Going to respectfully disagree with you on this one. As someone who shoots event photos, in some cases photos are capable of being much more interesting. Sometimes a show is going slowly, or there aren’t a lot of people there. A good event photographer can still work with this and make the event look like it was amazing, but a video wouldn’t be able to hide that as much.

I have never taken a photo class, but I will say that collaborating with other artists can be a very rewarding experience if you need to shake things up a bit.

Nooooo way. They get a sample board of the images shot, and once the client receives their edits it is their responsibility to save them. Make sure it states that in your contracts. I only hold onto photos that I love & want to share on socials or my portfolio- or turn into prints.

It’s a matter of personal preference if you want to archive all of your past photos for personal use.

Personally, the longer I have done this for work the less clutter I want to deal with. I shoot a lot of film & I do hold onto physical negatives from some shoots, but I don’t have that same sort of attachment to my digital work. All of this is to say, it’s really just up to you 😅 you’ll figure it out as you go.