Last year I got to shoot my first national campaign for Absolut Vodka, it was an incredible, life-changing, experience. Late last year I received an email that, at first, I thought was spam. It was from someone I had never met before asking me to shoot a campaign. This was not a contact, this was not a colleague, not even a friend-of-a-friend, but rather a total stranger. Now I did the usual check for scams: Are they paying me in advance? No. Do they expect me to pay their crew from my pay? No. Is the agency legitimate? Yes.