For Clients
17
Jan 2012

Identity Crisis

A recent Black Star blog post by Jim Pickerell gives advice to photographers who are trying to licence their stock pictures. He’s been involved in the stock photo business for over 40 years.

Pickerell writes that since there’s such an oversupply of stock images, photographers need to get their pictures seen by photo buyers. He then goes on to list some numbers and statistics.

The interesting takeaway from this article is for any business that’s thinking about using stock pictures for its marketing instead of commissioning its own original corporate photography or business photography.

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For Photographers
15
Jan 2012

No cheque in the mail

Dilbert.com

From time to time, newer professional photographers ask what they should do when a client is late to pay. The answer is easy: remind them to pay.

Okay, maybe it’s not quite that simple.

When a client hasn’t paid within whatever time period the photographer has set, (and the photographer is free to set any time period they want), often the reason is that the client has lost or misplaced the invoice or has simply forgotten to pay it. Yes, it would be nice if we could “forget” to pay the phone bill, credit card bill, cable bill …

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For Photographers
09
Jan 2012

Photographically Speaking

From A to Z, here’s some photographers’ jargon that you probably won’t ever want to use:

Aggressive pixels – A picture shot extremely tight. For example: when all others are using a 70-200mm lens, the photographer using a 400mm is said to be shooting aggressive pixels.

American Idol Effect – A reference to picture sites like Flickr.

Autotard – A photographer who always has their camera on the “Auto” setting.

Available darkness – Working in a very dark location without flash. “The location was so dark, the pictures had to be shot using available darkness.”

Baby zoomer – A wide-angle zoom lens.

Bacon assignment – A job that pays much more than it’s worth.

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For Everyone
03
Jan 2012

Work only half a day per year

A year ago, I wrote a post about a Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) survey which showed that Canada’s top CEOs earned the equivalent of the average annual Canadian income by 2:30 PM on January 3rd, (based on 2009 numbers).

The CCPA released this year’s survey results (based on 2010 numbers). Canada’s top CEOs now earn the equivalent of the average annual Canadian income even sooner.

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives’ annual look at CEO compensation reveals that by 12:00 noon on January 3rd, the first official working day of the year, Canada’s Elite 100 CEOs (the 100 highest paid CEOs of companies listed in the TSX Index) will have already pocketed $44,366. It takes the Average Joe an entire year, working full-time, to earn that same amount.

This represents a 27% pay increase from the previous year. The average Canadian received a 1.1% increase.

The CCPA has a depressing pay clock here.

 

 

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For Clients
03
Jan 2012

Annual Report photography

Annual reports contain a mix of corporate photography and editorial photography along with, perhaps, a small touch of advertising photography. Other than to publish a company’s financial numbers, an annual report has to show what the company does, how it does what it does and show its accomplishments from the past fiscal year.

As we move into the traditional season for annual reports, here are some suggestions for the photography:
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