Just credit? Not for me

gregpphoto wrote in post #7966095
Take gardening. You may love to garden, LOVE IT, but are you going to tend your neighborhoods lawns and flowers, for free? Not likely. Gear heads? You'll work on your car till dawn, but will you fix someone else's, for free?

Just get paid. Then we all win haha.

I agree to a point, What if Mario Andreti asked you to work on his car? Or Dale Ernhart JR?

Would you turn them down because they asked you to do it for nothing?

Pick the places you give your photos for free. Tasha and I have done this for the notoriety and have gotten payed back in the work it generates. Not that we do this as a living.

I am not sure I want to do it for a living. Then it gets to be a job....

Greg

gregpphoto wrote in post #7966095
Take gardening. You may love to garden, LOVE IT, but are you going to tend your neighborhoods lawns and flowers, for free? Not likely. Gear heads? You'll work on your car till dawn, but will you fix someone else's, for free?
Just get paid. Then we all win haha.

Yes, happens all the time.

James D wrote in post #7964523
I agree with this 100% and in time having the ability to claim you have been published opposed to only being Flickered will set you apart. Those publications will also continue to raise the bar for quality photos they accept, to make my point juts look at a magazine form the 1980s and the pictures in them compared to the pictures in more recent magazines.
Once you are established, accredited, and have a reputation only then you can start really charging and expect to get paid.

i dunno...i've seen a ton of fair to outright lousy music photos published on a routine basis...

gregpphoto wrote in post #7966095
Take gardening. You may love to garden, LOVE IT, but are you going to tend your neighborhoods lawns and flowers, for free?

My mom does, I know she does for at LEAST 5 neighbors..that's what hobbiest's do. When I raced motocross...I worked on my friends bikes for free...I even worked on peoples bikes at the track (who I didn't know) for free.

narlus wrote in post #7970111
i dunno...i've seen a ton of fair to outright lousy music photos published on a routine basis...

ALL the time