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Photographers - What are you paying for? (Part One)
by Jo O'Brien^Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called l…
Disclaimer: This is not legal advice or even professional advice. This is some stuff I’ve learned along this funny little thing called life and may not apply in any way to your current situation. At worst, it’s my opinion, at best it’s some ideas for you to think about. If you need real proper advice, go see your solicitor. I’m of the opinion that photography should make me money, not cost me money. So far, I have been successful is making more from a photograph than it took me to create. Here is my list of not so secret tips and advice on covering your arse and saving your cash. When To Pay There are times where spending your hard earned money is the right choice. For example to obtain goods or services you can not find for less (or free) elsewhere. Or when you have done all the maths yourself and you feel you are buying into a good deal. But there are also some pit falls to watch out for. Art Direction, Ideas and Intellectual Property My rule of thumb, if I am paying to shoot, I should have full rights to everything I take. No ifs buts or maybes about it. If you shoot a commercial, the art direction team put together a shoot and then hire a photographer to take photos of what they and the crew have created. They pay for lighting design, they pay the models, they pay the hair stylist, they pay the guy who makes the coffees- and they pay the photographer. Some businesses operate under a similar model but suck money out of photographers in the process. As part of a ‘workshop’ or ‘event’, several photographers rock up with their cameras and take photos of a scene. Often they have little or no control of the setup, can’t communicate properly with the models and will walk out of it with similar images to everyone else who attended! In the worst cases they have restricted rights regarding how they use their images. So is essence, they have paid for something that out in the real world, would be making them money. Sorry if it sounds confusing, the concept completely baffles me. When you are shooting someone else’s ideas and have restricted publishing rights or have little influence over the set up, posing, lighting or set design, (in my opinion) you should be getting paid by them. After all, you are doing them a favor by taking images of their creative work. Classes or Tuition Wanting to improve you skills and knowledge is a great thing. And there are numerous classes, mentors and workshops available for you to choose from. If you are going to pay to attend these, make sure you are getting what you pay for. Before you hand over any cash there are a few details that you should have to help make your decision. Class Size: The more people attending, the cheaper the class should be. If there is a practical component, I usually wont accept a class bigger than 10-12 / Location & Time: no point signing up for an ‘on location’ workshop only to find it is out of your way. Also as a safety issue, you should always be able to tell a trusted person exactly where and when you will be shooting. / The Teacher: You should be able to find and contact the person facilitating the class to verify their experience and ask questions. It not always convenient for a facilitator to take calls from a whole class, but you should be able to send them an email and get a reply without going through a middle man. / Contracts: Ask if you will need to sign any contracts and insist upon receiving them before paying. / What do you get: do you get class notes to take home? Exactly what does the course entail? What can you hope to know and have learned at the end of the course? Contracts These are a great way to waste your money. They also happen to be very important. First and foremost contracts exists to make people money or stop people from making money. So before signing anything, read it a few times and make sure you are aware of what your actions are costing you. If you need to get images approved before sale or publication, you could be agreeing to never publishing or selling any images taken if none are ‘approved.’ It is completely reasonable to request changes to a contract or write your own and offer it instead. Don’t sign away potential income! You should always be able to take a contract away and show it to other people for advice before signing it, and especially before paying for anything. If you are not given this opportunity, my advice is to avoid it with a ten foot pole. And then there are the bazillion poorly written contracts that mean very little or nothing at all. It’s actually quite funny to me sometimes, what people will put on paper. Useful Links Australian Competition & Consumer Commission / Scam Watch Photographers – What are you paying for (part 2).
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Why is it not / in the budget / when the money / is really there ? / Need a raise ? / Many people have work hard on their jobs, get goverment check,etc, / they ask & look for ask, a raise, was promise one, / only to find out that / it’s not in the budget / when truly it is.
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A shiny gold pocket watch on a chain may be the classic method, but there’s an even older tried and true way that’s a lot more affordable! Available in dark colors
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... GONE the City’s Art and Music Education’s Budget. / (Yeah! We all want Instant FUN!)
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I'm cooking
by Jo O'BrienI moved out of home when I was 14 so I never really leaned how to cook. My partner and I tend to live on $6 Parma nights and $10 steak n…
I moved out of home when I was 14 so I never really leaned how to cook. My partner and I tend to live on $6 Parma nights and $10 steak nights at the local pubs and supplement that with good and cheap Indian, Italian and Thai food from Lygon Street when we feel like we’ve been eating too much crap. I love it really, choosing somewhere, walking over, choosing from several meals what you feel like, telling someone how you like it so that they can cook it for you just right, eating it amongst other people, all the banter and talking about each other’s day, and then the best bit… handing someone a VISA card and leaving without having to clear a single plate or wash a single pot! Well recently due to budgetary constraints the ‘eating out 6 nights a week’ habit had to go and I have begun cooking. It was a shaky start with a few disappointments but the last few meals have been better than most of the stuff I order from restaurants. Right now I’ve got sweet and sour chicken in the oven and my kitchen smells divine! I would never consider myself the cooking type. I’ve been known to burn pasta, undercook meat, overcook everything else, mix the wrong things, leave things out, make 5 times what is required and many other problems. Maybe if I search somewhere deep inside myself there is a 1950s housewife waiting to emerge fully equipped with a floral apron and rolling pin?
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‘Abstract Series’
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Conceptual view of the retirement day. The gold watch is the reward of all the years of hard work and now money is more important than ever. /
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"NOT IN THE BUDGET" - FEATURED- ART ACTION UNION
by Elenne BootheHi, thank you so much to the awesome group ART ACTION UNION-CREATIVE ACTIVISM, for featuring my T-Shirt “NOT IN THE BUDGET”. I came up w…
Hi, thank you so much to the awesome group ART ACTION UNION-CREATIVE ACTIVISM, for featuring my T-Shirt “NOT IN THE BUDGET”. I came up with those words because 2 to 3 of my last jobs always would say: it’s not in the budget. even if you ask for supplys, not in the budget, even the goverment and the governer of California is saying not in the budget. so many people are hurting and suffering, working hard and no raises, one of my friends who is a plays in a lot of bands said she was going to wear her’s everyday to make a statement. I put the same words on a hat. Even though I am unemployed lack of shows coming to town, It’s hard. My thing is when will it be in the budget for raises, for seniors, health care and so much more. I work as a wardrobe person for theatre plays that comes to Los Angeles and have work for a few artist, But their budget is so low few people or being hiried. I haven’t work in a month. keep me in your prayers and pray for our goverment. Right now I am paying $389.00 for health insurance and may have to drop it this month. My prayers are for all who is trying to manage their lives on low income. God Bless and may you all prosper in all you do. Love Elenne
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Dad tightens the Christmas budget and blames Santa.
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Conceptual view of wasting money. A perfect example of government spending.
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Cost of living has gone up / yet the jobs or the goverment we are with won’t give any raises, / saying it’s not in the budget. / yet they get what they want when / they need something. / Let’s wear this T-shirt and let them know / we need raise on these jobs and on our mothly goverment checks. / I’m praying and dreaming of better days. / By Elenne Boothe
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A shiny gold pocket watch on a chain may be the classic method, but there’s an even older tried and true way that’s a lot more affordable! / Also available on light-colored tees
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From the Black and white series Vol.2
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Welcome home... oh and get out.
by VioletThings are a little tight in our household at the moment. I’ve been saving on money by making as many things that we need as possible and…
Things are a little tight in our household at the moment. I’ve been saving on money by making as many things that we need as possible and recycling things to make new things. I’ve been really into decorating the house but due to a couple of things out of our control our budget is stretched for food. As a result I’m becoming quite crafty. I’ve become quite clever with our food too. At the moment we’re spending max $50 on food per week. My health has been failing a little bit too which doesn’t help much. Things are looking a bit glum right now. Please let something nice happen soon :(
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Reflections on a Nation - The Federal Budget
by Paul LambleIt has often been said that a democratic country gets the Government it deserves. With this in mind I have been reflecting on the Federal…
It has often been said that a democratic country gets the Government it deserves. With this in mind I have been reflecting on the Federal Budget and what it says about Australia as a nation. Particularly in an election year, the spending priorities of the Government reflect what they believe to be the priorities of the people that will re-elect them. So, what do we make of this budget? In essence, it is a sad reflection of our self-centredness, short term horizons and greed. We’d much rather tax cuts worth an extra coffee a day than to: / 1) Deliver sufficient funding to meet our obligations under the UN Millennium Development Goals which would make a huge difference to millions of people living in poverty; / 2) Invest in parenting and young children by providing home visits and support to new parents and parents with children under 2 years of age. Trials of such programs in NSW have shown massive improvements in children’s welfare, significant reductions in parental stress, depression etc and a whole stack of other benefits that make a massive difference over a child’s life. Unfortunately, the funding for a national roll-out of such a program is not forthcoming; / 3) Invest in our future to tackle climate change. Measures could involve serious investigations and research into new technologies, assistance to commercialise emerging technologies, rebates to encourage the uptake of energy efficient appliances, invest in new electricity generation infrastructure, undertake wholesale reviews of our transport systems, taxation and planning structures etc etc. There is much to be done. / 4) Invest in water. See comments above on climate change. This is just a start. The fact that extremely large budget surpluses are being generated indicates that the government has plenty of revenue coming in and that our politicians are bereft of nation building ideas. Not every dollar has to be spent or thrown away in tax and cash handouts. I’m certain that there are plenty of projects out there that are worth investing in (from either an economic, social or environmental view point). Unfortunately, these investments are not being made. While polls continue to show that people would much rather better services and investments in the future than tax cuts – the politicians seem to go for the tax cut – and we don’t seem to object. We don’t protest in the streets and we don’t vote them out of office. In spite of what we say, perhaps the reality of our actions as a nation is a bit hard to swallow – we really would much rather money in our own pocket than a better hospital that someone else uses or a clean water supply in a village somewhere in Africa…...
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Ahh, Apartment Hunting
by Katelynn PhillimoreI never really thought about how badly I wanted to live on my own until recently, and I’ve begun hardcore apartment hunting. My parents a…
I never really thought about how badly I wanted to live on my own until recently, and I’ve begun hardcore apartment hunting. My parents are young and they have a new baby girl, which is fine with me but I feel like I’m out of place. My two other sisters are 15 year old twins but they feel better there than I do. I’m almost 18, I can work and I am very independent. Why not go for it then? The problem is, my boyfriend and his friend Mat, are going to be my roommates. Great, except that they constantly change their minds and can’t seem to just pick a darn apartment. Mat is claiming that maybe his “home life will get better” and Kaleb agrees with me; we just want to get out of there. Too bad Kaleb can’t pick where to live and wants to wait until February 2009! And we have to keep Mat on board; our budget is limited. Kaleb and I are only paid minimum wage and it would be pretty hard to get by on $1,000.00 a month between the two of us. I mean, rent alone is $750.00, plus we would need food, clothing and other basic care neccesities. I’ve got my list down but they are so slow, and I don’t want to be a welfare bum or apply to geared-to-income housing because I know we can be self-sufficient. Is there any way I can make them choose faster? Or at least speed up the moving out process? P.S.; Any kind of “first apartment” tips would be excellent. ;)
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Budget accommodation in the city of angels. Los Angeles, California, USA
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Stacking of Saudi Riyals
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