Event Photographers Wanted!
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ortega
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ok i go but only to shoot the animals, can or not ah?
Im a newbie and here is my comments:
(no hard feelings pls.. tis is a blog anyway and everyone can have watever opinions)
(1) To the originator of the post: If your friends are looking for photographers, most probably they are taking up projects and only sub-contracting this part out. If that is the case, it is very unprofessional for them to provide such budget for photographers, and let their customers take the risk of mediocre photography results. I am a marketer, if I know of such company I work with, I believe that would be the end of my relationship with that company and I will not hesitate to spread words around my network to be careful. :devil:
(2) To newbies, it is not a matter of passion here, it is just a matter of being exploited. Wat's more,being employed, are you certain you can produce result? I think so long as you are paid, be it $5 or $500 dollars, we should feel the responsibility to produce, if not the passion in the first place is quite worthless?
(3) To newbies, most probably you might not know the market rate of professionals, but day shoot is easily $150/hr with night shoots double of that. (Maybe some professionals here can verify) $5?? :nono:
The consequence of spoiling the market, would be that standards of creativity will just remain stagnant or even go down the drain. Just like what piracy did to the HongKong movie market.
peace
(no hard feelings pls.. tis is a blog anyway and everyone can have watever opinions)
(1) To the originator of the post: If your friends are looking for photographers, most probably they are taking up projects and only sub-contracting this part out. If that is the case, it is very unprofessional for them to provide such budget for photographers, and let their customers take the risk of mediocre photography results. I am a marketer, if I know of such company I work with, I believe that would be the end of my relationship with that company and I will not hesitate to spread words around my network to be careful. :devil:
(2) To newbies, it is not a matter of passion here, it is just a matter of being exploited. Wat's more,being employed, are you certain you can produce result? I think so long as you are paid, be it $5 or $500 dollars, we should feel the responsibility to produce, if not the passion in the first place is quite worthless?
(3) To newbies, most probably you might not know the market rate of professionals, but day shoot is easily $150/hr with night shoots double of that. (Maybe some professionals here can verify) $5?? :nono:
The consequence of spoiling the market, would be that standards of creativity will just remain stagnant or even go down the drain. Just like what piracy did to the HongKong movie market.
peace
At least there is still some hope left in the photography industry, there's some still some wise newbie that make some sense. KUDOS to you. :thumbsup:
who knows this might be actually an animal event...
Ryonpepper
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I thot Mac shld be paying $5/hr liao ba. Faint man if Mac now paying only $2.80???
Wha say, around 18yrs back I work there, they paid me only $1.90 plus free 1 meal(limited choices). So after 18yrs, $2.80 meaning $0.05 cents increment per year!!
Opss.... sorry for OT but really want to know how much Mac paying now ;p
But sometimes it makes me wonder when Canon or Nikon organize an event with a photo contest, most will be rushing to take part.:bsmilie:
What did you get in return ?
A t-shirt ,some freebies ,a bottle of water and a chance to win.
No pay, own equipment, own food and the photos submitted belongs to the organizer.
Just my 2cents thought.:dunno:
Don't flame me.:sweatsm:
No offences, just a fun reply.
The diff between a job, being emploied by someone and shooting in a contest is,
when you're on job, you have to take instructions from the boss, you have to produce the goods, you have a respondsibility to the company, there's no such things as a retake ( in most cases ), if you scr*w up the job you scr*w up your reputation.
When you 're shooting for a contest, there's no pressure, no respondsibility, you can walk away anytime you like, and if you son't like it, you can ask the org'er get lost and you just don't submit your shots.
Oh, by the way, if you win in the contest, the prize is better than the pay here :bsmilie:
biggmalique
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flame on!
is more than this....
"hey.. we can go to clubsnap to find photographers, there are many cheap and good photographers, and also desperate for shoots...."
This is already happening lar, an event org'er ask me to quote for a job and I told him the job require more than 1 photographer to cover. He said he needs me to be the main photographer to shoot the VIPs and he already got some cheep photographer from CS to shoot for close to free.
what??
cheap and creepy photographers from CS??
is this how people describe photographers are from CS??
cheap and creepy photographers from CS??
is this how people describe photographers are from CS??
Lord_Angelus
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most of my friends who is at the working line said that Some people who go to CS look for cheap photograher at there.
i think 5 dollars an hour is not even enough to cover shutter count. transport. mandai is quite inaccessible.
hell even part timers working as technicians at sls earn more than that. and they just stand there. photogs have to stand there. carry heavy equipment. risk back injuries in the long run. AND USE YOUR BRAINS to shoot.
i rather do them a favour and shoot for free. 5/hr can be considered as a token of appreciation.
I think one of this days one of us have to go to the event and inform the BIG BOSS himself that things like this is happen and every one on the forum knows that his company is so cheapskate. His company is only worth $5/- an hour. Maybe that will stop others from coming here to do things like this!!
Sorry, typo error, it should be cheap and not cheep :sweatsm:
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