The service, called Image Connect, will use Canon’s RAISE photo community platform to connect customers with professional photographers. The process will go as follows, according to Canon:
Through the platform, customers can provide basic details for the job, such as event type, location, and date
Once photographers are matched with the customer through the platform, customers review photographer profiles and invite those they like to bid on the job
Photographers create an offer which allows them to set their own price (rather than adhering to standardized pricing) and allows them to communicate their rates and value to customers
Once an offer is accepted, the job is booked through the platform
Following the event, images are delivered electronically to the customers through a Canon customer portal
The service will be brand agnostic, so even if you’re not a Canon shooter, you’ll still be able to use the service. The service is expected to go live in a limited number of markets starting in Q1 2020. At the time of launch, the service will be limited to residents of the following states: Connecticut, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas.
There’s no word yet on whether Image Connect will be available outside the United States. We have contact Canon for clarification and will update this article accordingly when we hear back.
A bit off topic but this approach would work pretty with other services like in Health Care. It is the ideal free market, capitalist solution to lower Medical and Medicine cost in the USA (currently highest in the world and growing). Except, there is no f*ing way the AMA union or Pharma cartel would allow it.
Photographers should form their labor union as well. If you can't beat them, join them.
If anyone's looking to hire a photographer to shoot their travel photos, I'm available. They just need to pay for my first class airfare, 5-star hotel rooms, best meals, luxury car rentals, and buy me any gear that will be needed for the job. And since it wouldn't be right to not charge them anything, I'm willing to accept $0.01 as payment.
Canon needs to worry more about creating a better sensor that anything else.
After the 5D came out most of my jobs were re-shoots in that the client had hired a GWC, scheduled the location, prepped the location, paid the GWC then had to look for a photographer who could deliver images that could actually be used.
Another vehicle to dis-empower the photographer ...... why not have 2 services, one where the employers bid on photographers and one where photographers bid on jobs?
The simple answer is that is not how both power and our values flow ......
An interesting question is how Canon is going to block the majority of desperate photographers who will sell themselves for 1 cent because they cannot bid lower ..... oh wait that is part of the design.......
Is it really working like this? No one wants to meet the photographer first? Just click a button, choose the cheapest and done? I`m getting old I guess...
If you are starting out in retail photography, or events, this service could work well. Gotta be better than advertising on Craigslist—for both photographer and client.
This concept has been used for many years for coders. In their case the host company held the payments in escrow until the customer was satisfied with the program/app and would act as arbitrator if the customers had issues.
True! I have been hiring out various jobs using a freelancer service since 2007! It works just as you stated.. Post a project, get tons of proposals from freelancers, spend a good amount of time vetting them, award one of them the project, pay a escrow payment, when job is done to my satisfaction release the escrow! It has really opened up the world wide marketplace for me. I have nothing but positive things to say about those services! The talent that is out in the world is astonishing, then add in the fact that the cost of living and economics is a lot different in other places in the world as compared to America, I am able to realize bigger profits.. These types of services can be life changing... After you do this for a while, you realize the power in being able to leverage someone else's time, then you find your self more as a "Project Manager" than a photographer.
@Justinwonnacott ... The service I have experience with is more technical behind the scenes support where as my end customer would never see... The service that Canon is introducing is a little bit different due to the fact it is customer facing.. But I do see a way I could possible work the Canon system also to leverage other photographers time as well.. For Instance... I get a contract to shoot a large event... I then put up a job posting looking to hire photographers for a event.. I then vet them and pay the escrow. When they deliver the photos, I release the escrow.. Once I have all the photos in my possession, I deliver to my client... Similar to how the Day Laborer companies work.. Which I use when I have to setup trade shows and events....
Regarding Pay & Prices.... I have always been the person looking to hire people on these types of platforms, not looking to be hired... So from my perspective pay/prices is relative.. A persons cost of living and economics dictate what a person can afford to work for..
For instance, about 7 years ago I needed a custom web application built. So I posted the project, I received proposals from $50 to $5000, and turn around times from 1 day to 1 month... Some of the proposals were from kids in High School all the way up to IT firms.. So of coarse some kid in High School can afford to charge a lot less that an IT Firm... I decided to give the job to a guy in India.. He completed the job in 24 hours and for $90 USD.. I still talk to him every now and again via Skype, he is now work at a huge web dev companies making tons of money, no way would he accept a job for $90, because his economics have changed..
There's many many factors involved with this, many. Unlike coding where the market was the World, not so with Photography where it becomes a local market. No matter, the competition is fierce! In my case, coding, I was vetted and earned the right of a bonfide player. I can't imagine how they vet the photographers. I worked for a small company with a stellar reputation where most coders were ligit and capable. Bottom line is it will be very competitive and most likely keep real pros away for the most part or serve as a cash flow generator, meaning little profit. If they have a rating system then that will help build a reputation but if you already have one you probably don't need this. You can see where this is going.
I hope there is a section for people looking to hire photographers for backyard squirrel pictures so that forum members can actually get some work out of this.
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