What is the average salary for a studio photographer in the Boston area?

Question

Is it possible to make a living doing this? I am considering a job which includes studio work as well as events such as sports, proms, and other photojournalism work as well. Can I make a decent salary? By decent I mean 35k at least.

Answer 1

From the sounds of it you are going to be working for a company that wants you to do this stuff as a part of a contract. That means you would be getting a percentage of how much work you do. I could be wrong but that's what it sounds like to me.

Since I do not live in the Boston area and not knowing what the rates of the work you are doing I can not say if you could make a decent living or not.

So you could contact another photographer in the area but you have to remember he can see you as competition and give you bad advice to keep you from doing this. He could be honest and tell you the truth.

Hope this helps,
Kevin

Answer 2

Why don't you consider doing Postcards??
I was a fashion fotographer for years. Did farely well with tests. But when it came to getting paid jobs I hit a brick wall. Then i started doing Postcards. No studio, no lighting, no pain in the neck clients. Just a simple camera with a wide angle lens and photoshop. I clear a lilte over 300K a year now. i wish I had fell into dong this years back when I was suffering paying my dues.

Answer 3

Ask a photographer in Boston.

Answer 4

if you want a salary be an assistant

if you want to run a studio the income depends on the quality (not price) of your lighting and techincal ability you have to produce images people will part cash with for.

unless your doing portraits, have a small home office and product/other lighting set up and be freelance

Answer 5

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