Comments on: Q&A: How Hard is it to Get Into Photography? http://dilvie.com/2008/06/qa-how-hard-is-it-to-get-into-photography/ Nightlife Photography - Events, Music, Promo, Fashion, Glamour Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:25:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: photoboxr http://dilvie.com/2008/06/qa-how-hard-is-it-to-get-into-photography/#comment-1671 photoboxr Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:10:37 +0000 http://dilvie.com/?p=161#comment-1671 Photographers are a dime a dozen, as stated. Being good is pretty much the easy part once you figure it out. After that is comes down to does the client 1. know you, 2. met and like you, say as an assistant 3. like your work. After a while it almost has nothing to do with what your work looks like. It becomes a popularity game once you've been vetted as a competent photographer. So the big thing to do is get yourself into situations where you get known by people who use photographs, like ART DIRECTORS. The best way to do this is by assisting pro shooters with big clients. Photographers are a dime a dozen, as stated. Being good is pretty much the easy part once you figure it out. After that is comes down to does the client 1. know you, 2. met and like you, say as an assistant 3. like your work. After a while it almost has nothing to do with what your work looks like. It becomes a popularity game once you’ve been vetted as a competent photographer. So the big thing to do is get yourself into situations where you get known by people who use photographs, like ART DIRECTORS. The best way to do this is by assisting pro shooters with big clients.

]]> By: john piercy http://dilvie.com/2008/06/qa-how-hard-is-it-to-get-into-photography/#comment-1661 john piercy Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:37:10 +0000 http://dilvie.com/?p=161#comment-1661 Good read here also http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2008/05/switching-to-pro/ Good read here also

http://www.pixelatedimage.com/blog/2008/05/switching-to-pro/

]]> By: dilvie http://dilvie.com/2008/06/qa-how-hard-is-it-to-get-into-photography/#comment-1610 dilvie Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:16:38 +0000 http://dilvie.com/?p=161#comment-1610 Good points, Will. Thanks for your comment! =) Good points, Will. Thanks for your comment! =)

]]> By: Will Seberger http://dilvie.com/2008/06/qa-how-hard-is-it-to-get-into-photography/#comment-1609 Will Seberger Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:50:59 +0000 http://dilvie.com/?p=161#comment-1609 I'll add, if I may, that it depends a lot on what type/s of photography is to be pursued. Photojournalism is a bit different than commercial work, as the jobs seem to be more frequent, but not as well paying. Weddings are a completely different animal than everything. Marketing is direct-to-consumer and more expensive. Generally speaking, there are only 52 booking days per year too. As to the income, I can attest that it's not that great. I've been in the freelance game for a couple years now, and with the economy/industry down and fuel prices up, have seen a major decline in workload. That having been said, keep in mind that take-home income tends, for many reasons, to be less for self-employed people (in the photo field, more than half are self-employed) across the board. That, and although there is a trend in the industry to 'over-equip' (buying unnecessarily, or instead of renting/doing without), a light professional kit will run $15,000, with a common, middle-of-the-road-kit in the mid $20k's. I’ll add, if I may, that it depends a lot on what type/s of photography is to be pursued.

Photojournalism is a bit different than commercial work, as the jobs seem to be more frequent, but not as well paying.

Weddings are a completely different animal than everything. Marketing is direct-to-consumer and more expensive. Generally speaking, there are only 52 booking days per year too.

As to the income, I can attest that it’s not that great. I’ve been in the freelance game for a couple years now, and with the economy/industry down and fuel prices up, have seen a major decline in workload.

That having been said, keep in mind that take-home income tends, for many reasons, to be less for self-employed people (in the photo field, more than half are self-employed) across the board.

That, and although there is a trend in the industry to ‘over-equip’ (buying unnecessarily, or instead of renting/doing without), a light professional kit will run $15,000, with a common, middle-of-the-road-kit in the mid $20k’s.

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