What have you traded your pics for?

[mjs1973]

Only in Wisconsin can you get paid for a photo with CHEESE! I received 2 pounds of extra sharp chedder cheese yesterday for a 6x9 print that I gave to one of my girlfriends coworkers. She refers to it as here "Happy Place" photo.

So what's the stragest/oddest thing you have traded your services for?

[megan]

Hm, I can't talk about that on a family forum
Just kidding... sort of.
I've traded photos for other photos, paintings, and cd's. (Cd's that the person I was trading with did.)

Megan

[almo]

I traded an 8x10 print for a tripod a few months ago.

This is the photo:

[mjs1973]

Well, I was just paid for a photo editing job I did with a quart of B-B-Q sauce

The owner of the photo asked some people I know from work to edit an old photo he had. They don't have much exp. with PS yet, so they asked me to do it. It wasn't the greatest job in the world, but he was happy with it. Apperently this guy is know for his special homemade B-B-Q sauce and they always use it at the ball park in his town when they have a chicken B-B-Q. The woman who brought it to me said her husband was whining because he wanted to keep it. The guy doesn't make it all the time, and wont give his recipe to anyone. I can't wait to try this stuff out.

[PhotoRon286]

Hm, I can't talk about that on a family forum
Just kidding... sort of.
I've traded photos for other photos, paintings, and cd's. (Cd's that the person I was trading with did.)

Megan

I am a huge music fan, with a primary interest in the Allman Brothers Band. The band allows audience recording, and I have a huge collection of concerts on cd. Every year they play a run of 10-15 shows over the course of three weeks at the Beacon theater in NYC. I had a person approach me about trading the cd's I had of all 14 of this years' shows for two Metz CT-60 flash units, with battery packs and chargers. He got out of the business several years ago, and the flashes were all he had left laying around. This will give me four of those units. I plan on using them for hockey action, one in each corner of the rink, triggered by slaves. Highly portable, good amount of light for making those barn-like rinks more photo friendly. Not exactly trading photos for __________, but close.

[CaSousa]

I gave a friend of mine a framed 10x15 of the Caribean, and a photo shoot of him in the city when he hooked me up with a new iBook for about $600. I think it was a pretty good deal! It's a plus that he loves the shots I took of him.

~Chris

[fotomatt]

Hm, I can't talk about that on a family forum
Just kidding... sort of.
I've traded photos for other photos, paintings, and cd's. (Cd's that the person I was trading with did.)

Megan

Too funny Megan!

I'd have to agree that I've traded for some weird stuff. :blush2:

But probably the weirdest is trading for money!

IMAGINE! Actually receiving money for your photographs!

:idea:

[fotomatt]

Hm, I can't talk about that on a family forum
Just kidding... sort of.
I've traded photos for other photos, paintings, and cd's. (Cd's that the person I was trading with did.)

Megan

Too funny Megan!

I'd have to agree ;~) that I've traded for some weird stuff.

But probably the weirdest is trading for money!

IMAGINE! Actually receiving money for your photographs!

[megan]

Money rocks! That's the best trade. Actually, some recent trades were:
-- 2 drink tickets (they just used the photo for an invitation/flyer - and it's a not-for-profit.)
-- Knitting lessons
-- A music cd (created by the person that I traded with.)

[mtbbrian]

Bike parts mostly, although I have traded a photograph or two for some "dead preisidents" as well!
Brian

[almo]

I have traded a photograph or two for some "dead preisidents" as well!
Brian

I wish I could claim that too...

[paulnj]

Friendship and Love ;)

[Franglais]

Only in Wisconsin can you get paid for a photo with CHEESE! I received 2 pounds of extra sharp chedder cheese yesterday for a 6x9 print that I gave to one of my girlfriends coworkers. She refers to it as here "Happy Place" photo.

So what's the stragest/oddest thing you have traded your services for?

Whenever I do photos at my gym because it's an open day or Halloween or something they give me an extra month membership (or more). I keep on telling them I do it for free but my membership is now running way into 2006.

When I do the photos of a wedding it is of course my wedding present to the happy couple but also a means of ensuring I get invited to the wedding feast after the ceremony..

Charles

[ken1953]

At the model T rally a few weekends ago, I traded an 8x10 of a model T and it's owners for a postcard of the Model T by itself...hahaha...is that trading down??? nah...haha
Ken

[JSPhoto]

Well I have traded photos for:
1: towing services for my vehicles
2: repairs on my vehicles
3: parts for my vehicles
4: repairs on my house (saved me $2,000 on my new roof!)

JS

[steelerdirtfreak]

Many times I have traded a couple of 8x10's for a racer's T-shirt or Sweatshirt.

I've also done like JS and traded for car repairs.

[adina]

Nothing really odd. Dead presidents mostly. But I also trade for highlights, cuts and waxing.

[mtbbrian]

But I also trade for highlights, cuts and waxing.

I guess that would be almost as good as bike parts eh!
;)
Brian

[adina]

I guess that would be almost as good as bike parts eh!
;)
Brian

Keeps me running !

[splats]

I guess that would be almost as good as bike parts eh!
;)
Brian

I got some Mt Biking DVD's, and then those Pics were used on one of the DVD's

[srobb]

Well I have traded photos for:
1: towing services for my vehicles
2: repairs on my vehicles
3: parts for my vehicles
4: repairs on my house (saved me $2,000 on my new roof!)

JS

What did you do for #4? I may need to look into having my roof done next year.

[JSPhoto]

What did you do for #4? I may need to look into having my roof done next year.

Racing photos.....it helps though I am the team photographer too. I had 4 years of photos and I gave the boss a cd with em.
Hmmm, a $2000 CD, I think I got the better end of that one!

JS

[Old Timer]

So what's the stragest/oddest thing you have traded your services for?

When I got my bill form the local dry cleaners last month there was a note on the bottom that read, "Larry, I'll trade you this months bill for a print of the Mail Pouch Barn." So I packaged up an 8x10 print and delivered it to the dry cleaners in exchage for the $26.75 bill. I think we both got a pretty good deal. The owner of the shop had seen my prints at the Covered Bridge Festival where I had a booth a couple of months ago. She collects pictures of barns. Not real strange, but I had never had it happen before.

[Asylum Steve]

So what's the stragest/oddest thing you have traded your services for?

...that bartering for products and services must still be declared on your US tax return.

Sorry to have to do this, but I'm taking names AND screenshots, just in case I need to give ole' Uncle Sam some BIGGER FISH TO FRY when, er I mean IF they turn up the heat on me this tax season...

BTW, my bartering has been mostly for lighting and studio gear; CDs and free drinks in clubs from bands I've shot, haircuts (from stylists), and yes, let me be the first to admit it, sweet, uh, shall we say, adulation from appreciative models.

Let me ASSURE you, though, anything more physical than a kiss kiss was always done in the context of a genuine, loving relationship... ;)

Hmmm, now that I think about it, perhaps that was the only thing that made some of them stay with me for as long as they did. Ya think?

[Chunk]

...so which line on a 1040 do you use to report adulation Steve?