Still don’t understand how photographers are doing this

My rates for shooting top models are £200 per hour and bring home cooked food with you!  🤣

Timmee said

My rates for shooting top models are £200 per hour and bring home cooked food with you!  🤣

Grab the discount before he withdraws it folks. 😉😀

Timmee

You are just throwing your talent away.

Probably on the photographs also.

Timmee I make a mean chicken/lamb ruby Murray and with the lights turn out would make a top model same rates for me ?

londonjohn said

Timmee I make a mean chicken/lamb ruby Murray and with the lights turn out would make a top model same rates for me ?

You get TFP rates, coffee, cake, & beer for Togs' collaboration and curry. 🤣

Photowallah said

PARKES said

I suspect that these photographers are either putting up aspirational rates on the basis of ignorance of the market, or perhaps so they can appear professional to new models and seem generous when they ‘reduce’ their rates to TFP? 

The internet is full of chancers who post things of £1 value at £100 asking price and hope even one mug falls for it.

True enough :) 

Timmee said

londonjohn said

Timmee I make a mean chicken/lamb ruby Murray and with the lights turn out would make a top model same rates for me ?

You get TFP rates, coffee, cake, & beer for Togs' collaboration and curry. 🤣

just putting me frock on be on my way soon :)

Putting rates up and getting paid are two entirely different things, particularly for photographers on modelling sites and the ones getting paid probably aren't getting much or any pay from models, their income will lie elsewhere. 

If getting paid is your primary motivation seeking it here may not be the best option. 

Timmee said

My rates for shooting top models are £200 per hour and bring home cooked food with you!  🤣

Well over the top. I am only charging £199 p.h. - but if more than four hours, will bring it down to £198

Bergman Greenstreet far from a spoof account my few references would tell you that

Everly Rose said

Rob Stanley muly local band has paid me to shoot them many times so I guess it's networking and making freinds I tries really hard abd they offered me to do it I wouldn't say it's a dead market I know many gig photographers

I'm pleased that you have found a band willing to pay for your services.  However such bands are few and far between and it will not provide you with a self supporting sustainable income no matter how much you network.

The simple fact is that the gig photography landscape has changed dramatically over the last 5 years and nobody wants to pay for something that they can get for free either voluntarily or via a rights grab.

Unfocussed Mike said

playwithlight said

The bar to being a professional photographer that makes a living from photography is set very very high..

In some sectors - in others, I scratch my head that ' some' are getting regular work!

You don't have to look that far on here to see full time ' pros' that haven't even got the basics nailed. 

Rich Heckklr

In the part of the market we operated in it was very rare that the photographer or cinematographer didnt know what they were doing budgets were simply too big to take that risk.

playwithlight I imagine so. I meant grafting commercial photographers / events/ family portraits etc

Rob Stanley said

Everly Rose said

Rob Stanley muly local band has paid me to shoot them many times so I guess it's networking and making freinds I tries really hard abd they offered me to do it I wouldn't say it's a dead market I know many gig photographers

I'm pleased that you have found a band willing to pay for your services.  However such bands are few and far between and it will not provide you with a self supporting sustainable income no matter how much you network.

The simple fact is that the gig photography landscape has changed dramatically over the last 5 years and nobody wants to pay for something that they can get for free either voluntarily or via a rights grab.

I should of added I also work in travel 4 days a weel model and run events , the events is where we make anything if anything, even sometimes you break even if you have late cancelations.

We run lighting workshops (myself and owen) teaching creative lighting methods and model days but my local band are pretty loyal so always give me first refusal.

Theres lots of options to try but you need expereince and its hard bloody work doing events and such