Starting a photography business
As someone who has worked as a freelance photographer, I’ve talked the talk and walked the walk about running my own photography business. I managed to stay afloat for 2 years, and then I couldn’t hack it anymore, realising I was more of a writer than a photographer. Fair dinkum, I’m now a journalist again, and I’m happy – especially because part of being a journalist means I have lots of time to work on writing projects, including my book, and Photocritic.
Thing is, Photocritic started off as a DIY photography blog, but has morphed into a ‘I’ll write about anything that interests me and is vaguely photography related’. I am not writing this for myself, though, I’m writing this for my readers. Because I love ya :-)
Anyway – My last poll (shown below) asked if you guys wanted to make money of your photos, and the vast majority (90%, in fact) wanted to or were already doing that. The big question, then: Would you be interested in a series of articles about aspects of running a photography business, or am I getting too far off target? Vote in the polls below, and help shape Photocritic into what you want it to be!
If you have any other ideas about what you’d love to read about, why not add a comment below? I’m always happy to hear from you lot!
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Comments
MUCH BETTER SITE! love it!
Great site. I look forward to more posts.
I would like to know more about being established in a foreign country
Please help… :) I really need somebody to tell me how other studios got their 1st commercial customers in the 1st year of full time work. Do you start with cold calling…?
Haje: Not sure what came of this. I’d obviously be interested :).
Valdi: In addition to great resources here, I’d recommend two articles:
9 Steps to Start (or Jumpstart) Your Photography Business
…and other articles on DSLRBlog. It’s a fairly practical guide to starting and running a photography business.
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