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With the increasing popularity of remote portfolio meetings, we thought it would be useful to collect hard data on how clients engage with photographers.
We recently extended the licensing of images from a hotel shoot for a third time. While this by itself is not uncommon, there were many other interesting facets of the negotiation. So I thought it would be useful to share for photographers grappling with similar situations.
Photographers think a lot about how to make money, but saving is a different story. It’s a unique challenge for many photographers. Here’s how to meet it.
When I graduated from college, I knew that newspapers hired photographers because I read The New York Times, and I knew that magazines hired photographers because I read Vogue. But that’s about all I knew. So when I realized that I would need more than two clients to sustain a freelance photography career, I decided to do some research.
Thanks to all the creative directors, art buyers, and photo editors who responded to our survey of their favorite photographers of 2022. Here are the results, separated by specialty:
We recently heard from several photographers who received an email from someone claiming to be the creative director of Miami Vibes Magazine. While the detailed creative brief made the project seem legitimate at first glance, it turned out to be a hoax.
Wonderful Machine teamed up with ASMP Colorado on May 14th for a fun and informative virtual event covering the business of photography. Our photo editors, marketing specialists, and producers shared trends in branding, marketing, social media, SEO, estimating, and shoot production.
We’re excited to announce that we’ve added a new behind-the-scenes video feature to our photographer profiles. The video provides prospective clients with a sense of what it’s like to work with a photographer and it’s a great way for our photographers to show their personalities.
They say, “it’s not what you know, but who you know.” While that’s not entirely true – knowledge is power – and in order to be successful, photographers need to have ready access to all sorts of information.
Welcome to our Find Photographers search page! You may experience a little learning curve, but we think you’ll love the new features and functionality.
Sometimes photographers reach a certain level of success and they feel the need to have that extra level of support that only a photographer’s agent can provide. When that time comes, our Find Agents page is a great place to start that search.
At Wonderful Machine, we divide all the people and companies in our industry into 5 categories: Clients, Photographers, Crew, Agents, and Resources. In our massive effort to reimagine, redesign, and rebuild our website, our Find Resources page is the last step in our data migration process.
With most photographer directories, your location is static. There is at least one directory that I know of that allows you to update your current location in real-time, which is nice. But we have taken that idea one step further by allowing our photographers to update their Travel Plans to show any number of locations into the future.
Finding clients is one of the biggest challenges commercial photographers face. At Wonderful Machine, we’ve been cultivating relationships with publications, agencies, and brands for over 15 years.
We recently heard from some photographers who got emails from an editor claiming to be Jack Moss from anothermag.com. “Jack” asked the photographers to produce a fashion shoot. Predictably, some details did not quite add up and, one after the other, the photographers started forwarding these emails to us.
Spurred by the protests over the killing of George Floyd by police, we decided to focus this week’s open house on racial injustice in America and what it means for creatives.
Photographer Mary Beth Koeth is featured this week in a discussion about self-assigned projects, covering both her projects “Off-Season Santas” and “Porn Moms.”