewards.
What are the potential rewards?
Establishing, no, reinforcing a precedent that the work product of a photographer that is good enough to print is yet not good enough to pay for?
What are the potential rewards?
Do these rewards pay the studio rent? Buy electricity? Put food on the table? Put kids through college? Pay the mortgage? Do they even pay for the photographer's website hosting fees that enabled the magazine editor to find the freakin photos in the first place?
What are the potential rewards?
Advertising? The OP offered his photos free in exchange for mentioning his name and what he does for business, and he was turned down. They just wanted to use his photo, to make their publication pretty, without paying him for it. The trades he offered were turned down. They weren't donating, so why should he? Even the delivery guy who distributes this tourism rag from hotel to hotel gets paid, but not the photographer?
What are the potential rewards?
Status by association? AKA Bragging rights? From a tiny tucked away byline that no one but photographers ever even notices? And for a wedding photographer who presumably services his/her local community primarily, what need have these locals to read or even know the existence of a Tourism magazine, for where they live, work, and grew up? Tourism mags, by definition, are for out of towners. Unless one is in Las Vegas, weddings are typically planned, not something that people decide to do on a tour bus to Disneyland or Hot Springs.
What are the potential rewards?
Because I'd really like to know. Other than feeling used, because one is actually being used, I'm not seeing any in this situation. And I'm not greedy. I'd have been all too happy to let them use my photos, for free, for the promotion of my local community... the only problem is that it isn't really free. The true price paid is the demotion of my professional community, and the further the value of this even larger community sinks, the further I sink with it.
So, I ask you, what are these potential rewards?
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