Foto-Biz — Quotes
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Can you upload the photos again on my site? I think they are fading…
— Guilty party to remain anonymous.
Anonymous Guilty Party: read more →
Always ask for the order and when the customer says yes, stop talking.
Ask For The Order: read more →
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
— The world famous: Anonymous
Can you take criticism?
Photography is a mixture of technology, science and art.
- The technology is always developing. There's always something new just around the corner that will help you make / take better photos. Since we are at the beginning of the digital photography, every couple of years something really revolutionary comes up, then it's absorbed by all the other camera manufacturers.
Can You Take Criticism?: read more →
CNN Trade Secrets
Here are CNN's "trade secrets" to take great photos so you will be published by CNN. This is a summary, the full document is available as a PDF at: CNN Trade Secrets. The same "trade secrets" are also at: CNN Trade Secrets with the "trade secrets" to shooting great videos and recording great audio:
CNN Trade Secrets: read more →
Focus on those things you do better than others.
Comparative Advantage: read more →
Customer Service
On 11-Nov-2008 Grover Sanschagrin did an interview of Craig Mitchelldyer at Photoshelter. The interview is available at: My Nose, Your Business.
How do you deal with people who want to cut corners to save money:
I just don't think it will turn out the way you want, if we do that.
Important emails that contain no error will develop errors while passing through the Internet.
— by the world famous: Anonymous
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
An expert is someone who as made all the possible mistakes in a very narrow field of study.
— Niels Bohr
Get sales up, and keep expenses down. The goal is get revenues moving and to keep expenses from rising at the same rate so that margins expand.
— Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management
The goal in all negotiating is simple: to give up your shirt but to keep your pants. Negotiating to your advantage without making the opposite party feel like he lost his pants as well as his Skivvies is something like walking with oversized shoes through a minefield.
— Marc McCutcheon: "Damn! Why didn't I write that?"
Give Up Your Shirt: read more →
Too often, these days, we forget a simple truth: the Internet is a means of delivery, not a source.
— Mort Rosenblum, former editor of the International Herald Tribune
Internet: Delivery vs. Source: read more →
Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.
— The world famous: Anonymous
The best way to lower risk is to specialize.
— Zhang Xin of Soho China
Experience is what causes you to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
— The world famous: Anonymous
We're going to have to do more with less.
— The world famous Anonymous
If your pictures are not good enough, you're not close enough.
— Robert Capa
To say that a photo is nothing but pixels is like saying a Shakespearean play is nothing but words.
— the world famous: Anonymous
A high-paying job comes in only after you have committed to a low-paying rush job.
— The world famous: Anonymous
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!
— Ted Grant
Service Department
Here's another great one from What The Duck. It's hard to resist and I'm too weak to even try.
Attach:what-the-duck-service-department.png Δ|The Service Department According to What The Duck
The Service Department According to What The Duck: read more →
This camera takes nice pictures
Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.
This camera takes nice pictures: read more →
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
— Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
We don't like their sound: read more →
Here is something to remember for the rest of your life: Don't spend time on things you can't control. Instead spend your time thinking about what you can.
— Ben Selekman professor at Harvard Business School.
What You Can Control: read more →
Foto-Biz was mentioned by New Media Photographer in the article: New media photographer podcast #25 on 1-Dec-2008
New Media photographer Award given this week to Syv Ritch of www.Foto-Biz.com for his excellent blog on the business of photography. He offers great insight and experience.
New Media Photographer: read more →
Foto-Biz was mentioned by 1001 Noisy Cameras in the article: The Marvericks on 29-Oct-2008
There are hundreds (if not thousands) blogs about the photography business and the business of photography, but very few have the unique style and approach of Foto-Biz.com. A spartan but cutting style that gets straight to the point, as if each word costs dearly and has to be used judiciously.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
Can you upload the photos again on my site? I think they are fading…
— Guilty party to remain anonymous.
Anonymous Guilty Party: read more →
Always ask for the order and when the customer says yes, stop talking.
Ask For The Order: read more →
You don't take a photograph. You ask, quietly, to borrow it.
— The world famous: Anonymous
Can you take criticism?
Photography is a mixture of technology, science and art.
- The technology is always developing. There's always something new just around the corner that will help you make / take better photos. Since we are at the beginning of the digital photography, every couple of years something really revolutionary comes up, then it's absorbed by all the other camera manufacturers.
Can You Take Criticism?: read more →
CNN Trade Secrets
Here are CNN's "trade secrets" to take great photos so you will be published by CNN. This is a summary, the full document is available as a PDF at: CNN Trade Secrets. The same "trade secrets" are also at: CNN Trade Secrets with the "trade secrets" to shooting great videos and recording great audio:
CNN Trade Secrets: read more →
Focus on those things you do better than others.
Comparative Advantage: read more →
Customer Service
On 11-Nov-2008 Grover Sanschagrin did an interview of Craig Mitchelldyer at Photoshelter. The interview is available at: My Nose, Your Business.
How do you deal with people who want to cut corners to save money:
I just don't think it will turn out the way you want, if we do that.
Important emails that contain no error will develop errors while passing through the Internet.
— by the world famous: Anonymous
What people want is the extra, the emotional bonus they get when they buy something they love.
An expert is someone who as made all the possible mistakes in a very narrow field of study.
— Niels Bohr
Get sales up, and keep expenses down. The goal is get revenues moving and to keep expenses from rising at the same rate so that margins expand.
— Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management
The goal in all negotiating is simple: to give up your shirt but to keep your pants. Negotiating to your advantage without making the opposite party feel like he lost his pants as well as his Skivvies is something like walking with oversized shoes through a minefield.
— Marc McCutcheon: "Damn! Why didn't I write that?"
Give Up Your Shirt: read more →
Too often, these days, we forget a simple truth: the Internet is a means of delivery, not a source.
— Mort Rosenblum, former editor of the International Herald Tribune
Internet: Delivery vs. Source: read more →
Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.
— The world famous: Anonymous
The best way to lower risk is to specialize.
— Zhang Xin of Soho China
Experience is what causes you to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
— The world famous: Anonymous
We're going to have to do more with less.
— The world famous Anonymous
If your pictures are not good enough, you're not close enough.
— Robert Capa
To say that a photo is nothing but pixels is like saying a Shakespearean play is nothing but words.
— the world famous: Anonymous
A high-paying job comes in only after you have committed to a low-paying rush job.
— The world famous: Anonymous
When you photograph people in color you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls!
— Ted Grant
Service Department
Here's another great one from What The Duck. It's hard to resist and I'm too weak to even try.
Attach:what-the-duck-service-department.png Δ|The Service Department According to What The Duck
The Service Department According to What The Duck: read more →
This camera takes nice pictures
Saying a camera takes nice pictures is like saying a guitar plays nice melodies.
This camera takes nice pictures: read more →
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
— Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
We don't like their sound: read more →
Here is something to remember for the rest of your life: Don't spend time on things you can't control. Instead spend your time thinking about what you can.
— Ben Selekman professor at Harvard Business School.
What You Can Control: read more →
Foto-Biz was mentioned by New Media Photographer in the article: New media photographer podcast #25 on 1-Dec-2008
New Media photographer Award given this week to Syv Ritch of www.Foto-Biz.com for his excellent blog on the business of photography. He offers great insight and experience.
New Media Photographer: read more →
Foto-Biz was mentioned by 1001 Noisy Cameras in the article: The Marvericks on 29-Oct-2008
There are hundreds (if not thousands) blogs about the photography business and the business of photography, but very few have the unique style and approach of Foto-Biz.com. A spartan but cutting style that gets straight to the point, as if each word costs dearly and has to be used judiciously.
