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Illegal Motion

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Football has a penalty called “illegal motion” which is when an offensive player is in forward motion before the ball is snapped.

Speaking of offensive, there’s a contest currently being run by a Photoshop magazine (not affiliated with Adobe). The contest winner gets to pretend they’re a pro photographer on the sidelines at a USA college football game. The contest is open only to amateurs.

The prize is “a dream sports assignment of a lifetime” and includes: the winner will be loaned the necessary gear (with which they probably have no experience using); they will go to the stadium’s media room to get a “big spread of all kinds of food”, a “full blown buffet”; they will “mingle with other media folks”; and finally, the winner gets a media pass to shoot on the sidelines.
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Sure thing or lottery ticket

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Since I’m on this “cheap” rant:

A while ago, a local Toronto business e-mailed and asked for a quote to shoot some public relations photos to be used mostly as media handouts. I quoted about $2,600 (photography spread over two days, assistant, post-processing, expenses, taxes) and didn’t hear back from that business.

“Oh well,” I thought, “I guess I didn’t get that job.”

Then about a month later, the same company called and asked when I might be available.
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Cheap Photographer

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A couple of months ago, I got a phone call from the photo editor at one of the largest newspapers in Canada. He wanted “magazine-style” portraits of a business person here in Toronto. The photo editor said he required six different looks each with different lighting and a variety of backgrounds.

Best part of all? Not only was he willing to pay $150 but he would also pay mileage!


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