Building and promoting your photography business with Facebook is probably THE first place to begin on social media. It’s extremely versatile and popular! Understand how to spread the word of your business, engage with your audience and people will start sharing and interacting quicker than you think.
This should be rule number one for paid photographers “keep your raw files” because why would you do all hard work just to let it all go? It makes little sense to go to all the effort to producing these images, for someone else to basically unlock your hidden work and do what they please.
When your photography career depends on creating a consistent and sustainable level of income, you’ve got to understand some basics, so let’s help you out! These 5 tips will get you started on some ideas you may have and want to build on or just to explore new avenues.
Even professional photographers make mistakes, sometimes albeit unintentional. The reasons behind these can be down to excitement or complacency – both opposites of the other! Let’s look more into this odd phenomenon.
Turning the corner of enthusiast to professional Photographer is one that should be approached with detail and understanding exactly what that means. There’s a great deal at stake when making good first impressions, so ensure you’ve got your checklist down to an art.
As photographers, protecting your images is of real importance to most of us. Ensure you’ve done all you can to keep your images “yours”.
In a photographer’s line of work, there are quite a few things that can go wrong. Not to be negative about the situation, but as with any other business, you should be prepared to deal with certain “sketchy” situations and set yourself some boundaries which you’ll never cross. Having boundaries and knowing exactly how far away […]
Fashion, portraiture, documentary, sport and commercial. If I were to give you one of these genres, you would almost certainly be able to give me the name of one of its most famous photographers. These photographic careers can create superstars, global names like Annie Leibovitz, David Bailey and Don McCullen. Of course below these genres […]
Photography contests aren’t for everyone, that’s a given. And rightfully so–not everyone wants to parade their work around in front of a bunch a strangers who have no obligation to protect your feelings or ego, nor does everyone desire to put in all the work it takes to actually make a successful entry into the […]
Among photographers, the idea of working for “exposure” (i.e.. for free) is a hot button topic. It seems that every other week there’s an example of somebody being asked to shoot for free for some multi-million dollar company or other. Take heart though, as it seems this is not just a problem we in the […]
