Barry, my take on this is that there is a budget for what they want to do. They then try to figure out a way to keep more of the budget for themselves and other things where the people involved are not so gullible as to do their work for free. They figure that they can probably find a photographer who will go for $0 so there you go. David, please be assured that I am not including you here, I am just speaking generally. Except for the occasional charity I have not given anything away. Well, I did allow this photo to be used for the cover of an Australian university's mathematics conference publication's cover:bfitzgerald wrote:Sorry I don't buy the "we have no budget" angle on this it makes no sense. Yet they have the money to pay for printing and I imagine advertising revenue. Not saying you have to charge top rates but I would refuse to release any image without some kind of payment. I've heard this exposure angle before and it's not convincing at all...this ain't "Time magazine" then I might accept it!
Someone contacted me after seeing it on my website and explained that the keynote speaker was a mathematician from a university in Japan so they wanted something from Japan on the cover. Later they sent me a very nicely printed 1/2 inch thick magazine size publication with a thick paper cover. My cover photo was full bleed, color, and was done very well and inside were a bunch of incomprehensible to me papers on mathematics.
Of course, I carefully prepared the file before sending it to them.Thanks. I told them I would not give it to them to use for free. Yes, it is the principle because even if they were to pay I don't expect to make much money off it.bfitzgerald wrote: BTW nice image but I would suggest not caving in on this one even a gesture fee would help just on principle alone.