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10 Horrible Excuses For Not Paying a Professional Photographer

Chris Gampat
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04/20/2014
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We’ve all heard them…photographers always are just so close to getting ripped off all the time. Here are some of the best quotes that we’ve heard.

– Our friend has a DSLR, and that’ll work fine

– That much for just one quick portrait of me? No, thank you (When someone doesn’t understand the need to step into a studio or anything else in terms of the science behind posing a subject correctly)

– We can pay you in free drinks and food (when the food and drinks equivalent to your pay scale is larger than you can consume)

– This is a charity event and you can use it as a tax write off (when in fact, you can’t most of the time)

– We’re a brand new band and we can’t pay anyone, but you can use them for your portfolio (when the manager doesn’t realize that the band is an investment and that any image that one shoots is always for their portfolio)

– We’re looking for a photographer for a trial. It may perhaps lead to future work. (it never does.)

– We’ll be able to pay you in lots of free samples of our product.

– We’re looking for an intern that will carry lights, retouch the photos, and work the camera.

– But we’re feeding you at the wedding!

– Our website has over 30,000 hits and you’ll be able to get a lot of exposure. (unfortunately, I worked at a company that was very guilty of doing this.)

– Bonus: My uncle has this Canon camera, and he always takes the pictures at our family venues. Everybody loves his pictures, he’s really a great photographer. Also, with a professional camera, anyone can take great pictures

– Bonus Bonus: But everyone has an iPhone.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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