The business side of photography
Sooner or later there will be a demand for photography services again. It may still be several months away but photographers should do a few things now to be ready.
Customers may require photographers to wear face masks. Some local governments may require everyone to wear a face mask in all indoor locations. Be prepared for this now by buying some face masks.
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10. Regret your career choice. Pizza delivery is now more lucrative than photography.
9. Do some still life photos of all the toilet paper you hoarded.
8. Be thankful you have no money to buy more useless photo accessories.
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Every professional photographer knows how to minimize risk: carry a backup camera, have extra batteries and memory cards, tape down cables, don’t overload a boom arm, etc. But what about minimizing risk to your cleanliness?
After 30 years of photographing in locations like hospitals, seniors’ homes, prisons, food processing plants, drug manufacturing sites, pharmaceutical labs, commercial kitchens and in countless private homes, here are a few little things I’ve learned.
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Does a camera have a speedometer?
I received a request a few days ago to photograph a Toronto conference later this month. The event organizer said they expected the photographer to deliver a minimum of 125 pictures per hour. Huh?
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Canadian professional photographers, like many other business owners, may be thinking about income tax this time of year. They may even be thinking:
. . . prior to the introduction of the Accelerated Investment Incentive, a property in Class 8, which has a prescribed rate of 20 per cent, would be eligible for CCA of 10 per cent of the cost of the property in the year it becomes available for use, due to the half-year rule. Under the Accelerated Investment Incentive, the taxpayer will be eligible for CCA of 30 per cent of the cost of the property—that is one-and-a-half times the CCA calculated using the prescribed rate of 20 per cent or three times the 10-per-cent CCA that could otherwise be claimed in the first year.
My annual look back at some of the photo purchases I made in 2019.
This is a well-made roller bag and most things about it are quite good except:
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This is another view-from-my-office photo.
Imagine if a restaurant charged for its meals based only on the time it takes to prepare the food. What if clothes were priced based only on the time it took to sew that piece of clothing? How about a grocery store that priced by the hour: for example, you get all the groceries you can grab for a rate of, say, $200/hour.
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