What’s the best advice you could give for someone looking to make photography a career?

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JP Stones · Answer

Oh man. These are weird times to be starting in photography, the onset of AI tools like DALL-E will forever change the entire creative industry. Some jobs, some jobs aren't exist anymore. But on the flip side, I'm sure a whole host of new jobs are going to be created. That's what history tells us anyway. Either way, it is a difficult time to be an established photographer, let alone a photographer starting off. I would say though, that the best strategy is to embrace these new tools. They're not going to go away. And the creatives that are left standing, I think they're going to be the ones that really understand and embrace this new technology.

Moose Peterson · Answer

Another standout standing question. What's the best advice you can give for someone looking to make photography career, get involved in editorial world, work with photo buyers photo editors, those people who are Masters at telling stories through photographs and then you listen to them and the time you want to talk to him, especially is when you get that reject notice, which I have file drawers of. But each and every one I have gone back to those editors and said why Does this picture suck? Why didn't it work? And it's from that conversation you learn from those failures, how to be a better photographer? How to make that photograph, do what you want to do, Reach Out, grab people, get their heartstrings thinking, you know, that is really the important part of Photography. So whether you going to go and be a fashion photographer or Sports photographer, or Aviation photographer, or coin collection photographer, those eels in the business of telling stories with photographs and buying them, make them your best friends. That's going to be the best career move you can ever make.

Jasin Boland · Answer

What's the best advice I'd give someone looking to make photography a career? Well, study business because there's a lot of great photographers out there and their businesses fall over because they are dead set horrible business people. So get good at business and you've got half a chance because if you're already on the path to being a professional photographer it means that you already know photography, so learn business. Also it's important with your clients that you want repeat clientele and that's also a very good indicator if you are doing a good job and whether you're worthy of being professional. If someone keeps calling you back then you're doing the right thing. So there you go. Good luck.

Michael Robinson Chavez · Answer

What's the best advice you could give for someone looking to make photography a career man, resilience patients, have a really good business plan setup. Diversify, I think you really have to have good video chops. I think, you know, how to record audio command of video editing software, so you can produce your own multimedia packages, have some, you know, some good solid writing skills. I think that there's a lot of things that can help you win a photography career. I know that photojournalism, it is Is a brutal brutal industry to try to make a living at. There's not that much work out there, certainly not a lot that pays the days of you know, six week assignments, all expenses, paid or long gone. So I'm, you know, you just got to accept the reality and and be doing it for the right reasons, right. Is it a lifestyle thing or is it? Are there stories that you really want to tell

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