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Starting a photography business

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As someone who has worked as a freelance photographer, I’ve talked the talk and walked the walk about running my own photography business. I managed to stay afloat for 2 years, and then I couldn’t hack it anymore, realising I was more of a writer than a photographer. Fair dinkum, I’m now a journalist again, and I’m happy – especially because part of being a journalist means I have lots of time to work on writing projects, including my book, and Photocritic.

Thing is, Photocritic started off as a DIY photography blog, but has morphed into a ‘I’ll write about anything that interests me and is vaguely photography related’. I am not writing this for myself, though, I’m writing this for my readers. Because I love ya :-)

Anyway – My last poll (shown below) asked if you guys wanted to make money of your photos, and the vast majority (90%, in fact) wanted to or were already doing that. The big question, then: Would you be interested in a series of articles about aspects of running a photography business, or am I getting too far off target? Vote in the polls below, and help shape Photocritic into what you want it to be!

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This post, "Starting a photography business", is part of these categories: All articles, was posted by Haje Jan Kamps and saw the light of day on the 2nd of November 2006. I hope you liked it.

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By bobby on November 2nd, 2006 (permalink)

MUCH BETTER SITE! love it!

By Photo Advantage on April 15th, 2008 (permalink)

Great site. I look forward to more posts.

By Bill on May 16th, 2008 (permalink)

I would like to know more about being established in a foreign country

By Valdi on September 27th, 2008 (permalink)

Please help… :) I really need somebody to tell me how other studios got their 1st commercial customers in the 1st year of full time work. Do you start with cold calling…?

By Erick @ DSLR Photography Business Blog on May 6th, 2009 (permalink)

Haje: Not sure what came of this. I’d obviously be interested :).

Valdi: In addition to great resources here, I’d recommend two articles:

9 Steps to Start (or Jumpstart) Your Photography Business

…and other articles on DSLRBlog. It’s a fairly practical guide to starting and running a photography business.

 

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