David Hobby managed to stir up all sorts of emotional responses last week with his post on working for free1.
The comments that he received show that there are clearly groups of people who sit firmly on each side of the fence. The post generated a plethora of differing reactions from both readers and other photographer-bloggers such as Vincent Laforet and, of course, John Harrington.
Even fellow plugin-writer Jeffrey Friedl decided to rant about the rants.
I have nothing new or revolutionary to say on the subject; I feel that all the arguments, both for and against, have now been laid bear.
However I would like to react to the many people that responded with the suggestion that working for free is a good way to get a “foot in the door”. I personally don’t think it is such a good idea, so I thought I’d mention I technique that I’ve used to get my own foot in the door that isn’t so much about working for free as much as potentially working for nothing.
- Incidentally, being controversial is a great way of gaining an audience. I’ll have to think of something like that. [↩]
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