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Am I the Jerk?

Entitled Client thinks he can "PAY ME IN EXPOSURE" for my Photography

Am I the Jerk?

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Society & Culture, Relationships

4.82.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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0:00.0

An entitled jerk demands that I give a photo shoot for free, despite the fact that this

0:04.7

would normally cost me $900 and after trying to negotiate a higher price, just so I can

0:10.6

get my money's worth.

0:12.1

This entitled jerk freaks out on me and calls me some terrible names.

0:16.1

Here's what happened.

0:17.1

So I'm an amateur photographer that photographs events for a couple hundred bucks since I still

0:21.9

am a student.

0:22.9

One of my friends suggested a person who was looking for a photographer for his sister's

0:27.6

baby shower in Austin, Texas, which is about 4 and a half hours away from me.

0:31.8

I contacted this guy, we'll call him Jack, that's not his real name, asking if he was

0:36.0

still looking for a photographer.

0:37.7

He said yes and asked me for a quote, I said I usually charge $100 an hour, with about

0:42.6

20 to 25 pictures an hour, along with edits, but since it would be a 6 hour event, with

0:47.9

several dance performances, skits and games, a 9 hour drive 2 and from this event, plus

0:53.3

accommodations, since it will be pretty late to drive back, and the fact that he needs

0:57.6

a videographer along with me as a photographer, as he doesn't want me to go back and forth,

1:02.3

I ended up asking for about 150 an hour.

1:05.0

So the grand total for this event would be about $900, and this would include everything

1:09.3

that I mentioned above.

1:10.6

He asked me if I was a professional photographer, and I told him not exactly, but I have been

1:15.0

doing this for 6 years, and I am pretty good at editing pictures.

1:18.4

I sent him my portfolio of both raw and edited pictures, which takes by the way a minimum

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