Comments on: Some Basic Etiquette. http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/ "A fashion picture is a portrait, just as a portrait is a fashion picture." - Irving Penn Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:13:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 by: Ben Hider http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-2011 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:02:09 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-2011 Always good to hear that common manners are still important. Always good to hear that common manners are still important.

]]> by: Max http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1994 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:28:33 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1994 Yes also remember that when you get an agent that it will take forever to get paid, there's always a problem with the accounting department, the check that your own clients used to pay in a month now it take 3 months at best.......but why? Shouldn't agent protect you and help you? Most of the time you have to do everything yourself....and they take % from your own clients that help you pay the rent... Yes also remember that when you get an agent that it will take forever to get paid, there’s always a problem with the accounting department, the check that your own clients used to pay in a month now it take 3 months at best…….but why? Shouldn’t agent protect you and help you?
Most of the time you have to do everything yourself….and they take % from your own clients that help you pay the rent…

]]> by: Kristiina http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1993 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 16:02:19 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1993 @7 - exactly. This just happened to me the other day. An agent sent over someone that wanted to work on my team. He was very very late, so late that I left my studio. Came back to meet him since I hadn't gone far, he offered a BS excuse and then proceeded to tear down several good friends of mine in the industry. Then he told me he had no passion for what he does and is planning to quit. Uh, ok. Why did you waste all of our time? Needless to say, I had nothing great to report back to his rep. The sad part is his book was really good! @7 - exactly.

This just happened to me the other day. An agent sent over someone that wanted to work on my team. He was very very late, so late that I left my studio. Came back to meet him since I hadn’t gone far, he offered a BS excuse and then proceeded to tear down several good friends of mine in the industry. Then he told me he had no passion for what he does and is planning to quit.

Uh, ok. Why did you waste all of our time? Needless to say, I had nothing great to report back to his rep. The sad part is his book was really good!

]]> by: dude http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1989 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:37:18 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1989 Duh. It's basic professionalism. Same goes for behavior toward a potential client - if you can't be on time to an appointment, how can I expect you to be on time to a shoot? I have several other people on my list who I can offer the job to who WON'T make me look bad in front of my client. And as @6 points out, always assume you're in the "first room" (read How to Lose Friends and Alienate People to get the reference). Duh. It’s basic professionalism.

Same goes for behavior toward a potential client - if you can’t be on time to an appointment, how can I expect you to be on time to a shoot? I have several other people on my list who I can offer the job to who WON’T make me look bad in front of my client.

And as @6 points out, always assume you’re in the “first room” (read How to Lose Friends and Alienate People to get the reference).

]]> by: AA http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1970 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:55:41 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1970 AVS, as an agent in an entirely different photography sector, I can confirm the experience.. one I will never forget: (at a fair) "what, you don't have free wifi access? can I use your PC then? here is my website, I'll just go and get myself a coffee and let you have a look...." I did not look very seriously at this photographer's work... AVS, as an agent in an entirely different photography sector, I can confirm the experience.. one I will never forget: (at a fair) “what, you don’t have free wifi access? can I use your PC then? here is my website, I’ll just go and get myself a coffee and let you have a look….”

I did not look very seriously at this photographer’s work…

]]> by: Edmund Fladung http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1967 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:01:42 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1967 "Hey man, like, I don't know you n' stuff, but like, can I get an appointment?" [joke] “Hey man, like, I don’t know you n’ stuff, but like, can I get an appointment?”

[joke]

]]> by: avs http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1965 Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:25:31 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1965 No, this isn't news. But the mind boggles sometimes at the lack of basic decency. And it makes one re-think favours for others which is a shame. In the second case, moreover the work was horrid. No, this isn’t news. But the mind boggles sometimes at the lack of basic decency. And it makes one re-think favours for others which is a shame.

In the second case, moreover the work was horrid.

]]> by: stpiduko http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1964 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:53:59 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1964 Just don't be late and if you are, bring a bottle of whiskey Just don’t be late

and if you are, bring a bottle of whiskey

]]> by: Jono Fisher http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1962 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:23:09 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1962 Wow! Maybe the "aspiring professionals" has a rockstar photographer as a role model. All I can say is: ¡Malcreado! Wow! Maybe the “aspiring professionals” has a rockstar photographer as a role model. All I can say is: ¡Malcreado!

]]> by: ed nixon http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1960 Thu, 28 Feb 2008 18:33:52 +0000 http://www.avisualsociety.com/2008/02/28/some-basic-etiquette/#comment-1960 Surely things have not devolved to the extent that this advice is going to be news!? I can think of saying this in the general 'be polite' speech to my 14-year-old son, maybe my 17-year-old son (and I'd be berating myself for a failure as a parent), but... really? For (aspiring) professionals? And we wonder why the business is the way it is. ...edN Surely things have not devolved to the extent that this advice is going to be news!? I can think of saying this in the general ‘be polite’ speech to my 14-year-old son, maybe my 17-year-old son (and I’d be berating myself for a failure as a parent), but… really? For (aspiring) professionals? And we wonder why the business is the way it is.

…edN

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