Ethics, Copyright and Sustainability

There are lots of aspects of being a working photographer that are important to your career, in this blog post I will go over the treats, advertising, copyright, ownership and my own experiencing with the industry.

Treats

• Everyone owns a phone which can take better quality photos than most cameras.

• The amount of non-professional photographers.

• Those non-professional photographers not charging for shoots, making clients not wanting to pay for our work.

• Management teams don’t hire photographers anymore

Advertising

• Plenty of emails

• Business cards

• Sweets

• Moo print

• Helloprints

• Websites

• Word of mouth

• Shooting for free – experience

Copyright

Copyright is the owner ship of my own images, therefore prohibiting anyone else using or selling my photos. For a company, I could give them a time frame for when they are allowed to use my images (normally from 4 weeks to 2 years)

• Rights to my own images

• Article 27, Human rights act

Ownership

• Contracts (email, printed out)

• Verbal contracts

• Follow up all contracts

• Send terms and conditions

My own experience

Being a young, in-experienced live music photographer, it is hard to be taken serious for a photographer. I know many other photographers who do not charge for taking photos, this damages photographers like myself who are trying to make am living.