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Originally Posted by rolandogomez
When this hype is misleading, in the case in point originally, then it's someone making you think certain customers are clients while that someone is using this same hype in hopes you'll become a customer.
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well, sometimes it can be a bit more complicated.
let's say i'm hired to shoot a model, i.e., by the model. (or, her company, to be exact.) let's also say the model is, herself, something of a mini-cottage-industry within a specific industry.
now let's say the reason the model hired me is because a well-known publication (for the sake of argument, let's say that publication has bunny ears in its logo.) wants to publish an editorial featuring the model and wants the model, i.e., her company, to provide specific kinds of images of her for the pictorial aspects of the editorial.
the model's people hire me to shoot the model and the images are sent to the publication's people. neither the model or her company are compensated for the images although the editorial is designed to market signature-line products the model, that is, her company, is manufacturing. that's the model's/her company's compensation.
so, the publication is the model's customer (or should that be visa versa? i'm getting confused.) anyway, the model is definitely my customer and the end result is i'm paid to shoot images that end up published in the publication. now i understand that doesn't make the publication my customer but i think i honestly deserve pretty much the same, resume-worthy, credit for my images being published in the magazine in question. and we're not talking thumbnails in a "girl next door" type of print section.