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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 20:25:32 No.4131783 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>4131785 >>4131797 >>4132472

I 'm unemployed 3 months every year due to the nature of my work.
I would like to pursue photography ya side gig.
I' m currently learning photoshop. I take better pictures with my phone than the average Joe since I understand how aperture, shutter speed and Iso work together to create a beautiful image.
I have $3000 worth of professional gears in my card ready to be checked out.
I'm here for you to convince me or advice me against making a bad decision.
Can you share your story with me and help me decide?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 20:27:09 No.4131785 Report

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>>4131783
Worst decision of your life.
Yourr gonna work for free for years before anyone even considers commishioning you.

Go work landscaping or construction instead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 20:47:57 No.4131792 Report

Quoted By: >>4131801

Take photos of landscapes and open a print on demand etsy/amazon store. That's all you can do that is not a living nightmare. Photography is an (early life) kind of career.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 20:57:13 No.4131797 Report

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>>4131783
>2012, december, xmas time
>18yo
>wannabe photog since childhood
>$4,800 saved up from bdays and part time jobs
>everyone talking about canon 6d
>fuckit.jpg
>spend all of my money on 6d+24-105 f4, flash, strobe, tripod, bag, batteries, etc...
>happiestiveeverbeen.png
>take pictures of friends, girls at school and family 24/7 for a year
>2014
>instagram suddenly blows up, whole school of girls start asking me to take pictures for them
>after a few weeks get the idea to start charging them 5-20 bucks for shoots
>build my skill and portfolio
>2014, december, xmas time
>spend all my money on more lenses, strobes, diffusers and a bunch of other shit
>make a cringe website
>go all over facebook, model sites and instagram contacting random women if they need a photog
>few months pass
>see that i started earning decent money
>drop out of school
>suddenly start getting clients/women contacting me, don't have to look for them myself and spam on facebook, insta and model sites
>finally get a bomb portfolio
>update my website
>even more women start calling me
>have to set up online booking, because too many texts/calls
>...
>...
>2023
>look at bank account
>$87k saved up
>bestdecisionofmylife.jpg

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:07:40 No.4131801 Report

Quoted By: >>4131806 >>4131807

>>4131792
not really, thats bull, i started at 28, quit my job, spent like 9 grand on gear. didnt really have to quit my job but i had a fuckton of money saved up and i wanted a break and some free time while pursuing my actual passion, so i ended up burning into my savings for a few months while going through social media looking for women and models that need a photographer so that i can build a portfolio and get the word around the town that i exist. it took only a year, maybe a year and a half until my new business picked up and i started getting more than one client a week. im 32 now and im easily pulling 3,5k to 5k eur a month and thats after paying the rent for the studio that im renting.

(3-5k EUR is a fuckton of money in my country. its like earning 10k USD a month in the US.)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:16:14 No.4131806 Report

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>>4131801
Yup, yup, yup... I started doing weddings because of a friend. I was like 25? 26? I was helping him around at first before I got my own thing going on. Absolutely fucking hated that shit, it was so stressful and annoying at the time but as time went by, I started to like it and enjoy it... Especially the money... Money changed everything for me. The quality of my life improved like tenfold, because I was doing manual labor jobs before that and was often unemployed for a month or two at a time. Anyhow, I'm also from a shithole country but book enough weddings, to the point where I jumped from being lower class, up into upper middle class territory. 35 now, have my own house, my own car, saved up good amount of money, I can afford basically anything I want (not literally but you know what I mean.) Life is good at the moment...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:16:19 No.4131807 Report

Quoted By: >>4131808 >>4131816 >>4131820

>>4131797
>>4131801
Are you near big population centres?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:17:45 No.4131808 Report

Quoted By: >>4131824

>>4131807
I'm the wedding anon, I'm located like 15 minutes away from the main town.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:26:59 No.4131816 Report

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>>4131807
yeah i live in the centre of the capital but one of my main selling points is that i am able to and willing to shoot on-location and travel anywhere for a shoot as long as its a 6-7 hour drive or less, mainly so that I keep myself in profit aka. so I don't spend more money on gas and travel than I earn. The longest I've driven for a shoot was like 9 hours to the coastal region but that's because it was a full portfolio shoot for the girl and I charged 500 EUR for it (was there shooting for 5 hours with her) I should have probably charged more because we ended up with 21 portfolio shots but i didnt want to be an asshole

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:31:22 No.4131820 Report

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>>4131807
greentext anon here, back then i was living in bologna italy, in a place exacty halfway between florence and milan, now im jumping between milan and florence, got apartments in both cities

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:33:54 No.4131824 Report

Quoted By: >>4131837

>>4131808
i wanted to try weddings for the money but i dont know if i could handle it im not really religious in fact im kind of annoyed by the whole concept of marriage and so the whole religious ceremony would just add to my annoyance, plus all the stress and planning and bullshit you have to deal with as a wedding photographer...

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 22:03:27 No.4131837 Report

Quoted By: >>4131841

>>4131824
>im not really religious in fact im kind of annoyed
Imagine how annoying it would be if you WERE religious considering nobody takes marriage seriously anymore, and how you would be stuck shooting soft core pornography of the bride.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 22:15:02 No.4131841 Report

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>>4131837
I imagine you'd be lucky to shoot brides like that, most would be FatWifeTM no?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2023 17:21:02 No.4132260 Report

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Thanks everyone I went ahead and purchased canon 6 D mark II with few lenses and accessories. I 'm fully invested now and really want to make this work. Wish me luck!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2023 22:32:01 No.4132472 Report

Quoted By: >>4132494

>>4131783
trying to be a photographer is like trying to be a painter or a youtuber or an actor at this point, there isn't very much demand, and the average professional photographer will scrape by their entire lives making a very volatile ~40k per year

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2023 22:47:56 No.4132494 Report

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>>4132472
You’re right, everyone should just give up and work at McDonald’s like you.

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