Jobs In Photography?

Question

I really want a job in photography... Im 16- so im looking for future life-long jobs.... Thanks!

Answer 1

Photography will most likely be your side job, or a hobby. The reason being, photography as a career has grown massively in the past few years, mostly due to the digital camera and cheaper prices. Now everyone with a Canon EOS XT thinks they can be a professional photographer. While I congratulate them for their enthusiasm and dreams, there are several thousand other people who are thinking the same thing. And the numbers are constantly growing. Photographers come a dime a dozen. To set yourself apart from the rest, you most be very good at what you do.

When looking at a career as a photographer, don't look at National Geo, and think this is what you'll get right from the start. The photographers for this magazine are the best of the best. For a more readily available career in photography, look into photojournalism, wedding photography, children portraits, and some things in advertising. These jobs are good if you like what you do, but the Labor Bureau still lists photography as a very low paying job; try $20,000 on average, or $10,000 in the lower 10%. Of course this fluctuates.

When you start off for college, take a lot of art and photography classes, but also some in writing and other practical courses. Just so you'll have something to fall back on.

I'm not saying photography is impossible. I'm just saying so many people want in, it's hard to find work sometimes. Other photographers might make a great living, while others only make a few thousand a year, if that. Always have something to fall back on. Try your best, and follow your dreams. If you want to photograph for National Geo, or some other magazine, go for it.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

My first photography position was at Lifetouch when I was 18. It is a great first position to learn the basics! I worked for Lifetouch for 2 years and was offered a Manager Position, but I left to get my Bachelor s Degree in Mass Communications with an emphasis on Photographic Arts at UCO. While I was in college, I did a work-study as a Marketing Assistant. However, I learned the most through my internship! After college, I worked for the company I interned with for 2 years before starting my own business.

I would also recommend getting involved with your local PPA (Professional Photographers of America) chapter. There you can network and learn about photography and local upcoming classes. PPA actually has it s own "degrees" if you want something that is recognized in the professional photography world.

Don t let people tell you that you can t make it in photography. It is possible if you work hard and follow your dreams! :)

Answer 3

One of the quickest developing fields of photography is the appearance of vast online stock photo locales. Stock photos are the pictures utilized by experts and semi-experts as foundation pictures or for one-time-utilization rights. They show up in notices, in leaflets on sites and in a mixed bag of other advertising material. Stock photography has been around for truly a while yet the online stock photography destinations (additionally alluded to a Microstock locales) are a generally late wonder.

What recognizes these Microstock locales from the customary stock photography outlets is that they source their material practically solely from the Internet; do so from a more extensive scope of picture takers than the conventional destinations (counting novice photographic artists and diversion fans) and offer their pictures at a much lower rate than was customarily the case.

Customers have the capacity permit stock photographs for simply $1 or $2 and photographic artists acquire cash each one time a customer picks one of their photographs. You can rapidly see that a group of half fair photographs that can be downloaded by customers a few times each day can rapidly transform into an extremely decent salary.

The predominating ethos here is that of amount. The pictures on microstock locales procure not exactly their conventional partners however the expanded interest for computerized pictures (in view of the touchy development of the Internet) and in addition the simplicity of conveyance that the Internet gives, will prompt as much cash being produced using numerous littler deals than as is the situation from a couple of bigger deals on the customary stock photography destinations.

Answer 4

If you were my son or daughter, I'd say go at it but don't expect to do it as a full time job. There's so many photographers now a day and so many mom/pop carrying dslr thinking that they can do it themselves.

Get a good college degree and do it on the side. Be a weekend wedding photographer or just shoot relatives and friends.

Good luck
My website is shootmenowstudio.com it's based in San Jose. There's millions of us here and competition is rough.

Answer 5

There is much scope in Jewellery Photography. Try it.

Good Luck for you future.

Answer 6

I agree with the remarks above - all the way.
I was lucky.
Self-taught, one of the early users of digital, even though it was less than 1meg!!!
However, I was in the right place at the right time and knew the right people to get recommended to cover some events.
My results were so superior to their existing FILM photographer, as far as creativity was concerned, that I was then hired on a regular basis.
One thing leads to another ...

Answer 7

Send resume to various photography companies and update you resume to job portal sites. Its the easiest way to get job.

Answer 8

best wedding photography in Sydney.

Answer 9

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