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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Why do so many people feel entitled to free photos? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Practical-Ad6198@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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Not only have I been a victim of someone editing out my watermark and not paying for the package but I’ve been seeing people ask for Santa photos for cheaper than $20?

Why is this normal ? I don’t understand how someone can want a professional photographer with exspensive equipment and high quality skill to take time out their schedule to not only shoot the photos but edit and proof them. If that’s not worth at least $50 then why not just get creative with that iPhone you dropped $1k on ?

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[–] canaduh12568910@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People will ask for anything… this will never stop. Prepare yourself with either a canned denial response, or a block & forget.

[–] lopidatra@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

You also have to remember that there are a limitless number of people who have a camera and some skill who will do it as a favour or for the cudos of being published etc that either don't charge or only charge a token amount. This drives overall prices down because even when someone is prepared to pay a photographer the rates they can charge are forced down. You charge what? well theres this guy who's nearly but not quite as good or experienced than you doing it for half. He's doing it for half because his competition is the brides niece who did a photography course as school and is really artistic. Not to mention that if its an event and one person lucks out and takes a great photo with their phone, suddenly they are better than the pro who churned out several hundred photos and missed the one because they had to shoot something else.