On 4/25/05, Powell Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any job becomes work. Working as a pro can be enjoyable if you can have > some control and artistic input. When I have worked full time as a > photographer expectations and controls always made most picture taking > boring and repetitive. > > I learned to dislike weddings working as a wedding photographer. There are > only so many ways to take a picture of the Mayor shaking hands I discovered > a news photog, and about half of those will not fly with the editor. > Working as a news photographer was often fun and definitely better than a > real job but I hardly took a picture for years after leaving that vocation. > > As far as talent and success go, they have little to do with each other. > If you can take well exposed and focused images (not hard these days) you > can be a success if you are good at self promotion and marketing. > > my $0.02 Cdn
That's pretty much the way I might end up if I ever became a pro, or at least that's my fear. Rather moot, though, as it just ain't gonna happen. OTOH, I ride a bike for a living. It was my hobby before I took it on as a job. I still love it. I often go on long (100 to 200 km) rides on weekends (but not in bad weather <g>). If I'm off my bike for a couple of days I start to get antsy (and depressed - I think I'm addicted to all those hormones or whatever). I guess it's not really analogous to a "real" job though, is it? The enjoyment factor certainly what has kept me in it for all these years - it sure ain't the money! <LOL> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
