Finding a painter to shoot color...

Materials are expensive. Painting over somebody else's prep is risky from a body shop perspective

Exactly. Quality Paint can be as high as $1000 a gallon now. Clear can be around $200 a gallon.

I dont know what the cost of living around you is but if I only do $500 worth of work in a day after I pay my employee's and expenses I wont be taking anything home myself at the end of the week. Everything has gone up.