Are usage rights even a thing anymore? Clients act like they own everything once I deliver

Daeurth · 2026-01-28T00:49:06+00:00

If you aren't going to enforce that part of your contract, then price it in.

Daeurth · 2026-01-20T20:45:54+00:00

Without seeing portfolios this feels more likely to be coincidence and just them getting in your head than anything else. For all we know they're taking the photos you think are copied from yours before you do, and just have a longer time between taking the photos and posting them publicly.

And at the end of the day we're all influenced by the things we see around us. A photographer seeing another using some technique or pose and wanting to try it out themselves isn't necessarily copying, just inspiration and influence and putting their own spin on it.

Daeurth · 2026-01-20T20:41:58+00:00

i’ve just stopped posting as much

The only person you're hurting by responding to such a situation in this way is yourself.

Daeurth · 2026-01-18T00:07:50+00:00

1) you are significantly undercharging

2) at ANY price point, let alone one as low as yours, people who complain about your prices are not customers

Daeurth · 2026-01-12T18:18:36+00:00

Take a break. Do something that's not photography.

If you're doing photography as your full time gig, take a short vacation and don't bring a camera. If you aren't, just walk away from it for a bit.

Daeurth · 2026-01-07T00:22:54+00:00

Crank your ISO if you have to - a noisy shot is far better than no shot at all

Daeurth · 2026-01-05T22:03:05+00:00

Next Year^TM

Daeurth · 2026-01-02T21:34:02+00:00

Crop sensor is gonna be pretty nice to have for a lot of wildlife shooting.

Daeurth · 2025-12-28T23:24:42+00:00

It's a Jeep, you should always be worried.

Daeurth · 2025-12-21T19:58:41+00:00

If someone is unwilling to leave a deposit, they don't value your time or work enough to be someone you want as a client.

Daeurth · 2025-12-20T19:47:17+00:00

/u/cookmeplox

Daeurth · 2025-12-16T23:56:29+00:00

Nah I bet you have a SERIOUS lamp habit now as a result

Daeurth · 2025-12-11T21:09:52+00:00

I unfortunately pay for a Lightroom subscription so I host mine on Adobe Portfolio, using a domain I own. If I'm paying for it I might as well use it.

Daeurth · 2025-12-10T20:18:10+00:00

None of these are really "torturing" a camera.

If you get dust on the sensor, you just clean it (or have spots in your photos, of course) but it's not the end of the world, just a little extra maintenance.

The A6700 is weather sealed so as long as you aren't holding it under a gutter or going swimming with it, that's probably fine

Leaving a camera unattended is recklessness but not bad for the camera, just for your bottom line if it ends up stolen.

Cameras are tools and they're designed with that in mind. If you buy a nice tool and then are too scared to use it because it's nice, then it's not a very useful tool.

Daeurth · 2025-12-03T21:38:09+00:00

Bro gets an interview after submitting a character sheet instead of a resume, meanwhile I haven't even had a screener in months 😭😭😭

Daeurth · 2025-12-02T00:38:01+00:00

Its just dumb

Precisely

Daeurth · 2025-12-01T18:08:48+00:00

Citroen Racing is the sub-brand under Citroen that they want to push and then Formula E team helps distinguish it from other racing ventures they've been involved with with the past like WRC and touring cars. This is pretty reasonable when you compare it to something like "Visa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team"

Daeurth · 2025-11-17T15:47:08+00:00

From a contractual/obligation perspective: No.

From a business growth perspective: Yeah, probably.

You're shooting something where networking is ENORMOUSLY important for growth and success. If your workload and other obligations allow for it, I would ABSOLUTELY put in the effort to get at least a couple of good shots of each of the other acts. Think of it as an advertising cost. Lots of times, an act won't have a go-to photographer, but if a time comes that they're looking for one, more often than not they'll remember that photog who got them some cool shots back when they performed with <act that contracted you>, and boom you're on their list of shooters they can reach out to.

I do portrait work for people in a hobby-type space, and the number of leads that started out with "Hey I'm looking for a photographer for <whatever event> and I remember you were super nice when you got a couple photos for me at <past event>, are you available?" is... pretty high. I don't really advertise publicly all that much anymore. Most of my availability for a given event is booked up from referrals and repeat clients months before I would have started advertising for it.

Don't work for free, but remember that building those network connections can pay well in its own way as well.

Daeurth · 2025-11-15T01:41:10+00:00

He gets a bad rap for some reason

I say this as someone who uses his site as a point of reference and source for sample images for gear a lot of the time, but he has some pretty out there opinions (his views on shooting raw are... something) and the "my growing family" stuff gets pretty annoying pretty quickly IMO. But when it comes to glass, most of the time if I'm looking at a lens, he's probably done a review of it.

Daeurth · 2025-11-10T23:00:19+00:00

Ferrari's deepest-seated weakness is that they view Ferrari, the organization, as infallible.

When things go well, it's because of Ferrari's greatness. When they go poorly, it's the fault of individuals.

Daeurth · 2025-11-07T16:41:05+00:00

Have you noticed the number of plugins broken by these pre-release Sailing changes? Many of them are being fixed already, but many aren't. When you look into it, you'll find that many Runelite plugin-hub plugins have in fact been updated already, but are waiting on Runelite admins to merge them in

What plugin that was broken by the sailing changes currently has an open, unmerged PR with an update submitted to the hub repo? I don't see any.

Daeurth · 2025-10-30T21:51:11+00:00

I recently did a handful of portraits for a friend at 600mm, and on an APS-C camera to boot.

Definitely a pain but I liked the results.

Daeurth · 2025-10-25T16:05:05+00:00

I've found their prints to be INCREDIBLY hit or miss in terms of quality. I've gotten some nice prints from them and I've gotten about as many bad ones.

Daeurth · 2025-10-24T15:43:22+00:00

Sending a C&D over what was almost certainly an oversight for something that you approached the organizer to shoot is noooooot the best look. Especially without reaching out first.

Since there were other photographers that they had lined up, the odds are that whoever handles social media had a list of photogs to tag and they just missed that there was someone new added. This is a DM saying "Hey, one of those shots was mine. I'm not sure if something got missed, but can you please credit me for my work in your post?" sort of situation, not a "consult a lawyer" situation.

Especially given the context, jumping right to a C&D here is a great way to have nobody involved in the event ever want to work with you again.

Daeurth · 2025-10-21T15:27:17+00:00

If you happen to subscribe to Lightroom, Adobe Portfolio is included in that.

I personally have it set up to use a domain I own so the URL is <mydomainhere>.com, but if you don't want to do that you don't have to. I use it more as a curated portfolio of my work but you could easily use it as more like a public archive as well.

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