14 Photographers Who Had To Deal With Such Entitled Clients, I'm Trying To Keep My Composure
Hi friends! My name is Amatullah and outside of being a writer, I'm also a photographer. Over the years, I have had to deal with A LOT of people trying to get me to shoot for them for ✨free✨
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"I can't pay you but it'll be a nice addition to your portfolio!"
Many people think "all you have to do is press a button, right?" and truly believe in their little non-photographer hearts that exposure is enough. Here are 14 of those people:
1. "I don't know how to compensate your time." Um, money would be nice!
2. If only reach paid the bills.
Owns multiple concert venues with multi million dollar sound systems, but doesn’t have a budget for a photographer at their new venue. from ChoosingBeggars
3. You'd think as a photographer yourself, you'd know how compensating photographers work.
4. Right because all photographers want to add to their portfolio for free.
My local golf course thought this was an acceptable request from our area’s photo/video professionals page, for that sweet sweet exposure. from ChoosingBeggars
5. So you get offered a shoot...for free...and you STILL have demands? What's not clicking??
6. Not the client trying to pull an UNO reverse card on this photographer.
7. This influencer really wants to help out budding photographers looking to diversify their portfolio. So kind of her.
InstaCB already has a wedding photographer, but wants YOU to pay for the chance to shoot her wedding. ~For the exposure~ from ChoosingBeggars
8. For $80, I will show up with my phone and nothing more.
9. Of course I'd have no problem traveling all over the country and only be paid $30 per project...
Seeking a Travel Photographer [...] Candidate will shoot in multiple cities all over the world [...] Salary & Benefits: [Peanuts] from ChoosingBeggars
10. All of this for 9 pounds an hour? Sign me up!
For £9 an hour you must have a car, drive wherever we want you to, be available whenever we need you for extensive photographic and video work including editing... no thanks! from ChoosingBeggars
11. It's almost as if, I don't know, photography is a skill that deserves payment?
12. "Girl you are out of your mind for trying to make a photographer copy someone else's style and pay less than their asking price! 💋 Sorry to offend!"
Bride wants my photographer friend to learn another photographer's "style" AND basically give her a discount for a wedding that's in a couple of weeks from ChoosingBeggars
