From: Doug Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
William Robb wrote:
>>> > Moot anyway - they don't hire photographers.
>
>
> Photographers are too hard to train. They always think they have a
> better way (which they do), and they tend to be loose cannons in the
> studio.
>
> William Robb
Speaking as veteran of the portrait mills, and a guy who used to make
his living training these people, I did hire "photographers." But I
prefered not to, because too many people who think of themselves as
photographers are anything but, having only a pocket full of bad habits
and an indifferent attitude toward learning useful techniques.
It was usually too difficult and time-consuming to retrain the bad
habits out of them, but sometimes it was worth it, if I could see some
willingness to accept instruction.
I think you're both missing a couple of key points.
1. This company essentially has a monopoly dealing with school SYSTEMS &
the in-store studios. My only alternative is to set up my own studio as
an independent, with all the investment involved in order to compete
with an established franchise.
Note, I'm talking school SYSTEMS - 156 public schools under one contract
in just one county. And likely an equal number of private schools,
although they're not consolidated under one contract.
That's at the low dollar end, where that original "Portrait software"
would let you make those annual "school photo" packages.
I can also attempt to break into the market against the established high
end independents, but that's a different thread - "seniors" is more akin
to wedding photography; in fact, it's kind of the intro to wedding
photography, because that's who they're going to think of first when
it's time to start looking; whoever took their "seniors".
So, anyway, there's pretty low probability I'm going to break into the
annual school photo market with my two camera bodies, various equipment
and $90 software package for creating various photo packages.
And as to working for the franchise ...
2. There simply is no retraining involved. Period.
I already understand the fundamentals; they only have to tell me once
"this is how we do it", and I would do it THAT WAY - no argument.
But their company policy is not to even consider me.
So I'm back to square one.
I did get an answer back from the six-pack photo or whoever it was ...
on saving the layouts.
The template basically creates an Internet Explorer web-page you can
export to the printer, but after you've dropped the images into the
template, you can save the finished layout as an MS Word document with
embedded images.
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