I honestly wouldn’t lump all of YouTube in the same bag. At the end of the day it’s currently one of the only viable platforms for video-based essays and I personally find a ton of valuable stuff there. That said, one miss-step and your algorithm fills up with the influencer crap, so you gotta tread carefully.
Shame it’s at the bottom. That movie was my number 1 last year, and that’s as someone who never heard of them prior.
In these older years maybe that would change something but in the modern era the market is totally irrational and doesn’t react to news with any kind of sense.
And yeah I’m on DaVinci as well and it’s nice they’re trying and if I do cut off photography gigs that might be enough but for now, definitely not a stand in for LR+PS workflows.
To be honest I’ve tried affinity and it didn’t cut the mustard for my workflows at the time (maybe like 3 years ago). I’ll admit, having used LR+PS for over 20 years I’m very set in my ways, but I’m trying to cut out the photography jobs completely in favour of moving image and once that’s done I should be able to let go (though I still use PS for some stuff in the video work as well but at least it’s not my entire workflows…).
This is what I’ve been doing, most of my software whether for work or personal has a Linux version, however I’m still stuck with Adobe for now for PS+LR and can’t really be bothered with dual booting. As soon as I manage to replace those in a way that works for me professionally, I’m hopping over.
They’re still popular here in Europe. My last car was a wagon.
I’m in the business myself, and the way I handle this is simple. When it’s coming from people I know personally, I look at it like I’m going to do it for free, I weigh that decision that way and only say yes if I accept that. I let them know my rates are quite expensive, and that I’m not asking that from them because I’m doing it as a favour/for the art/for myself (depending on what we’re talking about, weddings, portraits, short films, something for their business etc). Then I let them decide if and how much they’d like to offer, and I’m happy with anything, because I’ve already accepted this was something I was gonna do “for free”.
Weddings in particular, I did a bunch when I was young and these days I’d never pursue more work in that niche, I only do it for family/friends and then the last thing I want is for money to sour things.
Obviously you can’t be doing that all the time, thankfully I don’t and have plenty of properly paid work as well. But you gotta make the difference between favours and clients and can’t look at it the same way, if my wife’s cousin asks if I can help her film some clips for her cupcake side-business I ain’t gonna treat it like a corporate client and ask the 1200€+ day-rate.
Your are basically just making the case for nationalisation (which I agree with). Amazon, bol.com, Uber, all these things could be (inter)national services managed by and for the public.
I tried, it was terrible.
I can’t tell if I genuinely agree or if it’s the nostalgia goggles doing the thinking.
Shut up, brand.
That must be so peaceful, I’m insanely jealous.
That was me two days ago. Spoiler: nothing is fixed and now I’m even more late…
Sans domicile fixe?
Am French, can confirm this is the right way to pronounce it.
Why did I start reading this to the tune of SpongeBob Squarepants and why did it kinda work?