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  • I’ve noticed something similar, but from a different angle.

    I’ve been sorting though and tagging 15 years worth of photography ever since getting my NAS, and I’m noticing so many instances when I first started where I was so excited that I got something tricky in-focus, I didn’t notice the composition was awful, the lighting was bland, the image told no stories, etc. I was just happy to have a picture of a thing.

    I also had cheaper gear, but I wanted sharper, clearer pictures so I over-sharpened the crap out of everything and abused that clarity slider.

    At the time, I honestly didn’t see it and thought I was doing good work, but now it’s all I can notice when I see those old images.


  • From the photographer’s point of view, we’ve all had that client from hell that demands endless changes and revisions. But we’ve also had times where we’ve just had an off day, or we’ve mis-read what the client asked for, or the printers made an error. It happens.

    I usually have a ‘3 edits’ clause in a contract. If you’re not happy with the images and want changes made, I’ll do that for you, twice. After that, there is an additional cost for further edits.

    I have that in my contract because the photographer I was assisting for when I started had the same clause in her contracts, and she was way better at the business side than I.


  • I found a lot of the early drill assignments in my high school photography class were really effective. I still find myself coming back to some of those lessons.

    1. Lock yourself in the bathroom with a 50mm and don’t leave until you’ve taken 100 shots. - teaching how to work the scene, find something interesting in the mundane and the everyday.

    2. Photograph the alphabet. - learn to see how things can look like other things, shooting with intention, learning about observing the world for how it can be made to look, not for how it is.

    3. Photograph a series of symmetrical shots, asymmetrical shots, pure texture shots, silhouette shots. - learn to make your photo about one primary element. Is it about shape? light? subject? texture? pick only one and run with it.

    4. Tell a story with a photo. - I always sucked at this one. But this makes a picture worth looking at instead of being some stock photo.

    number 5 probably doesn’t matter so much any more, but: Push your T-max 400 to 1600 to open up a new world of low-light shooting.


  • kyleclements@alien.topBtoPhotographyWedding Pricing
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    $100/hour was the bare minimum I’d charge for just a shoot, no edits, no prints, and that was 15 years ago before inflation got crazy.

    Eg. 8 hour event, charge $800, shoot 800 photos, deliver 80 files. Light edits (lightroom/capture one) cost extra. Heavy edits (photoshop) cost a lot extra. Prints cost extra. Anything more than 3 revisions costs extra.

    Just the cost of printing + album would cost about what this job is paying. Don’t walk, run from this one.