Product Description

"Best Business Practices for Photographers" covers the essential business topics that professional photographers need to know in order to succeed. It does not focus on taking pictures, starting a photography business, or selling photography, but rather explains how photographers can meet important business objectives. Instead, it covers the focal points of best practices - best practices in interacting with clients, best practices in negotiating contracts and licenses, best practices in business operations. This book provides a roadmap for successfully navigating these, and many other issues, facing photographers today.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #399993 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

It's good but it's American
The book's stated aim is to be a helpful guide for the professional photographer improving his or her business. I found it a useful guide on all matters that are not specifically American. To be specific 19 of the 26 chapters can be read and applied in the UK as they cover issues such as negotiations with a client, setting out contracts for services, making a profit and hiring staff. I will keep my copy on the reference shelf on the strength of these chapters.

The remaining seven chapters need to be read with caution. It is vital in business to know about income tax, insurance and copyright but it is of no direct use to a UK business to undertand the American system. You need to supplement this book with something that covers PAYE and National Insurance, VAT and (most importantly) the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. I suggest you try "Beyond the Lens" published by the Association of Photographers (AOP). Their book has a strong overlap with this one but with a UK pedigree.

It's all we have and it's all good info...
Even though it is based at the American audience; this book is a helpful guide for the professional photographer, and many of these rules can be applied in the UK, in fact where ever you live; this is a useful manual and should be on your reading list, as the previous reviewer states "I will keep my copy on the reference shelf".

In my mind, this is a reader and a keeper.