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Wedding Photography Economics and Sweating Through Weddings
from Gash Digital · #56
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2 minTim and Ray discuss the real economics of wedding photography margins on albums, the demographics of who does the job, and Tim jokes about being an overweight, sweaty, hard-charging photographer diving through crowds for shots.
- 1:11:13Wedding photography can be very lucrative on the high end, but the margins get eaten up by real leather albums that cost $1,000 out of pocket.
- 1:11:50Tim sweats through weddings and doesn't want to be visibly drenched while shooting at fancy venues like Vanderbilt mansions.
- 1:12:11Wedding photographers tend to be women or older Italian guys, and it used to be a thing where ex-cops shot weddings.
- 1:12:32Tim acknowledges the feminist angle to the industry but notes that once you sit down to dinner with clients, it becomes just another job.