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Please help me think through a possible system change. (cross post) Thanks!

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Strobist
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Re: Please help me think through a possible system change. (cross post) Thanks!
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Jon Donahue wrote:

Income sweet spot? Industrial -- see the factory, the product process, the happy workers. Corporations pay well and it is fun work. Worst? Weddings!

This needs to be highlighted. Ask any pro with more than couple of years of making a living as a photographer - they all say the above with one voice. (unless they are on youtube peddling their "amazing wedding photography course" - then weddings is the best job ever

The reason that seasoned pro photographers has an entire different pov, is probably because at weddings your dealing with (photography) amateurs that have opinions about how a pro "should do the work" , dont care or understand that you are there actually working.

On the flipside, at companies your dealing with people in their professional environment, - they know what they are doing and they know their area of expertise - and they understand that photography is a job that should be payed just like everybody else.

Far from all wedding couples understand that - heck, some think that *they* are doing you a favor by "allowing you to get online exposure, by shoot their wedding - for free".

With a client mindset like that, smile politely and walk away (heck, run away! ) to the pro side of photography: Corporate jobs.

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