Comments on: DSLRU Lessons Learned http://joshanon.com/blog/2011/09/06/dslru_lessons_learned Photography and Legos Fri, 18 May 2012 16:55:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: John Ricard http://joshanon.com/blog/2011/09/06/dslru_lessons_learned/comment-page-1#comment-210 John Ricard Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:17:50 +0000 http://joshanon.com/blog/?p=151#comment-210 I was one of the instructors on the site and I really liked the concept. I have a ton a ton of free videos on You Tube and I've given away a lot of free information there. When Josh approached me about being part of DSLRU and making money off my content I was willing to give the idea a shot. However it was exactly the sort of chicken and egg situation for me that Josh wrote about in his blog. Since I was now charging for content, I felt the videos needed to be more professional than what I had done in the past. While I would often shoot a You Tube clip in one day whenever I had some downtime from a shoot, for DSLRU I was actually scheduling time and booking a model to to shoot a video for the site. It took me about 5 hours to shoot the Beauty Dish video and when it was done I didn't like it much. I then spent another 5 hours reshooting the video. Then I edited together the best moments from both videos. I probably spent over 24 hours in total preparing, shooting and editing that video. Without a guarantee of payment, it was hard for me to justify spending such a large amount of time making a video. So after making only 2 or 3 videos, I stopped submitting content to the site. Josh was great to deal with and always gave me good feedback on the videos I submitted. Also, the contract I signed with the site was very fair and ensured that I retained ownership of anything I created. I'm sure his next endeavor will be more successful and I appreciate his candor is sharing the inside story of DSLRU. I was one of the instructors on the site and I really liked the concept. I have a ton a ton of free videos on You Tube and I’ve given away a lot of free information there. When Josh approached me about being part of DSLRU and making money off my content I was willing to give the idea a shot.

However it was exactly the sort of chicken and egg situation for me that Josh wrote about in his blog. Since I was now charging for content, I felt the videos needed to be more professional than what I had done in the past. While I would often shoot a You Tube clip in one day whenever I had some downtime from a shoot, for DSLRU I was actually scheduling time and booking a model to to shoot a video for the site. It took me about 5 hours to shoot the Beauty Dish video and when it was done I didn’t like it much. I then spent another 5 hours reshooting the video. Then I edited together the best moments from both videos. I probably spent over 24 hours in total preparing, shooting and editing that video.

Without a guarantee of payment, it was hard for me to justify spending such a large amount of time making a video. So after making only 2 or 3 videos, I stopped submitting content to the site.

Josh was great to deal with and always gave me good feedback on the videos I submitted. Also, the contract I signed with the site was very fair and ensured that I retained ownership of anything I created. I’m sure his next endeavor will be more successful and I appreciate his candor is sharing the inside story of DSLRU.

]]> By: DSLRU Lessons Learned | NSLog(); http://joshanon.com/blog/2011/09/06/dslru_lessons_learned/comment-page-1#comment-209 DSLRU Lessons Learned | NSLog(); Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:31:23 +0000 http://joshanon.com/blog/?p=151#comment-209 [...] has a nice writeup on why DSLRU failed. The site and all of the code and intellectual property behind it remains available for a [...] [...] has a nice writeup on why DSLRU failed. The site and all of the code and intellectual property behind it remains available for a [...]

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