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Question:photographers:

1. what do they do?

2.how?
3.daily life
4.responsibilities
5.pay
6.education required

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: photographers:

1. what do they do?

2.how?
3.daily life
4.responsibilities
5.pay
6.education required

1. Depends on your speciality. Some do weddings..... while others choose to shoot ads. It's a very diverse field you need to find your niche in. Then again I have seen those who shoot weddings shoot a commercial shoot. Can't really speak for their work though.

2. Best way to learn is to assist a photographer who's work you admire. Once you start to develop the skills and vision, you can only hope the photographer will teach you how to market yourself. So a bit of luck, actually a lot of luck is needed.

3. Once again depends on the type of photographer you want to do. Commercial/Ad shooters can spend a lot of days bidding for their jobs and waiting for their agents to book them on gigs. A wedding photographer can just shoot on the weekends, since weddings are usually on the weekends, and spend the week days advertising, editing the weekend shoot and spending time with family and friends.

4. Make you clients happy while making money.

5. Depends on how established you are. Some people make $500 doing a headshot, and some charge $50,000 for an ad campaign.

6. School can always help you, but best lesson is from actual photographer. Go and become an assistant for a photographer who is willing to take you under their wings. Do that for a few years and you are on your way. Being an assistant is not glamourous by the way. You are basically someone's b!t3h!

NOT just take pictures! If you are a self employed photographer you do your own marketing, cleaning, editing, sales, etc.

It helps if you can afford to hire someone to take the phone calls and meet with customers to give them their orders.

Your hours are usually late. Most people cannot have portraits taken in the am on weekdays, work, school etc. I usually work from 10 am till 7 sometimes 8 pm. Saturday is also a busy day so I close on Sunday/Monday.

I don't shoot weddings but if you do you WILL work late EVERY Friday?Saturday!

Try to work as an assistant with a local photographer, it will give you a lot of first hand knowledge about the skills of photography as well as an idea of the hours.

Hope this helps.

This report will tell you about some of the markets that you can become involved in and how much you might make

http://www.makemoneywithyourcamera.com/m...

A career in photography ?There are many aspects to the job.It`s not all gorgeus models and trips to exotic locations. My mate often takes pics of dodgy building repairs for insurance claims or records the progress of construction projects.If work is scarce, he falls back on his carpentry skills but seems to make a living out of it.He was a keen amateur for years, regular member at the local camera club.Good place to start, they taught me a lot though its just a hobby for me.

90% doing business stuff such as marketing,showing books,billing, estimating and accounting
10% photography

Education not required but helps
Income as low $10 000 a year
medium $25 000
high $50 000 +
Full time positions rare

They all do different things. Everybody is different, lives in different places.... What kind of images do they take? Again, different.
Weddings
Portrait studio
Fine art studio
Comercial studio
Fashion photography
Nature photography
Police photography
Tourism photography
Travel photography
Newspaper

Daily life of a photographer...each is different. Some do photography 100% some only 10% and work a regular job.

Pay varies - If you work at a portrait studio, newspaper or police job, you take what they pay. Most of the other jobs negotiate a price for each job before accepting it. Most anyone with the right equipment can do the above jobs. You might even be provided the equipment by the employer.

Wedding photography and even more so, the others require that you have "the eye" for it. If you do not have "the eye" for it, you will only produce snapshots, no matter the $ you invest in your gear. You must be able to produce "WOW!!!'' images.
Fashion photography has to make a new outfit irresistable. Commercial work has to make that new car or that new computer look fantastic. Your image has to sell that restaurant, that airline seat, and so on. Schooling can help you, but the best training is your own time. An old camera will help you the most. Experience is your best teacher. Take it out and use it. Take pictures, then go home, and discard the ones that are boring. If you cannot answer, "What was I taking a picture of?" by looking at the image, pitch it. You cannot expect Toyota or Coca-Cola to call you up for a snapshot image. In photography, your work, your images, every picture that leaves your hands, tells the world how good- or bad- your work is. Practice!!! Go take pictures!
Education? Know your equipment. Know your limitations. You will never be everything to everyone. Find some thing you love. Photograph it. Whether its trains, fish, architecture, or babies. Go to your library and read what others have to say, then find your own niche. Study for free at the library then go take pictures.

Tip 1: work on your spelling and capitalization.

Not kidding, by the way.