CSU photo Alum’s Real Estate Photos Featured in New York Times

New York Times, our newspaper of record, recently published an article comparing what you get in residential real estate for under $250,000 in three states, including Ohio.

The Ohio house is located in Shaker Heights. Recent CSU photo graduate Austin Cupach made the photographs of the house featured in the article. Austin did an internship with VNTG Home while at CSU. He is now employed as a Marketing/Real Estate Photographer there. He did an amazing job.

Check out Austin’s images at nytimes.com here.

Nikon D850: Just for Men?

To promote a new camera, Nikon enlisted 32 photographers from Asia, Africa and the Middle East to try it out and tell their stories on the company’s website.

But Nikon couldn’t — or didn’t — find any women to participate. All 32 were men. Read more from the New York Times.

Evelyn Hockstein is vice-president of the Women Photojournalists of Washington, a non-profit created to promote the role of women in photojournalism, foster their professional success, and mentor emerging photographers. She has offered her services to identify female candidates for Nikon’s campaign. Read more from The Guardian.

This has led some commentators to raise the inevitable question: When will the girl version be released? Read more on Fstoppers.com.

The Case for Professional Photographers

File Under: You Get What You Pay For

Well, that happened. The Tribe was SO CLOSE. But Cleveland is a Championship City. And when we win big, we want it documented properly. See more about how some in Chicago got it right, and others – not so much.

The Chicago Cubs finally won the World Series last night after 108-year drought. But what has some photojournalists talking are the cover photos published by two of Chicago’s biggest newspapers, the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago Sun-Times.

As you might remember, the Sun-Times (the 8th largest paper in the US by circulation) laid off its entire staff of photographers back in 2013 and then sent a memo to its reporters about training them in iPhone photography.

The Tribune (the 10th largest paper), on the other hand, still employs its own staff photojournalists. One of these is Brian Cassella, who shot the latest cover photo.

Perhaps due to these differing views on photography, photo industry pundits immediately began pointing out the differences in the front page photos immediately after they left the presses.

Read more at Peta Pixel.

 

Who Pays Photographers (And How Much)

Alex Lau for Bon Appétit Magazine

From magazines to agencies, this is the ultimate resource for discovering how much, or how little, top publications will pay for your photography.

When it comes to pricing your photography, publications can be a stumbling block. Newspapers, magazines and online publications rarely advertise their rates and furthermore, those rates can vary based on assignments. Have you been published before? Is your work very exclusive and highly desirable? Are you willing to sell your work for less if it’s a prestigious publishing credit?

Read format.com’s actual answers – with dollar amounts from anonymous photographers working for named publications.

Commercial Photography – Fall 2016

ART 334:
Special Topics: Commercial Photography

Part studio course, part professional practices. This class will prepare you for several different photography career options:

• Event and wedding photography
• Fashion and glamour
• Product and catalog photography
• Headshots and portraits
• Food and still life photography
• Editorial photography
• Stock photography
• Freelance
• …and professional practices for photographers

ART334 will meet Tue & Thu 3:15-5:45pm in Fall 2016
Questions: m.slankard@csuohio.edu

Um, No (only more informative and polite)

I once used this blog to pass on opportunities for low (or non) paying photographic opportunities to you, my students.  Every spring, I get calls, emails and messages from the office from people wanting student photographers for a wedding or some other event.  Of course, these inquiries are because students are cheap or free, not really to “help you build your portfolio”.  That, and you would be taking work away from someone trying to make a living using photography (like you hopefully will do one day).  So I stopped doing it.

Now I just came across an online resource that every emerging photographer should bookmark.  Next time you get an inquiry that wants to “pay” you with “credit”, “exposure” or chump change, simply paste this link into a reply:

http://photoprofessionals.wordpress.com/

The open letter begins:

Dear potential photo buyer,

If you have been directed to this page, it is likely that you have requested the use of an image or images for free or minimal compensation.

As professional photographers, we receive requests for free images on a regular basis. In a perfect world, each of us would love to be able to respond in a positive manner and assist, especially with projects or efforts related to areas such as education, social issues, and conservation of natural resources. It is fair to say that in many cases, we wish we had the time and resources to do more to assist than just send photographs.

Unfortunately, such are the practicalities of life that we are often unable to respond, or that when we do, our replies are brief and do not convey an adequate sense of the reasons underlying our response…

NOTE: I will still pass along some low and no pay opportunities for good causes or university related events.  And since we’ll be moving in with Theater this spring, I am hoping for some collaborations, such as providing headshots and production stills. Don’t think you’re going to get paid for that.