Your How-To Guide to Entitlement. Or, gimme gimme gimme. Guess what? I don’t work for you.

My standard policy is that whenever I photograph someone on the street, it is my pleasure that, if they make it onto my feed, they get the one photo I may display as a gift. I feel like this is a nice thing to do. I don’t ask for money nor would I accept any.

I am shooting in the street where there is already no expectation of privacy. So it blows my mind that some people think I work for them, or how they misinterpret and hear what they want to hear, even though I specifically say “one file” is given. Should I get a tshirt made that says you only get one.

If they offer to pay I always refuse. I say that it’s free, it’s a nice thing to do and you get a memory of the day by a professional photographer as a surprise for zero dollars.

So, can someone please explain to me how an entitled tourist whose mother in law was shooting them on an iphone magically gets two free frames from me. Again, for zero dollars. She says she “felt mislead.” How hard is it to remember the words “you get one.” Only my paying clients get full galleries. carefully curated and edited, over a period of days and weeks. Because they paid me. That is what I earn and they deserve.

You sweetie, are no client. You’re a girl on the street in a white dress. You walked in front of me at the right time. I’d imagine this would make anyone super happy.

It seems obvious that if a photographer takes ten photos, a hit rate of 10% is customary? In some cases the hit rate goes up or down depending on free radical factors.

Please, read on…