Making Money From Photography.

[DrivenMind]

I never said I was in it for the money, but what you guys fail to realize, is that despite my young age; I've been doing this for about four years now, and have made maybe a total of $60 off it.

It's not like I'm new to taking pictures, or just looking to make a buck. I was shooting every single thing I could, before I had even graduated high school.

I started working for a media company at 17 where I was lured in by the promise of making money doing something I love to do, but I haven't gotten **** to show for it except experience.

I think one of my biggest problems is thinking that this could be a full time job. Doesn't matter how educated you are on the subject, because people are forever trying to exploit creative individuals. I've never expected to get paid for anything on this forum, I simply took to posting my photos because several of the photographers here, have in a way somewhat grown up together photographically.

Over the past few years while we've been bull****ting on IA, a lot of the same guys who were posting pics with shiity point and shoots; are now the very guys who come back from a shoot somewhere, and upload their pics to IA to see what their fellow Atlanta based, visually inclined, gear heads have to say about their photos.

I hate photography, almost as much as I love it, because no matter how much I grow as a photographer, or spend on a "professional education"; people simply refuse to acknowledge the fact that my services might be worth paying for. It's as though most people know they can the shots they want out of me for free.

Who knows, maybe I'll just say **** photography, and look into audio production.

[dartingd]

I never said I was in it for the money, but what you guys fail to realize, is that despite my young age; I've been doing this for about four years now, and have made maybe a total of $60 off it.

It's not like I'm new to taking pictures, or just looking to make a buck. I was shooting every single thing I could, before I had even graduated high school.

I started working for a media company at 17 where I was lured in by the promise of making money doing something I love to do, but I haven't gotten **** to show for it except experience.

I think one of my biggest problems is thinking that this could be a full time job. Doesn't matter how educated you are on the subject, because people are forever trying to exploit creative individuals. I've never expected to get paid for anything on this forum, I simply took to posting my photos because several of the photographers here, have in a way somewhat grown up together photographically.

Over the past few years while we've been bull****ting on IA, a lot of the same guys who were posting pics with shiity point and shoots; are now the very guys who come back from a shoot somewhere, and upload their pics to IA to see what their fellow Atlanta based, visually inclined, gear heads have to say about their photos.

I hate photography, almost as much as I love it, because no matter how much I grow as a photographer, or spend on a "professional education"; people simply refuse to acknowledge the fact that my services might be worth paying for. It's as though most people know they can the shots they want out of me for free.

Who knows, maybe I'll just say **** photography, and look into audio production.

a little advice...people don't usually buy from "younger" people...i am a truss engineer, and before this, i sold commercial carpet...when i would go to measure jobs, the older contractors didn't want anything to do with me..now that i'm a truss engineer, the contractors usually call an order in, email in archs, or w/e...i do the job and get it done right...then when they come in to pay and meet me, they look surprised, but do come back afterwards...speaking from experience, it's really hard to get that foot in the door...on another note, we paid our photographer 500 bucks to take our photos..maybe it was 600, dun remember, and they turned out great...you could make good money if you got your networking down...