Digital BW, The Print

This is not intended to start a flame war - but this is too important 
to ignore!

I am a member of EP - Editorial photographers:

http://www.editorialphoto.com

an organization for Professionals, aspiring professionals and students 
from all over the world. I have been a member of this group for more 
than 4 years. I became a member just after I became an 
artist/phootgrapher. The member count right now is more than 4,000. The 
wealth of knowledge, help and professional advice I've gotten from 
members of this group has saved - and made - me thousands of dollars.

In order to better serve it's members it is now moving off Yahoo and in 
order to do so there is a small fee - $25 for the first year if you 
join before 2005. After that is $50/year. Students/assistants can join 
for half that fee. This huge (I am ironic here) sum is obviously too 
much for some people - how that can be as for a student/assistant the 
first year cost comes to $0.034/day - that's right - 3.4 cents per day! 
After that it'll be 6.8 cents/day. For this HUGE cost you can tap into 
the combined knowledge of some of the worlds best photographers - you 
may not like the advice but it will be answers from people WHO KNOWS 
the business - and isn't that what you want? The truth - not guesses, 
right? Information that will serve you for the rest of your life

The group below is started by a particular member of EP who several 
times asked for professional advice, didn't like the advice he received 
from members - I was one of those who received an offensive, nasty and 
childish email when he didn't like it when I suggested that sharing 
copyright with models or modifying contracts without the advice of an 
attorney was not a good way to start a professional career.

And there's already posts on this forum that if followed will seriously 
erode the earning potential of anyone who follows this "advice".

There is a thread about this on EP - search for "MediaPhoto Yahoo group 
for aspiring professionals".

I suggest you read this thread before joining the group below if you 
really want Professional advice!

Christer


			Christer, AKA Christer Rosewell
"It's the artist's job to accomplish two things-to stir the emotions of 
the viewer
	  and to lay bare the soul of his subject." Jousuf Karsh
      Member EP (Editorial Photographers) - 4,000+ worldwide.
			  http://www.ChristerArt.com
		  	  3.4+ million visitors to date..


On Nov 29, 2004, at 8:21 PM, 
DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com wrote:

> Message: 1
>    Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 23:17:22 -0000
>    From: "Dean Zgoda" <eclipseagency@...>
> Subject: Join us at MEDIAPHOTO Yahoo Group
>
>
> You are invited to join us at MediaPhoto a FREE Yahoo Group for
> professional photographers, aspiring professionals, working
> photographers, assistants or students of photography to share
> business and professional information. We welcome and are grateful
> to those seasoned pros who join to mentor us in becoming
> professionals. This is a group that discusses BUSINESS ISSUES. It is
> NOT for technical, self-promotion or other discussions. This group
> will ALWAYS be FREE!
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mediaphoto/


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