another Ryan Mcginley
>>4264729What is your definition of making it? Do you want to be a successful commercial photographer making editorial work for publication? Do you want to be photojournalist? Do you want to be an artist that sells work in galleries? Do you want to be a commercial photographer shooting weddings, portraits, etc?
We're also going through another major and likely rough transition in photography. AI is going to highly degrade the stock photo market and the ubiquity of cameras and the increasing excellence of their automatic modes has reduced other areas of bread and butter work.