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 p.1 #3 · YouTube: How MUCH do F1 PHOTOGRAPHERS make? | |
TooManyShots wrote:
WTH? $30,000 to $200,000? I guess it covers every dollar amount.  Personally, I am not envious of these F1 photographers. Is probably very difficult to become one and to get into. And you need enough money to travel around to shoot the races. And you have to pay for the media passes from what I read in the upward of $500? You should have a reason to pay for a media pass such as shooting for a team or a car brand and etc.
Just like a regular sports photographer, them. Sure you could make the big bucks, the median is much lower.
I have never looked into the type of work Kym Ilman does as a photographer other than seeing some short videos on social media, but I always figured he was more of a Clive Rose (Getty Images' main F1 Photog) type that was hired by one agency as a staffer or at the very least his own one-man agency. That's just on the pure basis of shooting every race. Turns out its more of media company rather than a photo agency in and of itself.
If that's the case and that he's doing this for fun rather than being always on assignment, it makes some sense that he's on the hook for more expenses I don't know about how I feel about paying for media passes vs them only being handed out to actual media. You need a visa for all the following countries: USA, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Japan, China, Italy, Monaco, Canada, Spain, Austria, the UK, Hungary, Belgium, The Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Mexico, Brazil, Qatar, the UAE. Of course some of those are in the EU and Schengen Area, so that helps. That's a lot of flying/flight expenses unless you live in Europe or a country with lots of cheap flights.
Camera wise, I figure you'd need a couple of pro-level cameras, the ability to cover the range from ulrawide, if not fisheye, all the way up to 400mm or 600mm. That's not cheap either.
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