somebody called me asking for a price quote for a picture for a band, when I told him how much I charged he was like... "you charge that much just for that? Okay, I'll have to think about it. 'Click'"
I don't usually get that kind of response being that I'm still on the low end in terms of price. (Although not when it comes to quality of course.) People just don't realize how expensive it is to run a photography business. And sure, other businesses like say a manufacturing plant or whatever have vastly greater operating costs and a larger investment in terms of capital but at least they're able to make up for it in terms of quantity. With photography, one is very limited in terms of how many gigs we can take on. Not only because of the time we have to spend on site actually shooting but also, and especially, because of the insane amount of time we have to spend in post (production). This is especially true now that the digital age has forced most photographers to do much of the editing themselves.
The fact that photography is an expensive craft became quite obvious to me when I first started out several years ago. Since then, I've grown fairly accustomed to this unfortunate fact of life, and don't usually give it much thought. Lately though, I've been contemplating getting back into music. Songwriting, composing, recording, that sort of thing. And a fact of life which I had managed to deal with for the past few years became once again a very apparent thorn on my side.
I figured, okay, I spent X amount of money in photography equipment, software etc. in order to produce a professional product consistently and reliably. So I figure, okay, I should probably expect to spend about as much for my home recording studio.... more or less. WRONG!! Music is soo much cheaper. I won't go into the details but just to give you an example...
Adobe Photoshop (the industry standard for imaging professionals) - $700
ProTools (the industry standard for recording industry professionals) - $250
The price I'll eventually have to pay for a respectable recording thingamajigums is about half of what my backup photography gear cost. That's right. That's just my backup gear. Ugh. I hate spending money.
I love creating stuff though so what can you do :(











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