Perhaps the biggest challenge you’ll come across as you move into professional photography is working out how much to charge for your services. This is crucial to your success. Much more so than your photography I would argue for the simple reason that if you’re not profitable you’re not going to succeed as a professional.
Before you even begin to think about how much to charge you need to understand two things: Continue reading Know your value, know your costs – Professional Photography »
I’m researching photogaphy books for a future article and want your feedback. Can you leave a comment below and let me know what you do and more importantly don’t like about most books on the subject? Continue reading What’s wrong with most photography books? »
Over the last few days I’ve been having an interesting conversation with a stock library about model releases.
They’re auditing all the images they carry to see if they’ve been correctly annotated. In particular with regard to the simple criteria “if there is a person in the shot you need to state whether you have a model release or not.” It’s easy to do. It’s just a check box at the keywording stage.
My query related to a corner case where there wasn’t a person in the image but rather a body part. Continue reading Is everything getting silly? »
A few days ago I met a photographer who told me an interesting story.
He’d set up a video camera to record the visitors to his stand at a local exhibition. He had all the gear – fancy camera, nice tripod, brand new shotgun mic. He even had a beautiful assistant to to around and visit the other exhibitors and do a short interview with each on their thoughts about the show.
But, there was a slight technical hitch. Continue reading All the gear and no idea… »
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. A very long while in fact. I want to write down my goals for the business and where I want to take it. It’s a difficult post to write because my ideas have been constantly changing and that’s a bad thing. It’s been leading to me chasing rainbows rather than concentrating on a longer term strategy. Continue reading Looking Forwards – Setting the Goalposts »
Hi, I'm Gavin the photographer.
I used to work in IT until a few years ago. I was under a lot of stress at work and getting really p*****d off. Then one day I chose to give it all up and follow a dream. Everyone I knew thought I was nuts, that just made me try harder :-)
I believe any photographer can do what I did, earn money from their photos, maybe even start their own business.
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