Just curious. I see a lot of people devoting a lot of time to justifying high prices for photographers, etc., but I wonder how many of us have actually hired someone. I guess I am thinking mainly portrait photographers here, but... if there's another reason you've hired somebody, share that.
I haven't had someone photograph me for a fee since my gown sitting for my first uni graduation 4 years ago. However, I'm flying most of the way across the country in a few months and have contacted my favourite photographer for a session (it is a fortunate coincidence that she lives in the city I was going to visit anyway). I knew being my favourite was going to come with a price, but I choked a bit realizing that a 3 hour lifestyle session with product was going to cost me $1500. Then I laughed at myself because as a photographer I'm supposed to agree with and justify this sort of expense.
Anyway I'll probably do it but then I started wondering when was the last time anyone else ponied up the cash for a professional photographer
