r/assholedesign

Since you have a week, any chance you could check out the venue to see what lighting looks like? To avoid distractions, I second not using flash if you can help it, at least while people are speaking.

24-70 f2.8

Either being featured in a regional magazine last year or being asked to photograph the mayor’s State of the City address.

Yep. Mostly real estate and events.

Sam Hurd in one of his podcasts said that after he shoots a wedding in a good location, he’ll go on google and upload those pictures at said location giving a 5 star rating, this way you’ll get on the radar of the owner and managers of that venue.

I love this. I’ve been wanting to get into corporate events as well and have been racking my brains for ideas. Last week, I did an event with a few keynote speakers, and got business cards of each speaker so I could email them personally. But I need to try this idea too.

And congrats OP! That’s amazing.

You’re not alone. I bought my first professional camera on Black Friday 2012. About six months later I decided to pursue photography as a profession, mainly because I started realizing just how expensive gear was. From there I immersed myself into learning as much as I could.

At the time I worked at a marketing agency and lost my job in April 2014. My initial goal was to quit in 2016 after saving up about $10,000, so being thrown into the fire prematurely was definitely rough. Lotta sleepless nights, PBJ sammiches, and overdraft fees.

If I could do things differently, I definitely would’ve left on my own terms. But part of me also knows I never would’ve pulled the trigger, so my old bosses did me a favor. As much as I struggled in the mid-2010s, it gave me a story to tell.