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Earn income as a people photographer

Earn income as a people photographer

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Earn income as a people photographer

So far in this course we've talked about a lot. We've talked about working with light, composition, connecting with people. We've even looked at a live demonstration shoot. Well next what I want to do is talk about how we can take all that we've learned and the passion that we have for capturing images and convert that into some type of profit. Well one of the ways that you can start to make money or income as a photographer is to think about different types of photography that you might do. In people photography, there's so many different ways to make an income. Here I have a few categories just to get you thinking about a couple of different ideas. One is editorial. What editorial means is doing assignment work for magazines. Now a lot of this work tends to be really, really fun, but it doesn't pay super well. To give you a sense on that, I was recently hired by a publication which was an alumni magazine for a college on the East Coast and they hired me to photograph someone who…

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