Amateur to Professional photographer - can you do it? should you do it?
Amateur to pro. Becoming a professional photographer - can you do it? should you do it?
Keith Cooper talks about some of the questions he's regularly asked by people wanting to become a pro photographer. What do you need to learn? - what kit is best? What else should you do
00:00 Start
00:15 Introduction
00:42 What do you need to learn
01:24 What clients want/need
02:30 It comes back to profit
03:42 That's a nice photo
03:43 Do you have a sustainable market
04:19 Why selling a photo is not a business
06:10 What courses should you do - if any
09:15 What camera do you need
10:36 Studio eqiopment?
11:10 Understanding the technology
11:35 Feeding your family
12:50 So you want to be a landscape photographer
14:20 What else can you do
14:36 Expanding your business - our commercial work
15:44 A specialism - tilt/shift lenses
17:03 More business resources
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