this is my first self expression to club snap. i found out that clubsnap is so amusing.
i use to come here everyday. sometime, i loged in to check.sometime i dont.
First, i think that i will try to promote myself through clubsnap. Later, I noticed that this is not a good space to promote myself. Because this place is a mixture of professionals, amatures and some professional wannabe.
for amature, they dont really care about anything. they shoot for fun only. So they dont care it is pay or free or few penny. if they get some nice photos and maybe plus some money, they are happy. And use it for fun.
For professional and practicing profesionals, they should respect them selves and their works. That is his or her standard. The pro photographer is the one who live on the earning from photography or more than half of his/her income come from photography. And the other meaning of pro is an expert. There are some respectable good pro and some are not. I never heard or think that 500$/ hour worth good respectable pro will pick up 5$/hour worth job, no matter what. That is really painful for me. All the good pro can manage their business.
Only the pros who are desperate for the job or those who use to get that range will pick up 5$/hour job. but no body cant blame them because they may have their difficulties and reasons.
As I am a practicing professional, I have my own skills and standard. and i only work in my own field or category. i will take a job which suit my range. if someone ask me to shoot events and wedding, I will say hell "No", no matter how much the pay is. They are not in my category.
I noticed that most of the people who try to find photographer in clubsnap are looking for cheap stuff. I think that the people perception to the clubsnap is a good place to find a cheap and free photographers [also something like Win-Win stuff. There is no Win-Win thing in my theory. If the One win, another one will lose.]. I think that is because of all above stated problems.
No one can help it because everyone has their freedom to do whatever they want to do. they may shoot free or less pay or 2k per hour. That is their own choice. Nobody cant help it.
that is my POV for this kind of things and use to stay away from those things.
:think:
Marius
