Truphotos » miscellaneous http://www.truphotos.com Photography by Weizhong Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Reasons Why Professional Photographers Cannot Work for Free http://www.truphotos.com/2012/02/04/reasons-why-professional-photographers-cannot-work-for-free/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reasons-why-professional-photographers-cannot-work-for-free http://www.truphotos.com/2012/02/04/reasons-why-professional-photographers-cannot-work-for-free/#comments Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:16 +0000 Truphotos http://www.truphotos.com/?p=2382 An in-depth article written to explain the reasons why photographers cannot work for free. This is in response to the commonly seen situation where photographers are regularly approached, not for work, but for free images.

Summarised into the following points:

If images are given out for free, photographers will not be able to make [...] Share on Facebook Retweet this Share with Addthis ]]> http://www.truphotos.com/2012/02/04/reasons-why-professional-photographers-cannot-work-for-free/feed/ 0 Why are wedding photographers so expensive?! http://www.truphotos.com/2012/01/30/why-are-wedding-photographers-so-expensive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-are-wedding-photographers-so-expensive http://www.truphotos.com/2012/01/30/why-are-wedding-photographers-so-expensive/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:37:20 +0000 Truphotos http://www.truphotos.com/?p=2376 Have you ever wondered why wedding photographers are so expensive? Aren’t all they do is bring a large and expensive camera to the venue and press some 1000 times on the shutter button? It’s just too easy for them to charge $3000 for a one-day wedding when all they do is hang out there and [...] Share on Facebook Retweet this Share with Addthis ]]> http://www.truphotos.com/2012/01/30/why-are-wedding-photographers-so-expensive/feed/ 2 “Exposure” won’t buy you shit http://www.truphotos.com/2012/01/13/exposure-wont-buy-you-shit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=exposure-wont-buy-you-shit http://www.truphotos.com/2012/01/13/exposure-wont-buy-you-shit/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:46:07 +0000 Truphotos http://www.truphotos.com/?p=2266 Here is an short and interesting article about how some organisations try to get free images from hardworking and deserving photographers by enticing them with some “exposure” to their 10,000 clients and customer base.

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I recall reading about this online, does it mean that your clients can forgo paying water and electricity bills [...] Share on Facebook Retweet this Share with Addthis ]]> http://www.truphotos.com/2012/01/13/exposure-wont-buy-you-shit/feed/ 0 Processing and posting of Bhutan images http://www.truphotos.com/2011/12/12/processing-and-posting-of-bhutan-images/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=processing-and-posting-of-bhutan-images http://www.truphotos.com/2011/12/12/processing-and-posting-of-bhutan-images/#comments Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:32:12 +0000 Truphotos http://www.truphotos.com/?p=2177 I will currently processing and editing images from my Bhutan trip as much as I can. Normally, quite a lot of time is spent on each image for the selection, adjustments of white balance, colour, cropping etc, but I will post each of them as I finish, like what is being done for the past [...] Share on Facebook Retweet this Share with Addthis ]]> http://www.truphotos.com/2011/12/12/processing-and-posting-of-bhutan-images/feed/ 0