goodguy
Been spending a lot of time on here!
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A guy contacts me on facebook asking me about Nikon D3300 if its a good beginners camera and if its good enough to shoot weddings.
I ask the guy what are most essential things to shoot a wedding, he was right with few things but he didn't mention experience (even thought eventually got what I was waiting to hear).
He doesn't even know the basic.
Nice guy don't get me wrong but he represented for me what is wrong today with modern photography.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry feels he or she are ready to shoot weddings because they got a t3 or D3300 or even a 5D IV for their birthday.
They will work nearly for free just to get clients and get experience and the poor saps that know about photography about same as these so called photographers will pay little and feel they got a good deal and get crappy results of their one very special day in their life.
I get people asking me for quotes for weddings and other events and my prices are really not high and I get the same reply "its expensive".
No professional can compete with 20$ an hour, its ridiculous and infuriating.
I shot years as an amateur getting slowly better and more serious and when I decided I want to get even more serious I volunteers working for free for well over 6 months doing lots of weddings and other events as second or main shooter under the supervision of a very good mentor.
If I buy a set of Japanese or German chef knife set does that mean I am ready to be hired as a chef in a high end restaurant ?
I ask the guy what are most essential things to shoot a wedding, he was right with few things but he didn't mention experience (even thought eventually got what I was waiting to hear).
He doesn't even know the basic.
Nice guy don't get me wrong but he represented for me what is wrong today with modern photography.
Every Tom, Dick and Harry feels he or she are ready to shoot weddings because they got a t3 or D3300 or even a 5D IV for their birthday.
They will work nearly for free just to get clients and get experience and the poor saps that know about photography about same as these so called photographers will pay little and feel they got a good deal and get crappy results of their one very special day in their life.
I get people asking me for quotes for weddings and other events and my prices are really not high and I get the same reply "its expensive".
No professional can compete with 20$ an hour, its ridiculous and infuriating.
I shot years as an amateur getting slowly better and more serious and when I decided I want to get even more serious I volunteers working for free for well over 6 months doing lots of weddings and other events as second or main shooter under the supervision of a very good mentor.
If I buy a set of Japanese or German chef knife set does that mean I am ready to be hired as a chef in a high end restaurant ?