Avoid these MISTAKES to be a PRO PHOTOGRAPHER in 2024
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- čas přidán 29. 07. 2024
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In this video, I'm sharing with you some advice that will help you avoid the mistakes that many pro photographers make. By following this advice, you'll be on your way to becoming a pro photographer in 2024!
Many people aspire to be professional photographers, but many don't achieve this dream. In this video, I'm sharing with you the tips and techniques that will help you achieve this lofty goal. By following these simple tips, you'll be on your way to becoming a professional photographer in 2024!
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As a nurse and part-time photographer
I have researched the craft vigorously and for years seen all these photographers. And this man is the most real. He delivers facts that most photographers need to hear.
I am glad I came across your videos. You have been super helpful.
Thanks
Even the guy outside wants the information you are sharing with us.
Or he‘s looking for a clandestine way in to get his hands on those sweet, sweet C-stands.
3:45
Wow what a refreshing approach of clear, simple, and honest ideas. Thank you! So glad I found this channel.
You are one of the few, if the only Channel that talks about the real aspects of photography as a profession.
If you're planning a move into TV Commercials (TVC's) the technology you will need is all rentable.
In the UK (London mostly) there is an ecosystem of suppliers that will resource your TVC/Film/TV shoot that charge by the day/week/project, so there is no need to BUY any kit, especially cameras.
This gives me access to the most sophisticated & expensive equipment, like motion control robots, or high speed tracking vehicles for example, without any cost to myself.
I've been in the film/TV business for nearly 40 years & the last camera (Arri 2c) I personally bought was in 1993 & it was 20 years old then.
My $0.02
Only just stumbled upon you’re channel and I’m glad I did. Very informative content and delivered in a fun way. Great stuff.
You nailed it. I've been shooting for over 40-years and I can't succumb to what's required to be successful nowadays--especially lowering one's IQ. I recently saw a photo of food in a CARRY OUT container for an upstart restaurant-I'm not a food photographer, but I could do better than that. There's a mentality that "Why would I pay a professional when I can do that with my phone." Have I seen professional-quality photos that were taken with a phone? Absolutely!!!! But the owners of the very successful restaurant that I'm thinking about have a refined sophistication that's reflected in their food, menu, and building. Somewhere in there is my point that the expectation of fine photography is for the most part gone and good photographers will not only have to adjust to that fact but put price to it as well.
(BTW, I googled Sam Sulek, that's a subculture that I would've never known existed if I had done a photo expose on bodybuilders from preparation to competition.)
I needed to hear this video, thank you.
always making sense, always a good watch. all the best for the new year. cheers
I’m proud to watch you grow man!
Great info and even when there isn’t important information, it’s great to listen to 💪🏼
Great job sir
Excellent, real-world advice.
Thanks from Ottawa Canada. Happy New Year.
Ho Scott, I do love watching your videos. I am sure I am wrong about this but I see a certain dichotomy between what you say about quality of work in this video and the video about your new fuji camera.
Years ago, I had the chance to talk to Alex Bogusky, then of Crispin, Porter & Bogusky (think VW, Burger King, et al). Some of us were agonizing over the next level of medium format digital, so I asked where he thought ad campaigns were headed, with the idea being what files we would need to do future projects. This was when not many of us had 22 MP digital backs, and seriously expensive scanning gear. Surprisingly, many years ago, he said that lower resolution was the future. None of us outputting for printing really thought we would see it soon, but he was completely right. Sure, more megapixels will sell to some people, but rarely to meet some crazy printing specification. Screens, displays, and smartphones are where ad campaigns launch. Motion is important too.
Ooohhh! Commercial video! Can’t wait 😀 Happy 2024 Scott! You deserve the best. Continued success!
I'd guess 70-80% of my client base ask if I can shoot stills and motion. Sometimes complicated shoots and then I hire a crew to direct and sometimes just me switching from still mode to video mode. Like you, I enjoy the process but what I find is that clients expect to just plop motion into a stills day when most often the video shoot should be a stand alone shoot day. I have a regular commercial client and they have me shoot both print and digital and we are supplied with the crops for all the various space needs. Sometimes one shot will have 5 different crops and that requires redoing the set or still life. Just another way of shooting that did not exist 20 years ago.
That is still good if the client understands and budget for 5 setups of one motif. I experience one motif and several crops out of that one photo. Where is my style of compositions when I need to get one photo for a panoramic crop for website header and then out of the same photo crop it for an Insta post?
@@martinekwall4671 Yes. Ideally we try to compose the set or still life so we can get more than just one crop from the photo. With this particular client they also sometimes have to accommodate type so that makes the process even more challenging. But the stylist and AD are very familiar with this way of working so really it isn't too slow. But often we have to go from vertical to horizontal which of course requires re-setting things.
@@jimjimgl3 thanks for the insight! Great workout between you, the stylist and the AD!
I photograph commercially people in the arranged sets, pretty quick arrangements with flashes . I find it very hard to compose in stylistic way with the same photograph needs to fit for a header on the responsive site to work for a mobile view, and a desktop view as well as Insta post. Maybe it is easier to go from vertical to horizontal in that order? I work tethered to Capture One and I can have the different crop aspects saved. That’s not the problem.. the problem I have is to compose with a selective focus and not everything in sharpness. I don’t like this way of constraints that one needs to work for so many different crop aspects. I mean I need to shoot wide. Sometimes the web agency insist on having titles in middle of the header. All this makes it just a bit difficult.
@@martinekwall4671 Yes. More challenging for you to figure out how to move people around to accommodate your necessary crops. Those extreme crops I think are very unnatural with people. Either they are so small in the frame to fit in more of the body or it is just a head. I bet it is easier for you to first shoot vertical and then proceed to a horizontal crop. At least get the easy one done first. I've worked with Capture One for many years and now I don't like shooting unless tethered. Back in the day I used so many polaroids on jobs. Kinda wasteful really but so helpful with composition. Capture One is really like digital polaroid.
I shoot live music venues and I am finding the exact some thing. People want me to shoot video AND stills, and I'm like.. uh.. hello? I can't walk around getting still shots while the camera is on a tripod recording video and I'm not setting up multiple cameras for what I am being paid to shoot still shots. People just need to be told NO and if they don't like, go elsewhere.
Would never have guessed a Sam sulek reference in a Scott Choucino video 😂
By a long way the most valuable photography channel on CZcams.
less can be a better thing for a beginner, you learn to use well 1 light, then 2 , then 3... if you get 10 lights at the beginning you will make a mess
‘Profit first’ is a philosophy for life.
Interesting point you raised about quality. I've had people tell me I can't charge money for my work because my camera isn't pro, and yet my camera is far better than any single camera that existed ten years ago. So tell me how a standard of a photo has changed so much in ten years that I can't charge for a 23mp image, and yet I charge for them all the time and people are happy to buy them because they are often the highest quality images anyone took of their band. It just goes to show that most people who are telling others what they can and can't do, actually don't know what the F they are even talking about. Misery loves company I guess.
Spot on and I've been questioned similar to this, i sell nightscape prints(ok not heaps) that are only taken with a little 24mp Canon 200d
@@robertleeimages Guys I've sold prints that I've taken on my phone! About a dozen to one collector and a handful to others, not many because the business side is a little overwhelming for me. Image quality is subjective to the size and style of image being produced, gigapixel panoramas are simply not what I do lol.
Dead on! Thanks
Imo, AI will never truly "end" photography but there are genres that are going to be bulldozed by it. Those who are unwilling to evolve and engage with it, though, are the ones who will lose their lunch the fastest. There will be always a market for photography in the high end, but it will be fewer and fewer jobs being fought for by an ever increasing number of people.
For example, in the world of headshots, top shooters like Peter Hurley who is working with elite clientele will be fine, his work is about the whole experience. But for the mediocre headshot photographer who mostly is doing $100 shoots for people's LinkedIn will quickly find themselves irrelevant because some AI headshot app will do the same thing for $3.
I also think for a lot of genres, it will become even more about the story than the work than ever before. For example, with few exceptions, an artistic wildlife photo is effectively worthless. Even a world class photo of a spectacular subject is effectively worthless at this point and only getting worse by the day. The wildlife photogs who do and will be able to make a living are the ones who orient everything around the story of what they do because it is that story that will draw eyes to the work and it is that story that will sell prints.
did you purposely have the guy outside pop into your frame?...3:48....Happy New Year!
Great video Scott I'm looking to try and get into professional photography, in 24 moving from my Canon 1300D to a 5D mark II or III thanks to this video the prices of these cameras is now going to rise 🤣 I better get one quick.
Interesting conversation with some very key points, I have to agree with you that photography doesn’t pay the money it used to pay! Even the top models don’t get the kind of money they used to get! It’s all gone a bit pear-shaped!
It doesn't help that your website if filled with cheesy softcore porn and web development services. Maybe make a website of quality commercial photography and a separate website for web dev?
I love your insightful vids! And yes, I pay attention... but was I ever distracted at 3:45!! 😳
What was that peeper doing on the right?
Great info Scott 👍🏻 Now the guy in the background ? Is either a window washer or scoping out your security system 😂
Good news! I’m great at low image quality 😬
tl;dr version is to adapt with the market?
The only photography channel with oodles of the not so common common sense !
Random question not photography related...what temperature do you keep your studio at? It looks cold! You are always wearing three layers 😃 Cheers!
I'm confused. Didn't you just buy a Fuji with 102 megapixels? How can lower quality be the next thing?
Hope that dude in the background wasn't eyeing up your gear.👀
I disagree that well thought out content no longer has a market. Sure, someone out there is popular with a more “natural” format,but as someone who values his time, I have no patience for poorly produced poorly paceD “authentic “ drivel, and I am not alone. What trend minsters don’t get is that there is always more than one market, and no matter what different people want different things
Agreed, while chasing trends is probably necessary if your primary goal is maximum profit, that's not everyone's primary goal.
I will never TikTok.
Edit: haha i commented before you said I sound like a fuddyduddy - “I don’t like tiktok”.
I tried TT to gain business and ended up being a waste of time, total mind dump. I am focusing on YT Shorts, they are faster to shoot, the audience is more focused. I only started but last week but I am having more fun than I did before.
@@MichaelFrederickPhotoare your yt shorts aimed at photographers or art directors? I can't figure out what to talk about...
@@kenrhem Photographers, I am not great at video but I live north of Boston so our winters are hard so rarely shoot so made it my winter goal to learn to shoot and edit video so I have a new skill in 2024.