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lately i have been thinking about my future life and i really want to be a photography and i want to know how much money is involved with it???
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See the question directly below yours in the photography section to see the value that many people place on a photographer's time.
It's a very tough business. With affordable digital SLR cameras flooding the market every snapshooter now thinks they can turn pro.
Some try to get work by competing on price, do a few $500 weddings, deliver crap, and discover that they'd make more at a minimum wage job with all that's involved. After a few months they get fed up or try to raise their price and find that the next 5 amateurs are waiting to take their place.
At the higher end of the market, skilled photographers are vying for ever fewer jobs.
Many also try stock photography. They post a few dozen good images and wait for the cash to roll in, only to discover that they need thousands of great images to make a living. Micro stock sites pay dirt and the better ones, well, check out the competition at Corbis and Getty. There are already a heck of a lot of good images out there.
If you're a very skilled photographer AND businessman, AND live in an area where there is plenty of work to go around, there's a living to be made. Otherwise, keep shooting purely for your own enjoyment.
It's a very tough business. With affordable digital SLR cameras flooding the market every snapshooter now thinks they can turn pro.
Some try to get work by competing on price, do a few $500 weddings, deliver crap, and discover that they'd make more at a minimum wage job with all that's involved. After a few months they get fed up or try to raise their price and find that the next 5 amateurs are waiting to take their place.
At the higher end of the market, skilled photographers are vying for ever fewer jobs.
Many also try stock photography. They post a few dozen good images and wait for the cash to roll in, only to discover that they need thousands of great images to make a living. Micro stock sites pay dirt and the better ones, well, check out the competition at Corbis and Getty. There are already a heck of a lot of good images out there.
If you're a very skilled photographer AND businessman, AND live in an area where there is plenty of work to go around, there's a living to be made. Otherwise, keep shooting purely for your own enjoyment.
This question is a matter of perspective. Its all about how you look at it, as is everything dealing with photography.
There is a ton of money out there when you talk about photography. There are a ton of photographers out there too. The really great photography jobs do not go to the lowest bidder. There are a handful of photographers out there who are naming their price for photoshoots.
There are the established photographers who make top dollar from well off people because they have the name and do great work. They can't name their price, but they can charge more than your average people.
Just for illustration purposes, we'll say that these 2 groups make 50% of the money in the industry. They probably comprise 3% of it overall. They make good money.
Everyone else has to fight for the other 50% of the money. This includes large chain portrait studios, mom and pop studios, celebrity chasers, free lance people and independent people, and probably some others that I can't think of right now. With the large recent infusion of independent everyday people trying to take a crack at being weekend photographers, myself included, the market is flooded with extra people. Its cutthroat.
There is potential for making good money, but its going to take some great connections, talent, marketing... The bottom line is that it is an easy business to get into, but a hard one to make successful.
There is a ton of money out there when you talk about photography. There are a ton of photographers out there too. The really great photography jobs do not go to the lowest bidder. There are a handful of photographers out there who are naming their price for photoshoots.
There are the established photographers who make top dollar from well off people because they have the name and do great work. They can't name their price, but they can charge more than your average people.
Just for illustration purposes, we'll say that these 2 groups make 50% of the money in the industry. They probably comprise 3% of it overall. They make good money.
Everyone else has to fight for the other 50% of the money. This includes large chain portrait studios, mom and pop studios, celebrity chasers, free lance people and independent people, and probably some others that I can't think of right now. With the large recent infusion of independent everyday people trying to take a crack at being weekend photographers, myself included, the market is flooded with extra people. Its cutthroat.
There is potential for making good money, but its going to take some great connections, talent, marketing... The bottom line is that it is an easy business to get into, but a hard one to make successful.