We recently had one of the most memorable weekends we can recall hosting The Review Workshop. It’s rare as freelancers that we have the chance to be so immersed with other creatives and have the in-depth discussions that are so thoughtful, look at new work, and just flat out be inspired. The weekend was just [...]
If you follow me on Twitter you already know I sent out my photo newsletter for the month. Follow me @timgruber I tried something new with my email campaign this month and made it a newsletter format rather than a featured promo on one project. I’m not sure at this point if I’ll stick with [...]
Note: I write a lot of blog posts that go unpublished. Mainly they act as a journal for my thoughts. This blog post is more self-therapy for myself, but maybe it’ll help you a bit. This industry can do crazy things to one’s self-esteem. Where else do you hear of people paying 500 dollars for [...]
I blogged about the idea of making money doing what you love awhile back. If you haven’t yet check out that first post called Making Money Doing What You Love? I recently came across this post on ArtsHub called It’s the Business: creativity in action that got me thinking about that old post and the [...]
Communicate Your Strengths to Get Respect is an article that makes a good point about communicating our strengths as photographers. What message is your work sending? Your photos? Your website? Is it the message you want to be sending? Are the photographs on your website the type of photos you’d want a client to hire [...]
As more and more of us enter the realm of freelance photography you’ll undoubtedly come across people who absolutely love your work. All is good until they introduce the catch. They can’t afford to pay for it. A credit line doesn’t pay the rent. This post entitled When to Work for Nothing on the Shifting [...]
This recent article in the NY Times called Transforming Art Into a More Lucrative Career Choice made for a nice read on being an artist, but not a starving artist. Some artists have begun to figure out ways to make money and make art — aiming to end the notion that “starving” and “artist” are [...]
See the second portion of Making Money Doing What You Love. Seth Godin if you don’t know is a marketing guru. His blog always proves insightful on topics dealing with marketing especially if you’re working to market yourself as a freelance photographer. One of his latest posts is worth a look: Maybe you can’t make [...]
It’s worth your time to read The Freelance Dilemma on Editorial Photographers. A few highlights: To achieve longevity, you must reconcile the conflict between what you shoot for money and what you love to shoot. Ideally, you get paid to shoot exactly what you love to shoot, every day. If you create a book that [...]
Turns out call girls know a thing or two about pricing their work. The same can be applied to pricing your photography. When someone pays her $1,250 an hour, he gets exactly what he would for $200, her rate when she started out. The difference is psychological, she explained, “Tell a guy you’re $100 and [...]