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Calling all GWCs; Music City Bowl creds available
Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 6:41 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> ...and "camera settings will be given..." We have truly hit bottom.
http://tinyurl.com/2e6e986
I LOVE the part about "...if minimum number of shots are not sold, NO compensation will be given." Where do I sign... |
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Chad Greene, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Knoxville | TN | USA | Posted: 7:07 AM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> I've seen those guys at all of the Tennessee games this year. They walk around the stands and outside of the stadium. I have no idea who is running it or any other details. It's people who just want to be at the game and most of the time I would see them they were just standing and watching the game. |
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Mark Peters, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Highland | IL | USA | Posted: 8:28 AM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> They have these guys at St. Louis Cardinal games too. They take pics of the fans and hand them a card with a web address where they can buy the image. |
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Michael Chang, Photographer
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Robertsdale | AL | USA | Posted: 8:58 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> Wow, talk about lowballing
· Base pay for this event is $35 for aminimum200 images
o Ifminimumnumber of“Sellable”images is not reached no compensations will be given.
· $60 for 300 images
· Every image above 300 will be paid 15 cents per image |
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Wesley R. Bush, Photographer
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Murfreesboro | TN | U.S. | Posted: 9:08 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> They should have no problem filling their spots now that it's posted on major photography website visited by countless students and amateurs. At least try to spell out how awful this is. Here's my attempt.
300 "sellable" images: Yeah, right. Let's say you're there for four hours, approaching a person or group of people every minute that you're there, which is impossible. No one is going to be interested, and you're going to be more annoying than a pushy beggar. Even if you did that, you’d still be 60 images short. So count on that big $35 payday. But for the sake of argument, we’ll say you really sprayed some people and hit your goal of 300. Four hours shooting, plus at least a half hour drive back and forth (assuming no traffic on GAME DAY). We’ll call it five hours. I won’t even mention food. Call it a photographer’s diet.
Congratulations, you just scored $12/hour under the most unrealistic scenario. Less than 300 images and you’re making less than minimum wage. |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 9:38 AM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> The spelling on that page is just terrible. There are huge mistakes everywhere, yikes. |
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Pat Lovell, Photographer
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Bloomington | IN | US | Posted: 9:43 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> I actually had my picture taken by one of these photographers at the Super Bowl in Tampa, in 09. My Dad, son and I were enjoying some adult beverages before the game and a woman came up to us, gave us a card and snap.
We went on the website a few days later and the picture was OK but we didn't buy it. It was bordered in TIRES and across the bottom had a giant tire in the middle with the Super Bowl logo and the sponsor's name. The tire covered most of my Dad in the middle...
I don't remember the price but I think it was $25 for a print and $15 for a small downloadable image. |
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Gary Mills, Photographer
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Culver | IN | USA | Posted: 10:13 AM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> I'm going to check my calendar again because it must be April Fool's Day. The base pay probably won't even cover parking. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 10:47 AM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> This looks like one of those "lottery" scams from overseas....don't think the website was put together by a person that uses english as their primary language... not that I speak or write that well but matthew is right, there are an enormous amount of mistakes. |
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Jeff Brehm, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Salisbury | NC | USA | Posted: 10:55 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> (I can't resist the irony here, or the chance to poke at Chuck)
It's "number" of mistakes, Chuck. Not "amount." |
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Dominick Reuter, Photographer
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Cambridge | MA | USA | Posted: 11:22 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> “Sellable”images are those of a personal nature, that captures the “Experience” of the event.
so that's what I've been doing wrong... |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 11:50 AM on 12.17.10 |
->> jeff, better get out your thesaurus....amount= number, sum, quota, etc....you must have went to NCSU.
bahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! |
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Al Goldis, Photographer
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East Lansing | MI | USA | Posted: 1:16 PM on 12.17.10 |
->> I have a question. It says:
"Prime candidates will possess the following…
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* A person with a desire to succeed
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Do they mean possess like in "The Exorcist" or would a slave/ indentured servant do?
Gotta love all the other grammar disasters, too, like "You will be provide you with outerwear". |
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Phil Hawkins, Photographer
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Fresno | ca | usa | Posted: 1:42 PM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> I like the part about the camera settings being given to you. Makes me feel SO much better! |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 2:05 PM on 12.17.10 |
->> I was going to mark your post as funny but I kept missing the button because I couldn't see through the tears.
Not tears of laughter either unfortunately.
You know, back in the day after reading something like that we could all just go to the dark room and hang our heads over a bath of potassium ferricyanide for a while. Digital photography has even taken that luxury away from us. |
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Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Cincinnati | OH | USA | Posted: 2:07 PM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> Ah for ****s sake. This made me so mad I used my first "back in the day" reference to age myself. I'm officially old and obsolete. |
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Steven Bisig, Photographer
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Seattle | WA | USA | Posted: 2:13 PM on 12.17.10 |
->> "No personal pocket cameras"
Crap, I thought using my iPhone 4's camera was good enough to be a pro :-) |
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Jeff Brehm, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Salisbury | NC | USA | Posted: 3:34 PM on 12.17.10 |
->> Chuck:
Not in the AP Stylebook, it isn't. You must have gone (not went) to WVU!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!
Fish, you owe me $20. I told you I could get Chuck to actually read a thesaurus. |
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Chuck Liddy, Photographer
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Durham | NC | USA | Posted: 4:55 PM on 12.17.10 |
| ->> Fish, you owe me $50 for suckering Brehm into taking the bait..... |
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Steven E. Frischling, Photographer
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->> There is no proof Chuck read a thesaurus. For all we know he asked an intern to do it ...
... wait a moment ... 'ain't' ain't in the AP Stylebook? |
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Tim Casey, Photographer
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Gainesville | FL | USA | Posted: 2:31 AM on 12.22.10 |
->> A similar, or maybe even the same, company does this at the University of Florida football games.
They are given the same workspace as the working press, which makes us really happy that people hired off the street will be around our gear when we're out shooting the game.
I've overheard them going over the camera settings:
ISO 200, f8, 1/200, flash on auto
This seems to be the same if it's a day or night game.
I was photographed by someone with the same company while at a Mets game a couple of years ago. They gave me a card with a code to enter to see the image. I expected it to be expensive, but I was curious to see how it looked. Totally back-focused, blown out background.
It's amazing to me that people pay for these photos, especially considering the quality of photo you can get out of a camera phone now. |
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Michael Chang, Photographer
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