Is there any jobs a person interested in becoming a photographer can have right out of high school?
2006-09-14 14:41:00 · 12 answers · asked by zack 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
I really like doing nature photography. Things like sunsets, flowers, beautiful settings. Basically anything that has to do with nature. I seem to please my family and friends with some of the pictures I take. I have a website with a few pictures up. Anyone is welcome to go to it. http://www.geocities.com/ztkienbaum/index.html
2006-09-15 01:37:37 · update #1
maybe for your local paper...
go to college first - more doors will open for you. who knows, maybe someday you can work for national geographic!
2006-09-14 14:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by mighty_power7 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depending on how much you already know, it is BEST if you go to college. There is SO MUCH information to learn in a field where knowledge is EARNING power! There are, of course, courses offered in college that offer degrees in photography. For example, there are a few business courses that involve running your own business, how to deal with an agent or manager and/or the ins and outs of running your own studio (taxes, exemptions, bookkeeper, accountant), and such things such as studio lighting, use of outdoor lighting and artificial lighting, reflectors (there are many kinds), filters, use of films and digital technologies, composing, etc. There are also the kinds of photography that you might want to specialize in: wedding, portraits, advertising, baby, pet, glamor, architectural, landscape, sports, photojournalism, travel, forensics, fashion, commercial, fine art, and so and so on, etc., etc., etc. The sky is the limit but the competition is as fiercer than any other you'll ever want to know about. AND your success will depend on your knowledge, experience plus your skills and personal talents. A great many skilled and talented and experienced and knowledgeable photographers fail because they are not business-oriented... and they have no idea where to go for guidance. Go to college and what you'll learn in four years will be equivalent to about 15 years of struggling on your own.
Listen, and this is no joke, improve your typing skills and improve your English skills and you will also be adding another feather to your cap. Communications skills are so important in the workplace... really. What if someday you wish to write a book like so many photographers have done? What if you're in a situation where you come across businessmen/women and you have to speak with them...? What do you think will be the initial impression if you cannot speak intelligently or like someone with some education? Get it?
And between photography assignments you can pick up extra money by working in labs doing development and printing or touch-ups, or any number or photography related work that needs to be done! The opportunities will be limitless for you.
Go to college. Check the Internet for colleges near you. Do the research and speak with your school career counselor. Short of money? Take a notebook and a pen and spend a few hours in the public library with the Grant Directory and take down the names and addresses and dates and requirements of the many available grants available that apply to you. Ask the librarian if there are other similar books on scholarships and grants. How bad do you want ot be a photographer? Talent and skills alone won't help you unless you have the PASSION to persevere! Good luck and very best wishes.
2006-09-14 15:52:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would absolutely go to college first. I was an art major and discovered I had a talent for taking great pictures. Right out of college I had 3 jobs offered to me and now I'm working for a local newpaper and get to travel to all kinds of places. Another great idea would be, to open your own photography studio. Good Luck!
2006-09-15 06:07:15 · answer #3 · answered by nashvillekat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Right out of highschool
Free lance
apprenticeship
Im actually attending College for Creative Studies in Detroit to study photography
2006-09-14 14:43:06 · answer #4 · answered by kcraig2007 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Build a studio in your home and start shooting pictures of young girls who want to be models. You can help them build a photo portfolio. Be a photographer/consultant. Make up business cards and hand them out to beautiful girls. You don't have to develop the pictures either. Send them out to be developed. You just have to take the pictures.
2006-09-14 14:47:21 · answer #5 · answered by Spirit-X 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is, like portraits photographer, paparazzi, magazine photographer, freelancer, photography teacher (in college of arts), wildlife photographer.... it's depends which interest you want to pursue in the area photography in future.
2006-09-14 22:57:47 · answer #6 · answered by Eve W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-09 08:09:54 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i would try assisting with local photographers. they could be wedding, advertising, fashion photographers....whatever. you could make maybe $150 a day depending on your location, but offer to work for cheap at first in order to gain some experience. it's a good way to learn.
2006-09-14 14:59:55 · answer #8 · answered by jonsjons 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you have a healthy background in family to lie back and roam about in life? if so, take the freelance route and jump into the crocodile hunters pond and be a hunter photographer !!!!
2006-09-14 18:17:40 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have try photo studio...
step
2006-09-14 14:53:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋