If you're learning then should you get paid at all? If you know what you're doing then why should you sell yourself cheap?

By offering weddings at €300 you're ruining your reputation and making life difficult for other videographers. As long as there are cheap wedding videographers about, the quality of wedding videos will remain low. More to the point your customer won't appreciate it. If you're earning less than a retard serving at McDonalds, your client won't respect you.

A true story. A couple of years ago I had enough of working for idiots and arrogant clients in the "industrial video" arena. With the freelancers' superstition about turning down work, I had to find another way of avoiding the crappy video work. So I increased my "commercial and industrial" fees threefold. I reckoned that it would stop them hiring me and I'd prefer to be not earning €600 a day, rather than not earning €200 a day.

I was lucky in that I still had my broadcast work to pay the rent.

Surprisingly, since then my "industrial" workload has increased. More to the point, I don't get any hassle. The more people are paying, the more they respect you. When they were paying €200 a day (I'm talking about "videography" type work here, what is often considered semi-professional, weddings and trade-fair dvds, that sort of bread-and-butter stuff.) they considered me their servant, available 24 hours a day and they'd give me loads of "advice" and criticism for a crappy dvd which would only be seen at trade shows. At €600 a day they consider me an expert and leave me to my own devices.

Broadcast and "proper" television is something else, there are standard rates and either you get it or you don't.

Either do it for free or charge a proper rate for the job.