paul stenquist wrote: >On Nov 30, 2010, at 9:46 PM, John Sessoms wrote: > >> From: paul stenquist >> >>> The ASMP is a scam. The dues are $335 a year, for which one gets >>> basically nothing, other than unrealistic price scales and advice. >>> Been there, done that. >> >> You may not think it's worth the money, but that doesn't make it a scam. > >Most of the working pros I know consider it a scam. I don't think any of the >NY Times photographers are ASMP members.
I agree that its membership is overpriced, but ASMP does some very worthwhile things. Their copyright education materials, available free even to non-members, are excellent (http://asmp.org/content/registration-counts) and their "DP Bestflow" workflow and archiving initiative - sponsored by the Library of Congress should be required reading for all pros and anyone who has any notion of possibly going pro (http://www.dpbestflow.org/) and that's also free. But $335 per year for general membership is a bit much. I can't even justify the $225 annual fee for "Affiliate" membership that I could get as someone who teaches this stuff. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
