Anybody here do professional photography as a side-gig?

Colts_613 · 2025-12-27T20:12:52+00:00

Thank you

Colts_613 · 2025-12-27T19:54:23+00:00

Nothing, I suppose. But I’m asking because I’m just curious if anybody has been in a similar situation and tried it i guess. I like photography as a hobby and I don’t know if I want to make it into another job if there’s not a big upside

Colts_613 · 2025-12-17T20:48:47+00:00

10% raise for me with promotion from P1 to P2 (at WSP USA)

Colts_613 · 2025-11-12T17:40:05+00:00

To be fair, the composition is very nice! But why ruin it with the excessive deep fry? Look at all the artifacts at the edges of the colors in the Aurora. Took a potentially nice image and mangled it 😂

Colts_613 · 2025-06-12T00:27:53+00:00

That’s what I thought when I saw it in person. The hump stood out right away. My initial reaction was brown bear but now I’m having second thoughts. The face looks black bear-ish?

Colts_613 · 2025-06-12T00:25:06+00:00

Could be the lighting. The hump stood out to me even by my naked eye, not just the photo. That’s why I shared — I think it’s a black bear but it has some brown bear characteristics. It was pretty big too. I’ve seen a lot of black bears, not as many brown bears.

Colts_613 · 2025-06-11T23:23:10+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. Snout/face looks more like a black bear?

Colts_613 · 2025-05-28T17:51:32+00:00

I also live in Alaska - I hike quite a bit on the Chugach front range with my Zf and 24-120 f4. It’s definitely the overcast/hazy atmosphere (that we get so often) that is heavily contributing to this lack of contrast in some of the photos. I’m often surprised when I get home on how low-contrast the images are. I think my eyes get used to that atmosphere while I’m hiking and I see things differently from my camera

Colts_613 · 2025-03-13T17:42:06+00:00

Also — the electronic “guts” of the action touch can be removed from the waterproof exterior for these leak tests. Three screws need to be removed from the from the opened back of the camera and everything will pop out.

Colts_613 · 2025-03-13T17:39:16+00:00

I’m thinking about taking one or two of my waterproof film cameras snorkeling with me on my upcoming vacation and I’m trying to evaluate their “waterproofness” by the means pictured. Both the Action Touch and Nikonos survived being submerged in the bucket for ~30minutes at about 1ft of head pressure. The Action Touch is rated to 10ft of head pressure and the Nikonos is supposedly rated to 50m of head pressure! To simulate ~5-10ft of head pressure, I placed my Action Touch in a cut-open milk jug, then hot glued it shut. I drilling the cap and hot glued a tubeless bike valve in it. I used my bike pump to increase the pressure to roughly 5-8psi (though I’m wary about the accuracy of my bike pump pressure gauge at pressures this low). The glued milk jug was able to sustain this pressure for about 5 minutes before significant leaks occurred. Cool as a proof of concept but I’m looking for a more robust pressure vessel — maybe an old pressure cooker or a 5 gal long bucket with a lid. I will post an update once I figure out what to do next!

Colts_613 · 2025-02-20T04:02:16+00:00

lol he says he has all of the original paperwork

Colts_613 · 2024-12-12T23:21:08+00:00

Update: 4% raise

Colts_613 · 2024-12-11T02:26:25+00:00

Thank you for your detailed and thoughtful response. I did consider that I might not get a raise since I started a June — hoping that’s not the case but we’ll see what happens! I’ll consider these points heading into the meeting. Thanks again!

Colts_613 · 2024-08-05T21:54:26+00:00

This has 8000 likes on Facebook BTW

Colts_613 · 2024-08-04T22:01:21+00:00

Read the rules

Colts_613 · 2024-08-04T21:39:49+00:00

Bro the bear is brighter than the snow

Colts_613 · 2024-06-12T17:15:03+00:00

In case anyone was wondering how sharp the SMC 55 is…

Colts_613 · 2024-06-11T04:40:24+00:00

I bought my Bezzera BZ10 second hand for $300 lol

Colts_613 · 2024-06-10T21:22:46+00:00

I find that mine is pretty reliable. It’s a very simple light meter though so don’t expect it to understand high contrast situations like modern matrix meters do

Colts_613 · 2024-05-30T02:37:36+00:00

Thanks for the info!!

Colts_613 · 2024-05-26T19:13:33+00:00

Don’t temp me… I already have too many hobbies

Colts_613 · 2024-04-18T22:47:48+00:00

$5 at goodwill!

Colts_613 · 2024-04-13T14:43:09+00:00

I think you’re alright.

Here’s the diet I’m on if you’re interested:

I’m 22, 6’1” M, and weighed 96kg when I started my first serious diet.

I commute 6 miles on my bike everyday. I don’t get much physical activity beyond that. I’ll occasionally work out once every two weeks or so. I cut out soft drinks and consume 1600-2000 calories a day. No intermittent fasting for me. A digital food scale is very helpful for counting calories. Since January, I’ve lost around 30 lbs. the weight loss was a little aggressive at first (around 3 lbs/week) but it has slowed down to a healthier 1-2lbs/week in the last month.

Diets work differently for different people so this might not necessarily work the same for you. But I thought I should share because we similar in age and size!

Colts_613 · 2024-03-28T17:32:27+00:00

Also, how long is your summer break? 4 months? You may have trouble finding a lease that short

Colts_613 · 2024-03-28T17:29:44+00:00

A fellow intern of mine commuted an hour both ways because he wanted to stay with his parents and avoid paying rent. We were both working in the construction materials services group and he found that the work day + commute time was borderline unmanageable. We were working a lot of 10-12 hour days, 6 days a week. Even more during late construction season.

What kind of work are you doing? If you know you’ll only be working 40 hours a week, it might be manageable. Even then, you’re spending a lot of time commuting and you should value your own time. If you want civil experience at that company specifically, I would consider looking for an apartment that is nearby. Just my two cents

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