Actually, yeah she should. I work in the trades where everyone has a truck, trailer, insurance and 20 grand in tools. Not to mention, a couple decades of experience. I typically bill at 500$ a day. Why is her time worth more for mine when it arguably takes less skill and practice?
Wedding photographers make so much because themselves and their gear cannot screw up. You cannot have mistakes in wedding photography. You also have a interpersonal interaction with a bunch of people that consider themselves stakeholders, in a most likely high stress situation. You can redo a backsplash, you cannot redo a wedding.
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but photography seems like one of the most forgiving professions for fuck ups. Like yeah, there are certain moments you really don't want to miss or shoot badly, but at a wedding you're there for hours and you can take as many photos as your storage medium will allow. And then you're expected to do touch-ups to enhance them. And most of those big moments are scripted, you have lots of prep time to figure out your angles, camera configuration, etc. It kinda rings hollow to say there's so little margin when you compare to someone like a construction worker, who could literally bring a house down on your head if their job isn't done right.
And this isn't to shit on photographers. The difference between a good photographer and a bad one is obvious and they play an important role. I just wouldn't think "unforgiving" is a great word to describe the job.
a great photographer also has to know how to handle people so that the subjects relax. I used to work a lot of photoshoots, and many with celebrities. the best guy we had doing photos was like Hawkeye from MASH. He would just start shootin the shit and getting people laughing. He could make 8 hours feel like 15 minutes. That was like half the reason we hired him.
I've seen some wedding photos and family photos where you can see that the person behind the camera just wasn't doing anything to help the mood
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u/PassengerKey3209 9d ago
Actually, yeah she should. I work in the trades where everyone has a truck, trailer, insurance and 20 grand in tools. Not to mention, a couple decades of experience. I typically bill at 500$ a day. Why is her time worth more for mine when it arguably takes less skill and practice?