Saturday, March 8, 2008

Does anyone know how you can get a job as a freelance photographer


Does anyone know how you can get a job as a freelance photographer?
I am stuck in my own Business going no where so Im looking at trying to get a freelance job.
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http://www.istockphoto.com/ Thats probably your best bet. Photos of models tend to make more than landscape just a heads up.
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Errrr, do you actually know what freelance means? It means you go out and find your own jobs basically. It can be a case of going and finding commissions or taking images and hawking them around publishers to try and get them published for money.
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Freelancers find gigs, workers find jobs. As a freelancer, you work for 4 hours or less to a few months at the outside. Most gigs will be for a day, maybe two. "stuck in my own Business going no where" ?? What business are you in now? If it's not in photography, then when you do get into photography, welcome to a whole new level of "pain". Photography is one of the most competitive fields out there, so if you're not doing good in business currently, photography is probably not a good direction to go in. If you are in photography now, it's decision time. Either branch out, and try stock, a different field, or try to do a marketing and PR blitz in your current field. Or, it's time to get out of photography, and try a completely different business or find a job. Do you have a business plan? If you have a photography business, that is essentially what you have to do, go out and find a freelance gig every day. If you're not working one day, you're out looking for work, or marketing yourself to attract more work. Jobs as photographers are not common. Some companies will hire a staff photographer. At around 1,000 employees, you need someone to document visits, products, etc. Zoos, theme parks and tourist attractions will sometimes have a staff photographer, sometimes just use freelance. There's always the event and chain store portrait photographers, but McDonalds pays almost as much



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