What is it like to be a professional photographer?
Thursday, May 27th, 2010 at
2:27 am
I’m curious what it’s like to be a professional photographer, and how you get prepared for a career in photography.
Is there a special school you go to to become a photographer?
What exactly does a professional photographer DO?
Is there a job you can get when you’re young to get prepared for a career in photography?
What is the average pay of a professional photographer?
Thanks for answers to any or all questions!
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What’s it like – great, terrible, frustrating, interesting, busy, you name it.
How to prepare – learn photography and business.
Special school – not necessary to get any specific qualifications for the vast majority of pro photography work
What does a pro do – whatever they are required to do. There are quite a number of different "specialities" and there are general practices. What you do depends on what you are shooting.
Job to prepare – photographers assistant, gofer in a decent studio
Average pay – no such thing as average pay. Some earn millions some earn very little. It depends on what field you are in and how hard you are prepared to work amongst other things.
GHJ – And people think I am rude.!!! The question was asking relevant things and not the normal – I am going to be pro what do I do. So your response was unwarranted.
For the most part good, but it does become frustrating at times. Clients can be an absolute nightmare sometimes!
No special school, although classes can help, mine is mostly self taught.
I do whatever the client wants (within reason), I then prepare the images and post them for client approval and or meet with them and review the images.
Average pay – I make more as my full time regular job as an accountant as I only work photography part time due to lack of clients in an over saturated market of photographers
1, You can get a college degree with Photography as part of or "all".
You should get a well rounded education as being a "pro" is all about working around the problems and most of the problems have little or nothing to do with Photography. Get a lot of business education with some photo classes as part of your college degree.
2, A pro gets paid to make images.. a lot of us have done a lot of different kinds of work.. I have done school kids, products, PR, newspaper and mag. work, model want to be photos, construction and stock (images to sell via a stock agent) and more.
3, I have made a living, starved, wished I had never picked up a camera in my life and been so happy I could not want to do anything else.. and that all in one year as well as over the 28 years I "did" it as a living. So, no average pay.