It is entirely reasonable for a second to expect a pay increase after shooting with you multiple times. Typically, the second will be considerably more valuable to you after the second learns your style, your signals, your approach with clients. Not to mention the likelihood that the second\'s actual shooting skills probably will have improved.
Did you increase her pay over time? If so, did you link those pay increases to specific, measurable improvements? This is an important part of managing your relationship with your second shooter(s), and is an aspect of management that I think many photographers don\'t handle well. (Not that you\'re necessarily at fault in this way.)
May 06, 2012 at 11:37 AM
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