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To: benwood who wrote (51069)	1/23/2006 8:26:49 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) of 110194

Most of the increase is due to the fact that my job has become far more productive, it has incorporated three to four other jobs into it through the use of computer/software technology. I'm no faster at processing each image than I was in 1979 but I do a lot more to them. I was pretty damned fast back then since I got paid by the print, if anything I'm a little slower due to age. The photographic image I create as an end product now can be immediately plugged into an electronic document whereas the old photographic print on paper had many more steps after it left me, all requiring trained professionals and lots of additional time. Now the raw image comes to me in digital form, I do my thing, which isn't all that different (except for the tools which are radically different) than what I did previously. Then I incorporate batch processing using the computer to do things I never had to do before. The computer can do what 30 seasoned techs could do the old way in the same time. I certainly don't capture all that gain, but a lot of it. In the end the only way to really increase income is to produce more. The newbie working for my client/studiomate (a guy I first worked for in 1979) in our studio makes about half what I do (around 3.5 times what I made starting out), but he works half as fast and I wind up getting a lot of his work to do over (so my client pays for it twice). He's not nearly as good or as fast as I was at his age, I think my client barely breaks even on his work whereas I was a serious profit center back when I started out working for him.

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