There is nothing more exciting than opening your email and seeing an inquiry in there for something that has the potential to be really cool. And scammers know that and they use it to try to lure unsuspecting photographers into losing a decent sum of money.
Sometimes the fun part of volunteering your time as a photographer is getting to photograph things that aren’t necessarily expected. My last event was a murder mystery in a youth corn maze complete with a concert before hand.
One of my favorite things to do as a professional photographer is use my skills too give back. For me that means a lot of pro-bono events or shoots to help a good cause. I have worked for children hospitals, fundraising tours, and recently helped out at a youth ministry spooky season event.
So much of my time as a photographer is finding people illegally taking and using my work, violating my copyright, and providing a lot of my existential dread of being a professional. From the day my work started becoming good enough for attention people wanting to exploit it and take it for free converged out of the woodwork. It has since been an eternal struggle to stop people be they strangers, event participants, or large corporations for taking my work without proper permissions and payments.
This show season has been a rough one with more cancellations than events due to weather. For my part of the country is has been a really rainy and wet season resulting in very wet and dangerous ground for the fast ponies to run in. But the final show of the season did happen!
It is that time of year again where the bookings for next year opens. Exposure One Studios is taking booking for all sessions, both nations international now after taking the 2022 calendar year off— I am back and feeling refreshed and ready for a successful and productive photography or graphic design year to come.
