Don’t Give Your Work Away
Expolitation requires two parties: the one lying on the barrel and the one standing over them. Probably best not to willingly lie on the barrel.
Yesterday I was approached by the BBC, they wanted to use this image as part of a story they were doing on the weather in the South East of the UK.
©2016 Photo: Dave Nash
Of course I said yes and said my rate would be £75 for the usage (I wasn’t sure on what to charge, so I checked with some professional photographers what the rate was. They all said between £75 and £90, so I went in at the lower end of the scale). This was the reply I got…
Those two words keep showing up these days, “No Budget”. Really no budget to pay people for their work! So a multi-million pound company like the BBC has no budget to pay people? I find that rather hard to believe, in fact I find it offensive that they have the nerve to ask people. They are not a…
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