This Photograph Is Not Free
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This Photograph Is Not Free
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#2On one hand, I feel your pain. On the other hand, cost and value are not the same thing, and so aren't value and market price.
If you do something and what you do costs much more than the market value of its output, make sure it's not your job. Hobbies usually fall in this category.
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#3I guess he only uses his camera, lens and PC once and then throws them away.
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#4What utter nonsense.
> * As someone mentioned, THIS single photo didn’t cost me $6,612, but if you wanted to create it, from scratch, that is what is involved. So I consider it the replacement value if it’s stolen, or how much my lawyer will send you a bill for if it’s found being used without my permission.*
I hope he's never pirated a film or he could owe the studio millions and millions of dollars.
He should be arguing that it is expensive to take photos, and that any sales of them need to add up to cover initial and future costs. He should also be arguing that they are paying not just for the expense of taking it, but for his skill and time.
By arguing that one photo is worth that much, he is doing neither and looks like a moron.
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#5While I don't agree with the justification of the cost based on required tools to create the image. I do believe that the main value from the photograph is the user's creativity and passion for using the tools to capture the photograph.
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#6If you really go ahead and try to recreate that photo ... you must first invent the universe. And that's going to cost a lot !
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#7On one hand, I feel your pain. On the other hand, cost and value are not the same thing, and so aren't value and market price. If you do something and what you do costs much more than the market value of its output, make sure it's not your job. Hobbies usually fall in this category.
You could argue about the value and market price.
In the same way that a liquid betting market, the price is a reasonable estimate for probability, in a any liquid market, the price is a reasonable estimate of value.
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#8The photographer, John Mueller, is absolutely amazing and deserves to be paid for the art he produces. See his work here: http://www.johnbmueller.com
Regarding the value of the photo, I highly doubt he believes a single photo is worth $6,612. He is merely trying to explain that he should be paid for his work, and he has. Arguing that it is expensive to take photos wouldn't have gotten your attention. This got your attention. He won.
Edit: I have absolutely no affiliation with Mueller nor have I heard of him prior to this article, but was bothered by the negative and deliberately ignorant comments posted here. Very unlike Hacker News...
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#9I would always take the side of a photographer who has his/her photos misused/abused, but this is just illogical reasoning. If a grocery store has a loaf of bread stolen, it is not worth the value of the entire business.
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#10weird argument. Being a photographer myself, I understand they need to be properly rewarded for their creativity, effort and more importantly time.. but this is not the way to put your point. On similar lines, any thing you are buying day to day will cost you a fortune..be it a Coffee or a candy.