Zach Jacob
New member
I have a request to make, as a weekend warrior myself...
Those of you high and mighty wedding professionals that believe that to truly make it in this business you have to shoot multiple weddings alongside real "pros" like yourselves, just answer me this...
In all your many weddings that you are constantly shooting, how often do you take an aspiring learner along with you, so that they may benefit from your experience and become one of the greats, such as yourself?
My point is, in the case of the sushi apprenticeship mentioned previously, there seems to be an expected path that one can get on. Let's compare it to medical school training in the US. If you want to be a doctor, there's a presecribed (pardon the pun) track you get on: 3 years medical school, then a residency for 3 or 4 more years, etc. There is no such track or program for photographers. Why don't some of you pro's help out some of us aspiring to be as great as you and set up a mentoring program of some kind? Establish a track that may become the norm, so that the integrity of the art may be maintained.
I may not be phrasing this quite how I like so that my point comes across, so I reserve the right to edit and explain my position when folks reply. Thanks.
Those of you high and mighty wedding professionals that believe that to truly make it in this business you have to shoot multiple weddings alongside real "pros" like yourselves, just answer me this...
In all your many weddings that you are constantly shooting, how often do you take an aspiring learner along with you, so that they may benefit from your experience and become one of the greats, such as yourself?
My point is, in the case of the sushi apprenticeship mentioned previously, there seems to be an expected path that one can get on. Let's compare it to medical school training in the US. If you want to be a doctor, there's a presecribed (pardon the pun) track you get on: 3 years medical school, then a residency for 3 or 4 more years, etc. There is no such track or program for photographers. Why don't some of you pro's help out some of us aspiring to be as great as you and set up a mentoring program of some kind? Establish a track that may become the norm, so that the integrity of the art may be maintained.
I may not be phrasing this quite how I like so that my point comes across, so I reserve the right to edit and explain my position when folks reply. Thanks.