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02/01/2008 06:02:08 PM · #1
I am now officially a photojournalist, lol. Well, I didn't get paid for the photos, but they were technically done as part of what I get paid for (my job).

They made a collage of 7 of my shots - you can see them each separately here - //www.rpi.edu/about/inside/issue/v2n2/slideshow/space.html. For some reason, they don't have a photo credit on the website - but they do in the print version I saw it today. It's very strange because the woman in media relations who asked for the shots made sure to ask me for my name several times - specifically to give me credit.

The one I'm most proud of is #6 in that show. I didn't use a flash in any of those shots, but that one was handheld in a darkened room. (I used my tripod for the others, but it was a bit too awkward during the presentation.)
02/01/2008 06:04:52 PM · #2
If someone don't credit you, send them a bill :-o
02/01/2008 06:41:56 PM · #3
Excellent!
02/01/2008 07:29:58 PM · #4
WTG, Donna! ... Nice clear shots.
02/01/2008 08:08:38 PM · #5
Originally posted by Donna21:

...The one I'm most proud of is #6 in that show.


"-Hey look everybody... Africa is same size of my palm... yum yum.. hihihihi"
02/01/2008 09:16:57 PM · #6
If you make living on photography than you are "professsional"
I think so....: )

Good work.
02/04/2008 01:41:38 PM · #7
Well, I make my living as a librarian, not a photographer, lol. This is the first time someone outside the library has used my photos in an official sort of way. I've taken shots "for work" before, but for use on library web pages or table displays or just as a record of something (like this exhibit).
02/04/2008 01:56:46 PM · #8
"professional" photographer is more an attitude than anything else.

Adopt the attitude, and the money will follow.

The first time someone paid me for a photo, I started calling myself a professional photographer. It felt awkward for a while, but soon my brain believed it, and now the calls for my service continue to grow.

Go make a business card, put the title "professional photographer" and hand them out until your brain believes it too.

FWIW - most shots I get paid for place in the 5.x range here. Good old bread and butter photography pays a lot more than what lands on the front page on DPC.
02/04/2008 02:25:12 PM · #9
Originally posted by Donna21:

The one I'm most proud of is #6 in that show.


Is that Jason Gough?

Nice shots!

ETA: Never mind. Just went back and read the article and yes, it is Jason Gough.

Message edited by author 2008-02-04 15:24:08.
02/04/2008 02:34:34 PM · #10
Excellent work and congratulations on the publicity and the recognition!
02/04/2008 08:38:04 PM · #11
I have sold one of my photograph for US$100 of 8x12' size and done 2 group exhibitions, I think I am "professional" but I do not make living with photography but I have attitude.

But, In Nepal if you own a SLR or DSLR than you are "professional", and you have point and shoot camera but you take very good photographs you are not counted as "professional" photographers. I have used SLR and DSLR but I do not own one, so others so called "professional" photographers think I am "non-professional" photographer. Do hell with them I do what I believe.

Gaurav Dhwaj Khadka
02/06/2008 06:57:42 PM · #12
Good catch CEJ! lol I probably would not have recognized him, but I watch mostly CBS not NBC for my "news."

gaurav - yes, I understand your frustrations w/ being a "professional" or not. I went to library school (a Masters level prorgam) w/ several women from other countries. The one from China had the opposite problem to you. As a professional librarian, she bemoaned the fact that she was given no credit in China for her additional schooling and experience - anyone who worked in the library was considered a librarian.

Thanks Melethia. It has finally gotten me a little (if very little) inside recognition. I keep offering my abilities to the exhibits committee, and was pretty much brushed off (even though I'm on the committee). Between this and some shots I took for the Architecture challenge (see below), I now have the attention of an assitant archivist. I'm hoping do do a Then and Now of some campus buildings - she was planning something on a building that was recently renovated, and liked my idea of trying to take a shot from the same vantage point as the old photos.

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