blogs.photopreneur.com — Not everyone wants to be a full-time photographer. There are plenty of people who love shooting images and taking beautiful pictures ? and who still want to keep doing a day job which they can count on to pay the mortgage.But that doesn?t mean they can?t also turn their photography skills into a source of income.Here?s how you can do it..
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jstem1994Nov 19, 2007
Weddings are anything BUT fun. Luckily my wife is the "wrangler", she hunts down the bitchy bridesmaids and dumbass groomsmen and helps set things up. I have no patience for them.One wedding was fun, it was Halloween, in a theater for concerts, and the groom was in a goth Type-O Negative-like band. It was more like a concert, and I shot it all in B&W.
infattiNov 19, 2007
lol.. amen. Hey guys, listen to the REAL PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGS here. So-called "amateur photographers" are the reason the profession has gone so far down hill. This is scary because it shows just how watered down the photography industry has gotten with stories like this being read and actually believed by so many naive people. Just because your 2 yr old can take a perfectly exposed and focused pic now with your auto everything computerized digital camera does not mean the 2 yr old understands anything about the world it lives in and how to convey that in an honest thoughtful photograph. Yes, the reality of being a photographer, part-time or full is lots of hard work. In fact, the reality of being any true artist is basic hard work. The difference is a true artist actually considers their art a labor of love. A so-called amateur or hobbyist is only bastardizing the industry and trying to make some money doing something just because they can with an auto-everything camera. Try doing an original portrait with a Hasselblad camera and professional strobes. Perfect the art of the portrait as your hobby. Do that for 10 or so years then come back and write an honest story about the industry… maybe about doing part-time works of art?
blueshockNov 19, 2007
Why is it that everyone that buys a dSLR thinks that they can become a pro?When you buy a guitar and amp, does that automatically make you Eddie Van Halen?But I digress... I just signed up to comment because this article is very far off base. As a professional photographer, I have to say that the money to be made isn't in the photos that everyone can do. Leave that to the pro-am photographers. The money is in doing things that take specialized set-ups. Things like setting up 100 people in one shot. It takes gear to do shots like that. Not photography gear, but posing risers or similar things. To summarize, to make photography your sole means of income, you have to be able to do things that are outside the abilities of the average person with a dSLR.
skyteriaNov 19, 2007
Buried for spam promoting Blurb, Zazzle or Qoop.
endersadvocateNov 19, 2007
I hear ya.my dad is a photographer. He doesnt start early but some of his weddings run 2-3 in the morning and around xmas he works 9-2 (am) to get all of his stuff done by xmas eve
rheaumeNov 20, 2007
"Why is it that everyone that buys a dSLR thinks that they can become a pro?" + " As a professional photographer" = Wahhhhhhhh
vendoritzaNov 20, 2007
After 3 years or so, I have to admit that photography is not a business for living unless you are an extremely good photographer. It matters to have a good camera, but still... you can have the best camera in the world and still won't get more than 30$ per month if you are not EXTREMELY talented. Plus, photography is underpaid in my opinion: between 1-10$ for even more than 1 hour of shooting+processing???