Judy for Photographer & Videographers

Bookkeeping for Freelance Photographers & Videographers

Your camera gear is depreciating, your mileage is piling up across shoot locations, and you're not sure if that destination wedding trip is fully deductible. As a freelance photographer or videographer, your Schedule C should reflect both your high equipment investments and your travel-heavy workflow—but most bookkeeping software treats you like a generic service business.

Sound familiar?

You're sitting on $10K+ in camera, lighting, and drone equipment, but you're not sure if you should expense it all at once or depreciate it—and the IRS definitely cares which one you choose.
You drive to a dozen shoot locations every month, but tracking business mileage across weddings, commercial gigs, and studio time feels like a second job.
That destination wedding in Hawaii or commercial shoot in Miami has flights, hotels, and meals—but you're unsure which line items actually count as deductible travel versus personal vacation.
Your income swings wildly by season (busy wedding months vs. slow winters), but your bookkeeping doesn't show you the real patterns until tax time.

Your Schedule C profile

Equipment-heavy Schedule C. Cameras, lenses, lighting, and drones on Line 13 (Section 179 or depreciation). Vehicle for shoots on Line 9. Travel for destination work on Line 24a. Studio rental on Line 20b.

What Judy handles for you

✓ Tracks equipment purchases and flags for Section 179 expensing
✓ Categorizes vehicle expenses and reminds to log business miles
✓ Separates travel costs (Line 24a) from local vehicle expenses (Line 9)
✓ Monthly P&L shows seasonal revenue patterns at a glance

Judy automates the specific deductions that matter to photographers and videographers: equipment purchases are flagged for Section 179 expensing vs. depreciation, vehicle mileage is categorized separately from travel costs, and destination work trips are separated from local expenses. Instead of piecing together your Schedule C from bank statements and guessing, you get a real-time P&L that shows your seasonal patterns and confirms every dollar of gear and travel is accounted for correctly.