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Oh and something you said kind of bothered me a bit, and I feel I should address it in hopes to helping you understand better.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with someone trying to earn a living from their photography by charging appropriately to cover their costs of doing business and to make a profit. (Of course expenses vary quite a lot from tog to tog but) Most togs just starting out on a full or part time basis need to charge $100 to $200 per gig plus steady product sales, just to pay themselves the equivalent to minimum wage and make it worth their efforts. Of course prices need to grow from there as their businesses grow, so they can eventually make a modest living from their work, but… I just have a feeling that those “awful” prices you were talking about were most likely a bare minimum.
I’d much rather see a fauxtographer charging legit profitable fees/prices than I would a talented photog charging $50 per gig. The latter does more harm to this industry than moderately/honestly priced bad photography services could ever even think of doing.