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Free is Killing Me!

For the photographer shooting on spec means: Spending your time to travel, photograph, edit, submit (and all other activities related) to delivering submitted images. In addition to this it also invloves self financing all of your camera equipment, automobile expense, insurance, camera repair (and all other photography expenses).

By Matt Brown
Stop working for free!

Next time you're in the local hardware store, ask the salesman to give you free tools and tell him in return you will tell all your friends you got your tools from his hardware store.

Or try it at the grocery store. I can see it now, standing at the check at line: "That will be $102.85, sir."

"You don't know me but I will tell everyone I know to shop at Ralph's if I can just get my groceries for free". "

Sure Mr. Brown nobody knows about us yet, here's your food and have a nice day!"

Sweet!

Can you send me a photo? Can I get a photo for free? We will give you credit for the photo!

How many times have you heard that?

Free! Free! Free!

I've had CBS.com, Wilson Sporting Goods Global Marketing, Fox Sports, ESPN.com, ABC, CBS, Fox, Rivals.com, Baseball America, college websites and yes, newspapers, magazines, all ask for FREE photos. Some are even willing to give me photo credit.

Wow! Give me photo credit for a photo I created!

So these companies can take it and make money from a product I provided free. Yes, money. The bottom line here is money. Give me your photos for free and I can post them on their company website or run it in a publication... what a concept!

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(Matt Brown is a freelance photographer based in Southern California. You can see his work at his SportsShooter.com member page: http://www.sportsshooter.com/mattb and at his personal website: http://www.mattbrownphoto.com/. He is also the co-director of the Sports Shooter Academy.)

Anatomy of a Flip

 

Random Photos Slideshow

Random photos from the 2008 GT300. These include wierd crops, slightly soft but still interesting, tight crops, small file sizes, good for the web but not suitable for printing

GT300 Compilation Video

A highly compressed compilation of video clips taken at the GT300 in 2008

Helping hands in the surf

Broken rudder less than 1 minute in

You can almost see the exact minute Team Chums broke their left rudder less than one minute into the 300 mile endurance race. Repairs where made on the beach and they were off again after a 17 minute pitstop.