My business partner and I went into a partnership with his photography business he started that mainly focused on nightlife photography (bars, nightclubs, etc) and we branch into private functions like birthday parties, engagement parties, corporate functions. We’ve made it so we have around 4 photographers that we rotate on a weekly basis to go around 8 different venues with an hour at each take photos, edit them and deliver to us. We pay them their rate and we get paid via the businesses we take photos at. We also try and win the private function leads that I’ll either do or book one of our photographers in for it. I make sure that all our photographers get the mentoring and coaching free of charge when required but this has been a pretty cool little niche way of making passive income (I work part time in a retail job during the week) but hopefully with a bit more work being put into the business it can become more of a full time thing.
Events Photographer here, lots of nightlife stuff but also private functions like birthday, engagement parties, corporate events, weddings.
Pet peeve for nightlife, is when people straight up make getting their photo a big deal to not get a photo. When theres a group of 3 or 4 girls, I asked them for a photo for the venue, one of them will say no and the others will want a photo, but she doesn’t move out of the way. I am fairly directive because I have a job to do and need to get paid so I tell her to jog on.
Private function wise, is when guests straight up just refuse to have their photo taken - you have been invited by the host, the host wants photos of you, if you don’t want a photo taken, then you should leave.
I know I’m being pretty harsh but as Taylor Swift once said “you need to calm down”