Re: Images Needed! Be published!

[M Tyler <mtyler@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Pan-photogs,
 Well,.... there are a lot of sides to this continuing
"discussion" -- 
 Perhaps the bottom line is that this book is NOT
Professional!? Perhaps it is just a vanity press for amature
photographers? 
 Or on the other hand, after this discussion, the book
publisher will come around and realize that you get what you
pay for: for free you get amature stuff (perhaps it is even
some good amature stuff) or on the other side, they may
realize that after looking at the amature stuff, that the
book just is not worth the effort and expense -- Remember
GIGO? Garbage In, Garbage Out!
 Or on the third hand, perhaps with a FREE editor and free
images, the publisher might be able to make a buck and the
folks who donated images will go out and buy copies. On the
slightly fairer side (not real fair) the publisher should be
paying for the professional imags and giving one copy of the
book to the photographer and giving a half dozen copies of
the book to the amatures which have quality images.
 If one looks at an overall budget for the book, it might
just be a good use of recources to pay for quality images if
they are needed for a quality book.
Marshall Tyler


Paul Aparycki wrote:
> 
> To carry the thought further, and lets' be fair about this, if the photog
> should donate his work, I think it only fair that the editor should work
> for free(!) oooh! a four letter word!, and why not the publisher? give away
> the book for free? (there's that damn four letter word again), after all it
> is good exposure, no?, why not the printer? the bookstore? the binder? and
> everybody else? GET REAL ASSHOLE . . . it costs any REAL photographer TIME
> and MONEY to produce a photograph. Those of us who ARE professional
> photographers, do this for a living . . . it is a business (and a passion),
> but neither I, nor anyone else, can keep up quality work if we give it away
> for free in desperation just to get published.
> 
> pissed off by amateurs,
> 
> yours
> 
> Paul Aparycki

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