Thank you Travis! Oh my god yes Scott is a endless source of knowledge, a brilliant photographer, business person and presenter! I was honoured to speak with him. Thanks for watching

He is a much needed voice in photography on KZfaq! We are lucky to have him. Thanks for watching

Me too! I agree! Love Scott! Thanks for watching

Oh my god lol 😂

Tim house studios is one I tune into regularly! So much to learn and Scott delivers it in such a concise manner. Love it!

I’m so glad to hear this lovely! Thank you so much for taking the time to listen and to comment t let us know. Thank you 🙏🏻

Th an you for watching I appreciate it and glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts here and for watching. I think it’s just a reality that some fields of photography just don’t have as much money in them as others. That’s not really something you can control. Portraits like you say is a single person forking out their money for a service so…yeah they aren’t gonna pay you thousands and thousands unless it’s a wedding or they are a celebrity. Scott made it pretty clear that it’s the bigger brands that have the money and budget to pay the big bucks and that’s because they are using that photography to make more money I.e sell their product through advertising. Whereas the everyday person isn’t… Scott opened my eyes in this interview with his statement about restaurant photography. I’m never going to get a 10k restaurant photo shoot job because it’s just not there…I may however get a 10k job shooting a campaign for a fashion brand as they have more money to spend on advertising etc. and that industry lends itself to photography and relies on it more to sell and push their products and brand awareness. If you continue shooting portraits then I guess you have to think do you want to grind it out in the hamster wheel doing many jobs for that amount of money or do you want to pivot and aim for something higher ticket so you are able to work less, or even mix the two together perhaps? I’m still learning as a professional so I find it interesting to hear others experiences. Thank you 🙏🏻

@@LucyLumen Yeah i think so , its only like the top 5 photographers in a country that get to shoot celebs that might have a bit more to spend on it. And weddings they take like 15 hours or more and often involve hundreds of images so its normal they cost the client a few thousand including a decent album. But ye 99% of portraits are made for a few hundred. I do think i will stick with doing what i love, making portraits. I have no desire to try and work for brands because of my experience with them. I have stopped trying to get into the fashion industry or fashion portraits (i did that for a while) because if you google "Why I Quit Fashion - Rachel Rebibo" and read that article you will understand why. And from my own experience with working for clothing brands (often without me knowing), they will most often just gives clothes to popular models and they try and get photographers to shoot with them for free in those clothes. and all those models get for it is some free clothes. There is no money in that at most some exposure but that does not pay any bills.

I think you're precisely wrong. Scott's whole point is that you have to be realistic about what areas of work exist for a professional photographer (as opposed to the photographer arbitrarily deciding what type of work they want to do and expecting people to line up to pay them for it) and also understanding what type of budget different business types will generally be working with. He goes so far as to state that 99.9% of professional photographers don't have an agent and that this will prevent them from getting highly paid jobs. Not sure how you managed to get this perspective from the video 😂

Thank you Brian! I’m so glad you enjoyed it

Thank you for watching! I’m glad to it felt short - it felt short to me as well tbh but I didn’t wanna take up more of Scott’s time! He is amazing and I was stoked to get the chance to chat with him.

They probably feel the same 😋