Quote Originally Posted by jasevk View Post
Yeah I've buckled to clients before for portrait queries just for the sake of getting the job... but to stand behind my price and watch the job slip from my hands was surprisingly not difficult!

I almost got the sense in my earlier days that SOME potential clients could clearly sense that you weren't a seasoned pro and tried very hard to take advantage of it!
Its a balancing act, without jobs you go broke too, without jobs you can't build up a portfolio, without jobs you can't get experience and then there's the almost certain fact that clients only willing to pay cheap rates are also the ones who'll try and take advantage of you.