Second Shooters, Assistants, and Studio Teams

Building a second-shooter network, hiring assistants, paying associates fairly, splitting deliverables, and scaling beyond solo work.

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How I recovered from a corrupted card mid-reception

The mistake: I had two card slots in my body but I was writing JPEG to slot 2 and RAW only to slot 1. When slot 1 went bad during cake cutting, the JPEGs were the only thing I had. What I did at the

Jordan · mentorship · 3d ago · 1 reply · 0 reactions

Tax write-offs photographers miss — the six most common

The six I see missed most often: 1. Mileage to and from every shoot, every venue scout, every meeting. The 2026 IRS rate is 67 cents/mile. A wedding photographer doing 30 events a year at 60 round-tr

Sam · forum · 2d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions

AI culling tools tested — Aftershoot vs FilterPixel vs Imagen, the honest take

Tested all three on the same 2,400-image wedding gallery over the last month. What I run now is a stack, not a single tool. Aftershoot: best at "is this image technically OK" — sharpness, eyes-open,

Avery · backup · 5d ago · 0 replies · 0 reactions

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