Comments on: Top 13 Ways to Piss Off a Photo Editor

By: Cartoon Pictures | Images For Licensing

Cartoon Pictures | Images For Licensing — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 21:24:11 +0000

I’ve never pissed off an editor (at least I don’t think so)….however, if they contact you first, don’t you feel you have carte blanche over the project? I normally offer images that already exist, i.e. an actual online library of cartoons. I think the worst I would hear is “your cartoons are no good” LOL! Good seeing the comparison though, to what I offer!

By: randy

randy — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:12:48 +0000

I think this is very revealing of the quality of editors nowadays. Of course everyone should be courteous and some photogs are more difficult to work with than others, but at the end of the day stop saying you’re too busy to reply emails from photogs or look for someone contacts, IT IS YOUR JOB. I love that editor of essence magazine who pesters against photogs who don’t reply to her calls and then says:”DO NOT continue to call me and leave messages on my voicemail, If I don’t answer, you know why!”, like if you were a little girl and you can’t face photographers?…totally unprofessional, if that’s the case then maybe you shouldn’t be a photo editor. Or the guy from Wired.com who could not pass the contact info of his colleague at the magazine, I’ve been a photo editor, this is your job mate, you should always be on the lookout for new talents, don’t let your ego get in the way of that. The rates aren’t great nowadays, editors shouldn’t really be the ones complaining, at the end of the day, they get their salaries every months sitting comfortably all day sipping lattes using the creativity and hard work of someone else they’ll try to squeeze as much as possible for as little money as possible.

By: squbg

squbg — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 14:44:41 +0000

good article unfortunately i think you are preaching to the choir.

By: Maria Xenofontos

Maria Xenofontos — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:53:45 +0000

Give respect and take respect!

By: Phil Soheili

Phil Soheili — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:55:29 +0000

You might add: 14) Crop heads. Don’t do it under no circumstances. Cheers, Phil

By: AndyL

AndyL — Wed, 12 May 2010 14:07:53 +0000

JoeM, sounds like you have a lot of experience. :) I can add a few: 1) Expect me to return you calls 24/7 when the story is hot, and then fail to return even a courtesy email when your Managing Editor decides its yesterday’s news. 2) Fail to give guidelines about what you need, and then complain when what I give you something else. 3) Send me to photograph a story for which a key element is no longer possible to get., ie assignment impossible.

By: CAM

CAM — Sat, 08 May 2010 17:01:23 +0000

Picture Editors – PLEASE don’t rename your files and then ask a photographer to find a file for a rush order. Many of you ask for integrity in captions and metadata but ignore the principle and change a file name. You then expect a photographer to find an image in their file based upon your new name for the image. Think about it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 05 May 2010 19:45:09 +0000

I agree with Grover, Jim’s tricky Wired vs. Wired.com nonsense was confusing. I think WL’s suggestions were the most useful, otherwise the lists seems like a benign list of common sense in business rules and regulations. Adding to the Photographers list however… “Yes, please continue to lose my invoices at least 3 times, and NEVER pay me before 90 days. We all love that from you photo editors.”

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 05 May 2010 17:46:47 +0000

“Contact me saying you love Wired and would love to shoot for the magazine. Do your homework. I am the photo editor at Wired.com. After I tell you I am not the photo editor at the magazine, then have the gall to ask me who is.” – Jim Merithew Wow, talk about pretentious Jim, trust me you’re not that important and will likely be replaced by a robot or monkey soon anyway. We have to constantly attempt to contact hundreds of potential clients and to make such a simple mistake as to confuse you with the web version of your magazine is innocent. I mean seriously who do you think you are? Get over yourself. “Make it difficult for me to get in touch with you, like not having your contact info on the front page of your website.” – Jim Merithew Wow again Jim! How difficult is it for anyone to find the right people to contact at Wired? Is it on your front page of the website? Do you lack the capacity to click on the contact or info link on a photographer’s site?

By: amajchrowicz

amajchrowicz — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:58:23 +0000

Unfortunately directing them to Photoshelter to access and or download images has been an embarrassing one for me. Some editors I work with are frustrated with the site not being as user friendly as it should be. I ended up making my own set of instructions to send people who have trouble.