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Question: Kinda stupid about famous photographers!?
how can i become one like Ryan Mcginely!?

i'm not even fame hungry, i just want to make a living off of it!. thats a better way to put it!.

I just really want to do this with my life - get paid for advertisments, ,portraits, and music photography!.

how can i do it!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
You must shoot constantly, every day!. Make mistakes and learn from them!. Soon you'll develop your own style and determine what you want to shoot!. You cannot shoot everything, find your niche and develop it!.

I read this quote on http://www!.aphotoeditor!.com just the other day!.

Are there myths that you have to dispel when talking to younger photographers about the business that come up over and over again!?!.

There are so many things!.

One of the main things is that most people don’t make it quickly!. They think that If you are meant to be successful in photography it should just take a few years and the obvious stories are about Irving Penn, or David LaChappelle!. Larry Fink is a great example of the alternate narrative and one of the things I really admire about his career is that in a way his name became known to most people 30 years into his career and that’s kind of amazing!. The young photographers tend to know about the people who made it in 5 years but that’s really, really unusual!. If you go look at the top 100 photographers working today most of them made it in 10 to 15 years not in under 5!. I think that’s really important to know!. People get into it and in 3 years they’re like “I’m getting good feedback but I’m not getting a ton of work!.” It took me 12 years before people started saying to me “wow, you’ve made it!.”

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are you in school!? if you are in high school, take photography classes if they are offered!. then go to an art school that teaches photography!. take lots of pictures and enter the best in photography contests!. read a lot of books about photography!. good luck, it is a very hard field to do good in!.Www@QuestionHome@Com