Who is a Professional/Making Money?

Richard_16v

Richard_16v

Richard_16v

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Out of interest, who here is a professional photographer?

What do you do, weddings, modelling etc?

If your not a pro, how many of you have managed to make money selling photos to card makers etc?
 
how do you go about selling your work?

i'm not into whoring out my work and making as much money as i can from photography - but it would be nice to have a bit of extra cash to buy new toys :)
 
I've done some work for a school in my area - pictures for adverts in newspapers, for fliers, for a prospectus and for a Christmas card. Get paid by the hour for how long it takes me. Got about £100-150 for that so far I'd have thought - nothing massive.

Sold some prints through photobox. Nothing of any particular value, really.

Do quite a bit of advertising work for plays. Yet to be paid for the last one I did, so I'm not sure how much that got me. Did a poster, flyer and programme. Doing work for the Oxford Tryptich Theatre this year.

Certainly in the advertising, word of mouth helps a lot. I'm Head of Photography at the Oxford Student (one of the papers), which helps too. We were voted the Guardian's best weekly student paper in the country :cool:
 
Can't believe no-one has picked up on the spelling mistake in the title :o

I was reading a canon forum where someone had sold 3 photos to a card maker for $50 each and people said that he got ripped off, I would be honoured if someone ever thought my photos were good enough to buy :)

I know the wedding photographer is certainly making enough from me this year :eek:
 
PaulStat said:
really? that surprises me. How have you sold your stuff? Just via the internet? Or have you been to local galleries aswell etc.

I would think someone like yourself could make a fair bit more.
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That was from one job involving taking macro shots of the surface of rubber tiles, lol. I got it through my dad for the company he works for. Id like to make more from my work, but im not quite sure how to go about it. My website has a sales section, but relying on that on its own won't get many sales. Id like to have an exhibition sometime which might generate some sales, but it would also be quite costly to get things framed to start with. If anyone has any suggestions, im all ears. :)
 
Messiah Khan said:
That was from one job involving taking macro shots of the surface of rubber tiles, lol. I got it through my dad for the company he works for. Id like to make more from my work, but im not quite sure how to go about it. My website has a sales section, but relying on that on its own won't get many sales. Id like to have an exhibition sometime which might generate some sales, but it would also be quite costly to get things framed to start with. If anyone has any suggestions, im all ears. :)
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I'm sure you have lots of nice photos of local landscape etc. If you can find a local gallery which sell works by different artists/photographers these things can be very popular among the local people.

I'm currently compiling a small portfolio of pictures in and around the Bristol area, as a guy who owns one of these galleries voiced an interest in framing some of my pictures in his shop depending upon my costs (getting prints etc., I'm yet to complete this)
 
Messiah Khan said:
That was from one job involving taking macro shots of the surface of rubber tiles, lol. I got it through my dad for the company he works for. Id like to make more from my work, but im not quite sure how to go about it. My website has a sales section, but relying on that on its own won't get many sales. Id like to have an exhibition sometime which might generate some sales, but it would also be quite costly to get things framed to start with. If anyone has any suggestions, im all ears. :)
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Approach the people who would need photos. Get a VERY easy to browse (i.e. idiot-proof) portfolio website going - approach people who MIGHT need a photographer at some point.

Remember to be friendly and engaging, as well as interested in THEIR projects
 
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