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01/16/2007 06:37:27 AM · #1 |
I was just wondering how many of you guys are professionals, by that i mean photography is your living or your trying to make it your living. Just nosey i guess.
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01/16/2007 07:41:40 AM · #2 |
| there are a few, but unfortunately, they're usually too busy to be around as much as they'd like ;-) |
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01/16/2007 07:45:33 AM · #3 |
| Just starting here - I know it won't be a full living yet, but someday... |
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01/16/2007 08:00:59 AM · #4 |
| working on it, possibly come this summer/fall. |
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01/16/2007 08:05:42 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by skiprow:
there are a few, but unfortunately, they're usually too busy to be around as much as they'd like ;-) |
Not all of us are out to shoot EVERYTHING and can spend plenty of time here :-)
Me thinks Skip is a bit tooo motivated. LOL
Pro here... by the definition of the OP at least Photography is what I do for a living Doesn't necessarily mean that I'm good :-)
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01/16/2007 08:29:19 AM · #6 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Me thinks Skip is a bit tooo motivated. LOL
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Nah... he's just that good
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Message edited by author 2007-01-16 13:29:39. |
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01/16/2007 09:03:15 AM · #7 |
If a pro is someone who makes money at photography then there are lots of "pros" on here.
If a pro is someone who makes all their money with photography then there are a few on here. |
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01/16/2007 09:39:10 AM · #8 |
Would you like to schedule a portrait session? :)
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01/16/2007 09:42:42 AM · #9 |
i make all my money doing photography
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01/16/2007 09:43:12 AM · #10 |
To answer the original question, I'M a pro, assuming a retired pro counts. I earned my living as an architectural and sometime editorial photographer.
R.
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01/16/2007 09:50:51 AM · #11 |
Originally posted by Megatherian:
If a pro is someone who makes money at photography then there are lots of "pros" on here.
If a pro is someone who makes all their money with photography then there are a few on here. |
And someone who spends all their money on photography... anti-pro? :-)
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01/16/2007 10:30:34 AM · #12 |
Originally posted by mase:
I was just wondering how many of you guys are professionals, by that i mean photography is your living or your trying to make it your living. Just nosey i guess.
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I think you need to define "living" for some of the folks on here.
I have 2 jobs currently my main job that I have done for 17 years and I work for a weekly newspaper doing freelance/assignment work. So I do earn money doing it, but I make my living(ie pay my bills and support my family) doing something else. I actually have a 3rd job but am currently cutting back on it because 3 is just too much right now.
MattO
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01/16/2007 10:33:14 AM · #13 |
I'm 100% amateur, and proud of it :)
With "amateur" I mean: "A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons." |
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01/16/2007 10:45:14 AM · #14 |
Originally posted by ursula:
I'm 100% amateur, and proud of it :)
With "amateur" I mean: "A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons." |
Me too. Professional photographer would be the last thing I'd want to be. I'd have to find a new hobby then, take up golf again or something.
WORD HISTORY When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863 Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, âI am no amateur of these melons,â she used amateur in a sense unfamiliar to us. That sense, âa lover, an admirer,â is, however, clearly descended from the senses of the word's ultimate Latin source, amātor, âlover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective,â and from its Latin-derived French source, amateur, with a similar range of meanings. First recorded in English in 1784 with the sense in which Mrs. Atkinson used it, amateur is found in 1786 with a meaning more familiar to us, âa person who engages in an art, for example, as a pastime rather than as a profession,â a sense that had already developed in French. Given the limitations of doing something as an amateur, it is not surprising that the word is soon after recorded in the disparaging sense we still use to refer to someone who lacks professional skill or ease in performance.
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01/16/2007 11:39:17 AM · #15 |
Originally posted by Gordon:
Originally posted by ursula:
I'm 100% amateur, and proud of it :)
With "amateur" I mean: "A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons." |
Me too. Professional photographer would be the last thing I'd want to be. I'd have to find a new hobby then, take up golf again or something.
WORD HISTORY When Mrs. T.W. Atkinson remarked in her 1863 Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, âI am no amateur of these melons,â she used amateur in a sense unfamiliar to us. That sense, âa lover, an admirer,â is, however, clearly descended from the senses of the word's ultimate Latin source, amātor, âlover, devoted friend, devotee, enthusiastic pursuer of an objective,â and from its Latin-derived French source, amateur, with a similar range of meanings. First recorded in English in 1784 with the sense in which Mrs. Atkinson used it, amateur is found in 1786 with a meaning more familiar to us, âa person who engages in an art, for example, as a pastime rather than as a profession,â a sense that had already developed in French. Given the limitations of doing something as an amateur, it is not surprising that the word is soon after recorded in the disparaging sense we still use to refer to someone who lacks professional skill or ease in performance. |
Who among us doesn't shed a little tear when we read Mrs A's convoluted prose? We'll never see her like again! My question, they grew/grow melons on the steppes? |
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01/16/2007 11:41:24 AM · #16 |
Originally posted by ursula:
I'm 100% amateur, and proud of it :)
With "amateur" I mean: "A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons." |
I wanna become a professional bum, amateur photographer. :-)
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01/16/2007 11:42:42 AM · #17 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by ursula:
I'm 100% amateur, and proud of it :)
With "amateur" I mean: "A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons." |
I wanna become a professional bum, amateur photographer. :-) |
You know, you could do it. :-) |
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01/16/2007 11:50:27 AM · #18 |
| I am struggling to gain amateur status! |
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01/16/2007 12:11:05 PM · #19 |
| Professional student of photography. With all the photography courses available, I expect to be preoccupied for a long time. |
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01/16/2007 12:34:13 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by fotomann_forever:
Originally posted by ursula:
I'm 100% amateur, and proud of it :)
With "amateur" I mean: "A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons." |
I wanna become a professional bum, amateur photographer. :-) |
Hmmm and I thought you had already achieved that. :-)
MattO
Edit to add left out smiley
Message edited by author 2007-01-16 17:36:29.
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01/16/2007 12:36:56 PM · #21 |
Originally posted by MattO:
Hmmm and I thought you had already achieved that.
MattO |
I'm just amateur status as a bum. :-) Working on it though. Just got to figure out how to get paid well to sit on my arse.
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01/16/2007 12:39:28 PM · #22 |
| I make more at my other job but I have been sworn in as a Pro by John Shaw. |
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01/16/2007 01:53:29 PM · #23 |
*Shyly raises hand*
Im a pro too |
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01/16/2007 01:57:27 PM · #24 |
70% photography specilized niche
30% graphic design
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01/17/2007 01:52:40 AM · #25 |
I am not a pro yet, but am hoping to be in the near future. Just starting to build up my portfolio, so that I have something decent to begin with.
Zymmetrical.com
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