Jared polin froknowsphoto.com
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We've got Ren LOC if you were to start a new YouTube channel
How many videos a week would you release when starting out quality versus quantity? Which should I aim for?
This is a coin flip. So if I have a coin in my pocket, I'm gonna flip it
Its tail's which means I still don't have a good answer for you because you never know
What's gonna work today in the new YouTube algorithm? I'm still a big fan of putting out quality
consistent content
It's not in my opinion one video a week unless you can get one video a week to pop majorly
Unless you're that good that you have some kind of Content that people are
Banging down your door for once a week and it starts to blow up then you stick with that
I just think somewhere around two or three videos
Picking some kind of topics that help you drive that story week in and week out or yeah one one day a week two days
A week three days a week. I think that can help you out now in terms of quality vers quantity
somewhere in the middle and it also depends on what you're looking to create if you're a
Photography channel and all of your videos are out of focus that you're posting
Do you think people are going to pay attention to you or if you're trying to teach people how to shoot videos are they going?
To pay attention to you. If it doesn't look good if it doesn't sound good
I rather have less quality looking video, but great audio
Then to have really bad audio but something look better because if you can't hear it
Nobody's gonna pay attention to it. So I don't know that that's really a great answer for you
You just have to start putting it out there and and commit to it. Are you gonna do two?
Are you gonna do three? Are you gonna do one?
What's it gonna look like try it out and then let us see how it looks let's move on to the next one
We've got Cassidy and Roberts
I have been into photography my whole life, but just recently decided to try and make a business out of it
I have been struggling on figuring out the value of my services because I am new to this as a business
I know people who expect cheaper prices
However, I think that my work is very good and I could price competitively with other photographers in the area
so my question is is there a period of time where when you're first starting out the price is cheaper or
Do I strictly go off of my work quality?
Look if you think your work is on par with other people that are making what you think you should be making
Then that's what you price it at
I don't think just because you're new you need to price it as cheaper just to get more jobs
Because now you're training people to pay less
For the type of work that you're doing and it makes it harder to graduate out of that to get more money so I don't
think the answer is
Going with cheaper prices just to go with cheaper prices because you're new if you can garner the prices that you see the value of
Your services based off of the quality of your work then put it up there now
Here's how I figure out how to charge somebody long time ago when I was first starting out or what I recommend to people
Take a look at what you make an hour if you were to be working a day job
what does that hour look like then break a photo shoot down and say here's
How many hours this photo shoot is and it's not just going and taking pictures. It's the work that goes into booking the client
It's the preparation in doing the shoot. It's driving to the location. It's doing the photo shoot
It's editing the photos and it's delivering the photos. There's a lot of moving parts
So is that six hours of work at $20 an hour?
Is that enough money for that six hours of work?
Or is it not?
Sometimes you do need to start somewhere and feel it now to see if your prices are worth
Are at the right point and the one the one bit of advice I can say is that if you're so busy
Because you're not charging enough and you're not really making enough because you have too many jobs that are priced too low
Then it's time to raise your price if you're too busy
It means you're too cheap raise your price. You'll make more money
You may lose out on some customers
But you're making more money on the customers you are working with and if your work is that good you should get paid for it
moving on
Jeff Inc in what body?
should I upgrade to I have a d70 100 with a crooked prism and it's a
$500 fix all my glass is DX and I want to keep the crop sensor
It must be Nikon as well looking to spend under 1,500 bucks don't mind used
I shoot birds some landscapes and family events
Hobbyists and intermediate level. So if you're happy with your d70 100, but it has a crooked
Thingamabob or a prism in it take the next step up or skip a couple of steps and get Ad
7500 I think based off of what you're saying
addy 7500 would be a great option now if that's not in the right price point you can look at a
7200 but I think you should go after the D
7,500 it would be a good option for the things that you're looking to shoot. I've used this camera
I've done a real world review of this camera. It is a very very nice camera for shooting sports. Lots of frames a second
Really fast for shooting those landscapes because you have to shoot landscapes super fast, and I'm kidding
I'm talking about nature birds. You need to shoot through the birds a little quicker. So that's where this camera will help
so that's where I would put my money I would get the
7500 and then maybe try to sell your 70
100 and let people know that the prism needs to be fixed because it probably still has a little bit of value
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