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You Can Now Get Paid to Follow Rich People Around on Vacation And Create Better Instagram Photos For Them

Chris Gampat
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05/01/2017
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You guys: people are starting to finally realize that they suck at Instagram enough to warrant needing to bring a photographer with them and ALSO HIRE THOSE PHOTOGRAPHERS!!! This is one of the latest new trends in photography that’s come after birthing photography, family documentary, etc. So if you feel you’ve got the chops and the documentary experience, then you’re probably talented enough to rub shoulders with some talentless rich kids–at least when it comes to Instagram.

Warning: a fair amount of good natured snark is ahead.

The idea is apparently being made famous by El Camino traveler. The agency curates a number of good photographers and lets wealthy travelers shadow them to document their daily happenings. Each morning, the photographer delivers 20 photos to the traveler(s) for them to share on their Instagram as they please. Combine this with something like Buffer and it means that anyone that knows anything about Instagram means that they can just focus on the message vs the photos and content too.

While I’m surely sounding snarky about this, it really makes sense. Why? Well, to be honest, most people suck at photography. Algorithms like those from EyeEm may make you believe that your photo is “good” because a soulless algorithm is saying that it is; but algorithms know nothing about soul or a whole lot about content. But tried and true photographers do. So who would this be great for? Well considering that you’re working with people:

  • Wedding photographers: They have the natural people skills
  • Photojournalists: Same as above
  • Street photographers: providing you have actual people skills
  • Portrait photographers: Pretty perfect
  • Travel photographers: Perfect

Considering that someone is on vacation too, what they’ll care more about is just simply looking good and ensuring that you make them look good. That’s what they’re paying you for.

You can check out more over at Messy and Chic or check out El Camino travel.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.