I take pretty good 'art' photos and 'erotic' photos. I get some offers to sell them. Is there a way to make a living doing this or do you also have to work commercially, like for industry, etc.
2007-01-31 08:01:57 · 5 answers · asked by holacarinados 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
You can make a living doing anything. You just have to determine the quality of living you want.
Just photographing alone is hard. But it can be done. I know lots of professionals who just photograph and make a very good living doing it.
It really depends on how good you are and if you can meet the needs of supply in your area. If you start a business where there is already 50 other bussiness just like that you are goign to have a problem competing with reputation.
By the way - adding ' ' around your verbs doesn't make it a different type of photography. Art is art and erotic is erotic. Adding ' ' doesn't make it commercial or portrait or wedding. My wedding photography is art... my best friend's commercial photography studio produces art. =)
2007-01-31 08:46:40 · answer #1 · answered by Ipshwitz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technically, yes. Realistically, not without some strong momentum. I'm an award-winning news photographer by trade (which really doesn't qualify my answer any better), and a wildlife photographer in my free time. I hope to someday be able to make a living off the nature photography, but you really need a big portfolio and a healthy following of supporters. Some folks shoot weddings, school portraits, news or commercial products to support their passion for other photographic subjects. I would discourage quitting your day job to fully persue a "fine-art photography" career until you're confident you're on solid footing. For now, if you have to ask, you're probably not there yet. Good luck - and keep pushing your work.
2007-01-31 08:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by Ruggrock 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are many photographers who make a great deal of money with their work; but, as a percentage of all the people who go into photography as a profession, the number is rather small.
Success depends on talent, luck, and salesmanship...you can be lacking in one of these if you are really strong in the other two. But there is a baseline on talent. If you can't see a good image before you snap the shutter...it'll be difficult to do photography as a living.
2007-01-31 09:31:59 · answer #3 · answered by robot_pi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would be hard to make a living with art photography alone. Unless you can get a book deal or major gallery showing I wouldn't imagine you could sell enough photographs to support yourself. You could try a Website and approach some galleries to get your work seen and if it's popular you might get lucky.
2007-01-31 08:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-13 05:31:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋