Reply To: Fauxtographer running rampant

[dont.care]

yea, you’re probably right ;]  Over half of the people I shoot for don’t like the idea of being plastered on the net..I do a lot of work for the ‘well to do, better off’ folks..  One guy is a pharmaceutical injectable distributor that require me to do editing @ his office and I don’t keep any files and immediately sign over all rights to the photos.. Pays good, don’t care :P. I don’t mind posting street photos or random objects, but as far as my paying clients go–never. I don’t like the idea of having to work for someone else, so I keep my people happy. When I said I didn’t advertize, that is to say I don’t have a ton of clients, but the ones I do have are the ones that go off shore fishing and I end up going too, or have a daughter/son get married, I end up shooting it; car collections, private homes, insurance photos, portraits, family photos, engagements, etc. I don’t do “cd’s”, what I usually end up doing is contact sheets and handing those over with a sharpie.. Basically it comes down to–I keep my clients near and dear.. I believe in repeat customers vs. pandering for new ones.. I do get new clients ever so often, but generally they are some how connected to my old ones..  But yea, my business model works.. I’m sure nothing would come of it if I did and shit did some how get propagated through the net.. But the best remedy to most problems is to avoid them all together

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