Freeloader belittles a friend's 5-year profession as a photographer, demanding they work their wedding for free to "build their portfolio," they challenge their cheap attitude with facts: ‘I charge $1,000+ per wedding’

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  • You're a photographer? So free pics for the wedding, right. SHORT So this just happened yesterday and I'm still fuming. I'm a
  • professional photographer and an acquaintance reaches out to me out of the blue and says she's getting married in two weeks and is so excited. After the usual fake small
  • talk, she says she remembered I do photography, she had seen my stuff on IG and it was super cute, so she was wondering if I would like to take their wedding pics!
  • I asked what her budget was, and she said they don't really have a budget for photos but she thought it would be a great chance for me to build my portfolio.
  • Mind you, I've been a professional photographer for 5 years, I charge $1,000+ per wedding, and my IG clearly shows over 80+ weddings I've done.
  • I politely said, Sorry, I'm already booked that weekend. I'm not, but whatever. She responds by saying she just thought since we were friends, I would be happy to help,
  • it's one day and I would get food and drinks. Then proceeded to say: Guess you're just about the money now. Kinda sad. Sad? Girl. You want me to spend 12
  • hours shooting your budgetless wedding, using thousands in gear, editing for weeks, all for a cold chicken dinner and what? From someone I barely speak to?
  • I didn't respond after that. Just blocked her. But seriously, what is with people thinking that creative work = free labor?
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  • Fluffy_Newspaper_8 I'm pred just reading this. That's your profession.
  • Radiant-Cost-235 Happens in hair all the time too :( Once a friend cancelled her 2 first time color appts with me night before (her and her friend were getting balayages together) which took a HUGE chunk out of my
  • schedule. The next morning, she texts me WITH PICTURES saying she had bought all kinds of supplies at Sally's. Her and this friend were going to do their own balayages at home, and she
  • wanted me to walk each of them through it step by step. I just didn't respond, I was so taken aback by the audacity of it all. Needless to say, they f up. ed it
  • WordsWatcher ⚫ The last time I was at Walmart getting groceries, the b'stard at the checkout wouldn't accept "exposure" and demanded money. Same at the car dealership. And the bar. What is wrong with these people? Don't they want to have a successful business?
  • shemp33 The flowers will di . The food will be eaten and digested. The drinks will pass through everyone's bodies. Literally everything else from the wedding will come and go, but the one thing... the ONE
  • THING that will remain are the photos to capture the day and preserve the legacy for future generations. And that's the part that, two weeks prior to the wedding, is neither funded (budgeted) nor booked with a professional.
  • SpikeProteinBuffy ⚫ I made a favor to a friend and photographed their band for free. It's a small band and I know they don't roll in money. Well they asked me again and I told them I'm busy for a few months so
  • sadly I don't have the time. They hired another photographer and paid that person. Ok, whatever guess they had some money and nobody was willing to do it for free. And later they asked me
  • again and I asked, do I get some payment like that another photographer. And my friend got mad at me for even asking! Apparently I was SO LUCKY to even get to photo them I shouldn't insult them by asking money.
  • Needless to say I'm not going to photograph them ever again. Not even if they would offer to pay me.
  • Fire_alarm_010622 She responds by saying she just thought since we were friends, I would be happy to help "If we were friends, I would've been invited to the wedding as a guest."
  • Agitated-Bakery717. The additional entitlement of "oh, I'm so special just screw this other couple you booked and have a contract with. SMH
  • jurassicjessc Ughhhhhh so frustrating! As a photographer, I feel this. I feel like it stems from the growing accessibility of cameras, but there definitely seems to be an increasing number of people that don't take photography seriously as a business.

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