The mistake was not setting expectations from the start. You thought you were giving her a good deal (and you were - you were at under 100 Euro per hour) and she thought she was going to be working with an unpaid amateur.

I didn’t see the first post, but I looked at it just now and given the value here I’d advise asking your real estate attorney whether the contract covers this…

Fuji X 35/1.4. It’s magic.

If it’s important enough to you, ask other insurance companies. Mine (Amica - I don’t think they’re in all states) will accept a receipt for a used gear purchase and keep covering as long as I keep paying.

For non pros you can usually list photo gear on your homeowners or renters insurance for not much money.

Open minds are great and when you’re starting out you hate to turn down business, but I think most or all of these guys are perverts. Dudes who ask young women to take photos of their junk are thinking about sex, whether it’s some faulty “if I get her alone with my junk she’ll want to have sex” logic or just enjoying having women look at their junk.

(Source: I’m a dude.)

You should 100% feel free to accept or decline this stuff.

This has always been a controversy. When I had that project in my first photography class I punked out by shooting subjects from being at a distance and it made me so conflicted I didn’t make any more street photos until I was in my 30s. Then I got over it on a trip to nyc and started getting some good stuff.

Street photography in public is legal in most places and most photographers won’t say there’s anything wrong with it, but I’d suggest a “don’t be an asshole” approach. If you’ve seen videos of that Japanese photographer whose name I can’t remember, who runs (literally running) right up to people and takes a shot a foot from their face then runs away… maybe that’s not for you. If somebody seems upset or tries to hide their face, maybe don’t take their photo.

I don’t see why not, so long as davehersberg.com doesn’t do business in your area (which would open you to complaints for common law service mark infringement and unfair competition).

So, without more information it’s hard to assess this specific situation, and anyone who says otherwise is not a lawyer.

What are you trying to protect, and how important is it to you? If you want to pay a lawyer $300/hour or more to get to the bottom of it, that’s certainly your right. So is bulk registering your photos as unpublished, sending them a letter saying you do not give them a license to use your photos, and making a demand if they do. But that’s more likely to net you some bad PR than a payday, and it doesn’t sound like you were ever in it for the money. It sounds like you want an outlet for your frustration with this person. We hear you and sympathize, and agree that the other guy is a jerk.

It’s probably not worth picking a fight. You’re the adult now, and the other person is a high school kid you don’t really know, so the best advice I can give you is to be the bigger person and let it go.