{"id":1249608501,"date":"2007-01-21T18:41:31","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T02:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/?p=1249608501"},"modified":"2022-03-10T13:08:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T21:08:40","slug":"karista-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zerodean.com\/photography\/photos\/karista-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Karista"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By early 2007, I’d been getting work as a photographer in Los Angeles for 2 years. For having started in an incredibly cutthroat and competitive market from scratch, I feel like I was doing pretty well considering my circumstances. Being good at search engine optimization helped — I often ended up on the first page for anyone searching for a Los Angeles portraits photographer.<\/p>\n

So business was steady and I was getting lots of experience shooting headshots & portraits for actors, models, and entertainers — but despite this, I was barely breaking even each month due to credit card and car loan debt. It was frustrating.<\/p>\n

In January, I got a call from a country singer who wanted to book me for a full day for my day rate of $1,400.\u00a0 She was the first individual<\/em> (vs company) to ever do so. After 3 years of working professionally, I felt somewhat validated when a person who I had never worked with before hired me for a full day of shooting in a place I’d never been to.<\/p>\n

And it was obviously great to get paid so much for a single photography job, but the job actually required me to buy a wide-angle lens in order to shoot it. So, in the end, the job essentially paid for the lens.<\/p>\n

So, in the end, I would still be struggling to make ends meet. But my client was happy — and the shoot was a blast — so it was still a rewarding experience.<\/p>\n

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By early 2007, I’d been getting work as a photographer in Los Angeles for 2 years. For having started in an incredibly cutthroat and competitive market from scratch, I feel like I was doing pretty well considering my circumstances. 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