what sort of companies employ photographers?

Answer 1

Most professional photographers are freelancers. It is an extremely difficult living, but can be rewarding as well. No matter what kind of photographer you are, expect to spend years making a name for yourself before you reap the benefits. A photography degree will give you credibility in the long run, but not necessarily a job in the short run.

First, you have to decide what kind of photography you can do. While many freelancers do other types of photography on the side to make more money, expect to have one main type that you want to make a name with.

Types:
- Fashion: a degree may help you in this field more than most. Developing a strong portfolio and being comfortable around beautiful women are prerequisites.
- Food: A highly specialized field, but a small enough niche to make a nice living once you're established.
- Product: every catalog you see employs photographers to take those pictures, and it's generally steady work. There are often sub-specialties.
- Photojournalism: a degree will help you most here, and gives you a good shot at breaking into a low-level job. Generally doesn't pay well and often you get little celebrity for your work, but it's also the most consistent employment.
- Sports: sometimes related to photojournalism, but not always. Many photographers make a nice living taking pictures of little league games.
- Nature: Every guy with a point and shoot is competing with you, so it's hard to break through the clutter. Unlike other types of photography, the person who hires you (buys your picture) often can't tell the difference between a good photographer and a bad one. Takes a long time to make a living at this.
- Portrait: Like nature photography, you are hired by those you sell to, so marketing is key to portrait photography, but it's a little easier to make a living at. Expect high costs for starting a studio once you're established.
- Wedding: Perhaps the best paying but least enjoyable form of photography. The stress and demands of a wedding often suck any sort of fun out of the craft for many photographers, but nearly all photographers do it at one time or another to bring in extra money.

Remember, no matter what type of photography you use, you don't need anyone's permission to become a photographer. Just start taking the kinds of pictures you want and find a way to market and sell them.

Answer 2

In a nutshell like the previous post said, we mostly work freelance. Who hires us? Well sometimes big organizations that have the money to afford an art department call us directly though not to hire us on a permanent basis. However, often times you get a call from a design or advertising agency who is working on behalf of a company that wants to promote some new product. Every company who has a product to sell, whether it is physical or not needs a photographer to help promote it. Photographers are the backbone to the advertising industry.

Answer 3

Lots of good suggestions (and don't forget newspapers) but the market is wide open if you feel confident enought to go freelance.

Check out the Photo Plus Expos in your area to learn how others do it. You can get fee admission online, but you have to pay for a pass to attend learning seminars, though there are some open to all. They also exhibit photo art, and loads of exhibitors are there to sell to you and to answer your questions.

Answer 4

i'm no longer a professional as of yet yet i do no longer think of that many professional photographers who shoot digital incredibly print their very own photos. the cost of a good printer is so severe that few human beings can take on the cost. instead, many photographers use amenities that do the printing for them. i comprehend that Mpix is familiar for mail order prints.

Answer 5

advertising agencies, publishers, any company needing picture details of their products in other words most companies

Answer 6

PR companies and organisations that organise events, corporate dinners, award ceremonies and that type of thing.

Answer 7

you should go on the ships my niece went on a year ago after she finished uni and loves it goes all over she in Bahamas now and has been promoted already

Answer 8

ALL sorts if they have any sense