Many people are probably wondering if a photographer can earn a living by doing a profession that is his passion.
Well, if you are an artist and you do not want to perform so-called commercial orders, it takes a lot of persistence, talent and often luck to be noticed.
Without these three things, you will basically be doomed to failure because there will be no one to come to your shows.
It is true that we have the Internet and you can even get many fans or followers on Instagram, but it will not translate into profits allowing you to earn a living from the photographer’s artistic work.
It is sad, brutal but we live in commercial times with high consumerism and profit-targeted society
What photographers earn the most from
The truth is that most photographers earn money from commercial orders, so they photograph weddings, weddings, various special events or work in advertising and broadly understood marketing.
Many photographers also deal with the field called product photography, i.e. taking photos of products, for example clothing or tools that are sold in the online store.
Such photos are also often used in the paper versions of product catalogs of promotional leaflets in supermarkets and so on.
I personally also belong to this group.
Even though a person with an artistic soul sometimes makes various compilations of artistic photos, my main source of income is commissions for marketing agencies.
Recently, I also carry out orders for agencies dealing with promoting companies on the Internet and website positioning.
It turns out that in the film you can pay a lot of money for unique photos on a given topic.
So professionally, I am mainly a documenting photographer and a product photographer. This means I sell my work to various marketing agencies as well as SEO agencies.
I rather avoid taking pictures of special events as it is a slightly specific field and requires a slightly different arrangement of equipment and organization.
Does the work of a photographer make sense in 2021?
In the era of crazy times of social media and mobile phones in which everyone has a high-quality camera, it would seem that the demand for this type of services is decreasing.
This is partly true, but only to the extent that fewer and fewer people need a photographer for special events
Nevertheless, if we are talking about professional product sessions, for example photographing products for an online store, in this area I can observe a clear increase in the demand for photography services.
Photographers involved in photographing events will certainly have financial problems, because due to the coronovirus epidemics, many events have been suspended or are held in a small group.
In summary, there is still a great deal of room for maneuver in the photography market today
However, you should pay special attention and carefully choose the areas in which we will specialize
It is also worth knowing modern social media technologies and digital processing, as most of the photos go to the digital market on the Internet
It turns out that the production of paper newspapers, printed books and folders is also declining
That’s all I wanted to say in my first post.
On this blog I will present details of my professional life as well as tips and advice for novice photographers.
Thanks Vicky for sharing your life story and for this blog. The beauty in women’s photography is in the fact that we take photos that we can’t do in a studio, that we can’t do on a mobile, that we can’t do with a camera that’s just sitting there somewhere
I’ve always been the opposite with my photography. As a photographer, I want to capture the moment, the moment that we’re most passionate about in terms of beauty and the way a person looks, and it’s important for me to capture that
This is a time for women in this industry: we are a part of it, we are the people that take the photos, we’re the ones who create the images