A case for CAPIC
(It's been a year of membership for me. I have had a few calls from beling listed with them. I am very jealous of the events held down in TO. I only wish we'd get our shit together here in Winnipeg and get enough members to host some events.)
This from an editorial on Headshot Rentals in Toronto:
Are you a CAPIC member? If not, why not?
Not to be too melodramatic, but your world is not the same as it was 10, or even 5 years ago, and in case you haven't noticed, much of what has changed can be traced directly back to digital. The day was when your thorough understanding of one or two main types of film and a couple of types of Polaroid could allow you to envision the results of a shoot as you stood over the set. What you needed was a good assistant, a great lab, a client with a sense of the value you presented, and the skill to make it all look easy. What you did on Monday was not much more technically different than what you did on Friday, and your world was pretty neat and tuck.
Then along comes digital, slowly at first, but now at a pace that you can't ignore, and those same clients want more than they used to, in less time, for less money, and you're now the lab, spending hours in front of a monitor editing and processing files! Sound like a dilemma? It does to many, many photographers, and they don't know where to turn for help with how to invoice, what they are expected to know, how to keep from working yourself into an early grave, and their recollection of CAPIC is that of an organization looking to hold bake sales and retirement parties.
News flash; the CAPIC of 2005 is the resource many of you need to have on your side. If nothing else (and there really is a lot to CAPIC), the seminars and events that are put on are well planned, relevant to todays issues, in venues that are inviting and relaxing, and the information is absolutely invaluable. For the minimal fees that are collected for membership and attendance at events, if you did nothing more than make a new acquaintance with another photographer in the same boat as you, and you can each share information and learn something, the value is obvious. In these days of doing lots of extra work for the same dollar, invest a few hard earned dollars in yourself, and join CAPIC. You will never regret it.
"
This from an editorial on Headshot Rentals in Toronto:
Are you a CAPIC member? If not, why not?
Not to be too melodramatic, but your world is not the same as it was 10, or even 5 years ago, and in case you haven't noticed, much of what has changed can be traced directly back to digital. The day was when your thorough understanding of one or two main types of film and a couple of types of Polaroid could allow you to envision the results of a shoot as you stood over the set. What you needed was a good assistant, a great lab, a client with a sense of the value you presented, and the skill to make it all look easy. What you did on Monday was not much more technically different than what you did on Friday, and your world was pretty neat and tuck.
Then along comes digital, slowly at first, but now at a pace that you can't ignore, and those same clients want more than they used to, in less time, for less money, and you're now the lab, spending hours in front of a monitor editing and processing files! Sound like a dilemma? It does to many, many photographers, and they don't know where to turn for help with how to invoice, what they are expected to know, how to keep from working yourself into an early grave, and their recollection of CAPIC is that of an organization looking to hold bake sales and retirement parties.
News flash; the CAPIC of 2005 is the resource many of you need to have on your side. If nothing else (and there really is a lot to CAPIC), the seminars and events that are put on are well planned, relevant to todays issues, in venues that are inviting and relaxing, and the information is absolutely invaluable. For the minimal fees that are collected for membership and attendance at events, if you did nothing more than make a new acquaintance with another photographer in the same boat as you, and you can each share information and learn something, the value is obvious. In these days of doing lots of extra work for the same dollar, invest a few hard earned dollars in yourself, and join CAPIC. You will never regret it.
"
posted by Ian at
Thursday, November 17, 2005
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