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Easy money for beginner photographer? Anonymous
Would taking glamour/pr0n photos be the best way to start making money for a beginner photographer? Since newspapers and imagestocks dont hire unknown guys, or pay ridiculously low per picture, how can one make money until more famous and experienced?

Is it even possible for a unknown photographer to make enough to pay all bills and equipment costs? One would probly need to make at least $2000 a month before taxes for the very basic costs.
>> Anonymous
Choice #1: Commercial/glamour/product photography. Usually requires college degree. Must spend 5-6 years as a studio assistant making slave wages, changing batteries, sweeping floors, clamping backdrops, getting coffee, etc. Experience gained invaluable and irreproducible outside studio environment. Able to go start own studio afterwards, to great success.

Choice #2: Photojournalism. College degree usually required. Already mentioned that newspapers don't hire freelance; you're right. You don't have to just produce photos better than their staff photogs, you also have to beat the AP/Wire service. Photo editor's preference: staff>AP/Wire>freelance. Only choice is to go work for the newspaper, which is incredibly hard with no journalism degree, and impossible for "beginner photographer"

Choice #3: Fine art. Take your portfolio (you better have a damned good portfolio put together, and several copies of it.) to a local photography gallery and prepare for rejection. Gallery curators in big cities go through 50-100 portfolios a week and accept maybe 2-3. Of those 2-3 portfolios, maybe 10 photos will be sold, 3 of which will be yours. Gallery gets a 40% cut of a $300 print. Bummer.

You want to go turn a few bucks with your camera? Shoot weddings, but remember that you're responsible for most peoples' single largest investment in photography. Better be good enough to do it.

Bottom line: photography is a hobby and an art, not a money making venture. The people who make the most money off photography are agents and gallery curators.
>> Anonymous
"photography is a hobby and an art, not a money making venture."

I know of someone who made a lot of money on the side by being a wedding photographer.
>> Anonymous
>>64550
You quite obviously are blind as a mother fucker, and missed the following:
>You want to go turn a few bucks with your camera? Shoot weddings, but remember that you're responsible for most peoples' single largest investment in photography. Better be good enough to do it.

Brides are retarded.
>> Anonymous
>>64559
>Brides are retarded.
QFT.
>> Anonymous
"Take your portfolio (you better have a damned good portfolio put together, and several copies of it.) to a local photography gallery and prepare for rejection."

No self-respecting fine-art gallery does "cold call". If you think you take a portfolio to a gallery and the gallery owner will look at it you are fucking retarded. Pretty much the only way into ACTUAL fine art galleries is through group shows and this generally requires at least a BFA/BA and some connections, for a good gallery/solo show you will need an MFA or MA.
>> Anonymous
1. Find a whore
2. Date her
3. Make an website
4. Profit
>> Anonymous
>>65269

There are quite a few galleries in NY that will look at your work off the street. Do some research.
>> Anon
hell =O
>> Moo !XBOXgikTFw
Looks like lotusboob :I
>> Anonymous
no it'll just make you seem really skeevy