Reply To: Am I flooding the market by teaching photography?

[rookie35m]

As a professional service provider and a staunch fiscal conservative, here is my take: Capitalism cures everything. Those students have every right to open a photography business. With no experience they will undercharge and produce DSLR snapshots versus true images. The market will take care of the rest. Once they get through the family and friends sessions, they will be left to picking up leads from referrals (from more people with no budget for a true photographer). Anyone that does this for real knows what things cost and how much you have to charge to make this a full time endeavor. They will either go out of business or stay in the mediocre pool. Either way, it doesn’t affect me. In fact, we need people in all aspects and values of photography. Their customer will never be mine and my customers will probably never be theirs.

In short.. people worry to much what someone else is doing. This site was amusing for five minutes but its really filled with more mediocres that seem to be upset that their low end pool of customers is actually affected by an amateur or newbie. That’s not a knock on the prolific posters but you’re work is mehhh.. $150/$200 per session stuff. Work on your own business and the newbies and hacks work themselves out.

 

OP, you are offering a service. Who the hell cares what anyone does after they complete your course? You can lead a horse to water….