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.
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Okay real talk here, how tf is this Xavier guy basically everywhere? Did he go to meme school?
There are loads of us ! At least two.
Does he make up content to react to? Is that his thing?
Pppffffssshhhh.... 5k?!?that is hobby level money. I'm over 15k into just my lenses and I do this as a hobby and shoot friends and family for free.
Bro... Shooting your friends and family is messed up.... Whether someone pays you to or not...
I kill people for money.. But you are my friend.. So I will kill you for free
Post a photo so we know you're legit
We demand man ass
Free the weenie!
Only 5k? Sound like a hobby, because most professional photographers have a body that is already 5k by itself, plus several lenses ranging between 2 and 20k. I mean, I'm a hobby photographer and my gear already exceeds at least 8k. So stop bitching Karen.
All of your silly little lives are hobbies. Peasants... fuck your wedding hahahaha. Stupid idiots don't get it. You eventually will. I Quit... Here's Why the Technician Shortage Is Getting Worse
Nobody is going to watch your youtube video, just type the relevant info.
Thats nearly as obnoxious as dumping AI slop into a discussion.
If people just want the uber price for pictures, hire the uber to pick you up and ask him to take a picture of you with your cellphone. Then you'll have a $12 picture that you can do whatever you want with.
the prices they charge and the inability to give me the damn RAWs is why I just got a camera instead.
Our wedding photographer gave us both RAWs and processed JPEGs
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Asked mine to give it to me RAW and it turned into a huge misunderstanding.
Ohhhh this pisses me off soooooo much. I decided to do family photos and specifically asked for the raws before I went into the shoot. They still gave me a hard time after the shoot to get the raws. They gave me a stripped down .dng without any camera settings. Ohhhh that pisses me off so much.
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Looks like a Canon?
Canon RF lenses are outrageously priced, even amongst other outrageous ILC brands, because they lock out third parties. So yeah, this lady got ripped off.
Ehh, They're more expensive, but most of them come with IS.
I'd still rather shoot Nikon.
It's not the IS that makes them expensive, it's the locked out ecosystem and the monopoly they have. I'm not saying they're not good - they are (from what I've seen), but healthy competition, if it existed, would've driven the prices down a bit.
As for IS itself, since the move to IBIS, it makes sense that some lenses drop the IS and only rely on the body's. IMO it used to matter in the DSLR days when IBIS was not really a thing. Nowadays it's sensible to only put it into the longer lenses that physically need it (the longer the lens, the more physical movement required to compensate and so on).
The APS-C lenses are awful. And the FF ones with IS, especially the zooms, have outrageous barrel distortion that crops the sensor a ton... on $2K lenses.
This is the brand new 20-50mm F/4 for instance, and its not even the worst offender. It's $1400:
The Thypoch 24-50 2.8, for comparison, on Sony E. This is $650, often less on sale:
I'm speaking as someone who mistakenly bought into Canon APS-C. I loathe it, as a hobbyist with a Canon SLR for years.
I'm selling out, as soon as I see with what Fuji/Panasonic/Sony cook up within the year.
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Nobody cares what your camera costs, Nat. You can still take shitty pictures with a $5000 camera. Charge what you think your service is worth and work for clients who pay it.
Exactly.
There is real skill involved in photography, and it takes real time even after being skilled. A 1-hour shoot in a new location still requires probably an hour of planning, maybe an hour or two of logistics, and maybe 2-3 hours of work after the fact to get the photos processed and distributed. And it's basically the opportunity cost that will eat up the entire day, because you can't double book the same sunset or other lighting conditions or whatever. There's seasonality, too, if you want specific seasonal conditions in the shot, if you want to book the Saturday that other clients want, etc.
That's before expenses like insurance, the amortized cost of the software and hardware (including the cameras and lenses and computer), web services for distribution of the files, etc.
It's fair to charge a full day's fair pay for a job like that, and that might mean wanting to charge something like $1000 for an experienced photographer, maybe $500 of which actually represents "profit" for the sole proprietor. But that only happens at that price if there are clients willing to pay that price.
For bigger jobs like parties or weddings, it gets a bit more involved, which is why a 2- or 3-shooter wedding job can cost several thousand, or even above $10k.
But for easy jobs like anything in a high volume studio where the lighting is already known, and there aren't any logistics involved, it should be much cheaper. It just all depends.
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All of your silly little lives are hobbies. Peasants... fuck your wedding hahahaha. Stupid idiots don't get it. You eventually will. I Quit... Here's Why the Technician Shortage Is Getting Worse
Advertising yourself as:
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Bad at internal budgeting
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Full of yourself
... is a bold marketing strategy during an economic depression, for a freelance/contract worker.
Best of luck Nat.
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Yeah and that Uber driver can't afford rent. Photographers often have less business in the winter, too, and they have a ton of extra equipment to lug around. I know a wedding photographer and it's a lot of work day of and post work to make sure it's all nice.
My education cost 200,000. You think I made all that back in one paycheck? Cry me a river, Natalie.
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tbf I doubt many Uber drivers actually profit, especially the ones driving $40k cars
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When I used to film pornography I got sloppy seconds.
It was the definition of win/win.
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I shoot with a refurbished $600 Canon EOS Rebel T7. I use two lenses for the majority of my work: an 18-55mm, and a 75-300mm.
Fite me irl, Nat, my shit’s gorgeous and I know it.
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