My camera cost nowhere near $5000, and I’d gladly take $100-300 per shoot with it.
business is business
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Etterra@discuss.online 1 month ago
But are you a professional photographer who makes a living off it?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
I could be if enough people paid me for it.
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Photography has gotten out of control, my wife just got charged $1,500 for a house shoot and video for a real estate listing, same person charged less then a 1k a few months ago
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Why doesn’t your wife learn how to do it, then?
Polisheocket@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
When you’re doing higher end listings it’s frowned upon, makes you seem cheap.
richardwallass@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
A pro is not a hobbyist. That make all the difference. It take years to handle photography
Ajen@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Next time, see what a local camera shop would charge to rent some equipment so you can do the shoot yourself. It’ll probably be less than $75 to rent the gear for a day. It takes a lot of experience to be a good photographer, so you’re paying for their time and expertise, not their equipment. Modern cameras do a lot of the work for you, so you might be happy doing it yourself. On the other hand, for something like a wedding I would hire a pro if there’s room in the budget.
darntootin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
What do you mean charged? You negotiate rate beforehand. No one wants to shoot your real estate shit, so you pay more. If it’s too high, hire someone that has no experience that won’t survive on their rates. Good lord, people.
darntootin@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This comment section sucks lol I don’t even know where to begin.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This place is getting more Reddity every day.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 month ago
skill isnt bought
honesthenery@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
A car is needed for all in the USA. A Camera is not. The uber driver has two jobs while the photographer also has two jobs. My mind is blown. Couples please share your shots so I can take dumps. Maybe you like dumps. It is what it is. Enjoy your slop you little piggies.
SethDove@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I work in disability. The act of driving is not considered a skill. Photography is.
chunk6235@piefed.social 1 month ago
Boo fucking hoo, that camera is paid for after 17-50 jobs depending on cost. Get fucked Nat, hope you drop it while whining about job prices .
MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If you can afford a 40k car why tf would you be driving for uber though?
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Idk ask the guys driving teslas for uber.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I mean if I did that, I could justify it as a business expense, meaning I pay 40k for the 40k car instead of paying 80k for it (income tax + social security contribution + other small payroll taxes on both employee and employer side + VAT).
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 1 month ago
She’s probably mad AI can take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional and I no longer need her
I wouldn’t mind paying someone like her if it was reasonable. It’s not reasonable, so I don’t hire her. I still need photos though. AI can do it for free? OK.
doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
No, “AI” can’t “take a shitty photo I took myself with my phone and make it look professional”. It can maybe make it look less shit, to an untrained eye.
Getting decent shots taken by someone who knows what they’re doing (regardless of gear, even) is absolutely not the same thing. And that’s before you get to all the environmental and ethics issues around it, so it certainly isn’t “free”.
I mean, you do you, and if auto-tweaked snapshots serve your purpose, more power to you. But don’t think for a second that you’ve made a photographer superfluous. You weren’t her (or any photographer’s) target group to begin with.
VelvetPinkOtter123@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It can
I don’t run a nature magazine, AI will do just fine for my Azure profile picture
snoons@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Natalie is dumb because you can just rent the expensive camera for $100 to $300 dollars a day while not being a conceited, capitalist pos.
Actually it’s prolly cheaper than that.
honesthenery@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
All of your silly little lives are hobbies. Peasants… fuck your wedding hahahaha. Stupid idiots don’t get it. It eventually will. I Quit… Here’s Why the Technician Shortage Is Getting Worse
kamen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t disagree with the notion, but phrased like this it’s kind of like trolling/clickbait - getting people to engage regardless of what they’re saying.
Digit@lemmy.today 1 month ago
this is fine, in that first glance, and then you think about it for a moment…
so much more going on in the maths, in what’s presented, and beyond,
utterly confounding the point it sets out to make.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Teleobjectctive for photoshoot?
doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
A not too long one, for portraits, say 86 to 135mm, and a fast one at that? Absolutely.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I think we paid like 2500 for our wedding photographer. Worth it I guess they were pretty good photos, and because she was one of the well known ones we were local celebrities for the day.
HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
I have known people have entire weddings for less than that
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I’m factoring in the cost of her helicopter seat aswell. Overall we spent 10k including the cottage we stayed at for the week. I’m still paying it off 🤣
we flew to a tiny little island off the coast far away from anyone and anything. One that doesn’t even have a name but is just included in a group of rocky islands. The backdrop puts Hawaii to shame. We did the ceremony there with waves breaking in the background on another island, legit looked like they were a hundred feet high. We then flew to a Jurassic park lookin waterfall and legit had a JP moment landing on this tiny bit of gravel with the tail over the water. We got some amazing photos.
content_educator_94@thelemmy.club 1 month ago
Just cause you wasted money on unnecessarily expensive equipment doesn’t mean anyone owes you fucking anything lol
It is a hobby
Get over yourself
Unless you are paying your bills with your fucking pictures
I absolutely consider photography an art form bit the amount of "photographers” who are absolutely thrilled with the smell of their own farts, taking black and white pictures of like a fucking chair on their porch and acting like it belongs in The Lourve is insufferable
Learn to paint or draw for fucks sake, you’re not special for picking the easiest way to make art, blowing a shitload of money on the camera and then whining no one wants to help subsidize your “passion”