Uber effectively corner a market and have drivers working for very little.
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the prices they charge and the inability to give me the damn RAWs is why I just got a camera instead.
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.
Is the weight of the $5000 camera how she got the permanent kink in her neck?
Partially, but it's the £5000 camera in combination with the additional kit a £5000 camera owner carries around with them, like putting a tripod bag and a spare lenses bag on the same shoulder.
When I used to film pornography I got sloppy seconds.
It was the definition of win/win.
A man after my own heart. Plus, dinner and a show.
tbf I doubt many Uber drivers actually profit, especially the ones driving $40k cars
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She wants her investment repaid in 2 or 3 gigs?
Taxes, assistant fee, mileage, you own more than one lens and one cam body…no lol not even close. We haven’t even talked about post processing, delivery, rights, etc.
She should've mentioned that instead of just listing a single piece of equipment
It’s probably fake. Don’t take image macros/memes too seriously ;)
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My camera cost nowhere near $5000, and I'd gladly take $100-300 per shoot with it. Hell, I'll even develop the film for you since it ain't a digital camera.
But are you a professional photographer who makes a living off it?
I could be if enough people paid me for it.
I've also taken courses on photography to know how to shoot a good looking photo. It's also where I learned how to develop film. These classes cost me nothing, I might add.
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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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.
Wedding photographer is an interesting job. With a lot of jobs, people buy the minimum viable equipment they need to get the job done.
But, people who get into wedding photography seem to generally be people who are really into photography. Rather than a $5000 camera being the requirement for the job. The $5000 camera is a present you can justify getting yourself if the wedding photography game is going well.
It's not a tool that goes into the case and stays there until the next wedding. It's something to be used for the kinds of pictures that don't pay the bills but that you love taking: nature shots, architecture, abstract art, gritty realism, etc.
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I don't really understand photography. Like it seems too broad of an art form. Like the guy who takes pictures of food is different from action photography is different from a wedding photographer. I feel like I don't have the context to know she's full of shit, but it kinda feels like it.
Good photographers are actually pretty rare and - in my experience - treat the field of capturing visual information as a science, but since the advent of consumer DSLR and mirrorless systems, modern-day digital cameras with nearly instant automatically-focusing lenses that utilize a grid array and intelligence models to smartly maintain clarity on what is most likely a subject as it moves in 3D space, have made it so much harder to fuck things up that it essentially has opened the floodgates of photography so that there's an endless sea of morons thinking that buying a $5000 Canon with a full-frame sensor and a lens the size of a Stanley thermos makes them Ansel Adams.
It's the same with any field where the bar to entry gets suddenly lowered. The market becomes immediately flooded with new "experts" because the tools evolve to the point that they become nearly idiot-proof. Think Claude vibe coders calling themselves programmers / software engineers, Gemini prompters calling themselves visual designers, and people on SoundCloud uploading jingles they farted out on SUNO calling themselves musicians.
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Not every gig is gonna earn you the cost of that camera. And it doesn't need to.
skill isnt bought
Twelve bucks? That's ... Probably not a livable wage with cost of operating a vehicle. Let's assume you do four of those in an hour for 8 hours, that's 32 jobs a day, grossing 8 hours a day for $384/day and just under 100k/y... But you have overhead. You have to pay for the vehicle and it's operating and insurance costs, and your own operating costs and insurance. If you live in any sort of American wider metro, 100k alone isn't cutting it.
So let's say you drive 6 miles per $12 on average. Operating a new car for a business is about $0.76/mile, so you subtract $4.56 of your $12 right off the bat, leaving you with $7.44/job.
That doesn't include accidents or your tax, either. Let's assume you get in one medium accident a year and you have minimal insurance. You pay out of pocket for your own repairs glhf.
Now you also pay 15.3% tax on your earnings because you aren't an employee and Uber says to go fuck yourself. So on your 100k a year, you pay another $15,275 in tax.
That leaves you $46,625/year, driving full time.
If you bought the car on a loan, you make negative money.
If you get in an accident, you make negative money.
For full time.
Enjoy.
Good luck eating or paying 36k a year for an apartment.
Uber drivers I take to tell me that even if you make money driving, you lose it all in the wear and tear on your vehicle when you sell it.
if you buy a vehicle in bad condition for really cheap you can sell it in worse condition for as much
We all lose money in the wear and tear in our vehicle we we sell it, though.
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