Photography

1 readers

1 users here now

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.

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

communick@viewfinder.pro

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

submitted 10 months ago by Practical-Ad6198@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

60 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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 ?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SAT0725@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Photography is cheap. Everyone has a camera.

Photographers don't like to hear this -- and I say this as a photographer -- but most people are OK with reasonably shitty photos. They don't care if you want to spend an hour touching something up then charge them for it. They'd rather have something poorly framed and overexposed shot on a smartphone and get it free.

I'm lucky in that 99% of what I shoot is part of my day job, so I get paid regardless. But if people ask me for photos that I've taken at work or incidentally during a work shoot I just send them jpgs free. There are a lot of photographers like me who do that, too, which probably also hurts the market for people asking money for photos.

One recent example is I was shooting portraits for a marketing initiative at work and a passing student asked if I'd shoot his headshot for a resume or something. I had all the gear set up so I said sure. It took like 10 minutes later to edit and send him the photo, so it didn't matter much to me. But some people try to charge guys like $100 for that simple task, which is silly.