Monthly Archive for December, 2007Page 2 of 10

The more I learn about the busi­ness of pho­tog­ra­phy, the less I want to be part of it. I’ve said I’m get­ting out of it be­fore and ended up get­ting back into it, but now I’m pretty sure it’s not go­ing to be my ca­reer. (If you’re in­ter­ested in be­com­ing a pro­fes­sional photo­grapher, you’re at the wrong blog. Try these in­stead: A Photo Editor, Photo Business News, Photopreneur.)

First of all, I don’t like be­ing a sales­man, but pro­fes­sional pho­tog­ra­phy (stock, com­mer­cial, wed­ding, doesn’t mat­ter) is more of a sales job than any­thing else. That’s some­thing I should have known from the very be­gin­ning. I have enough pre­vi­ous ex­pe­ri­ence in sales to know that to be good at it, it has to be ma­jor part of your life, 24/​7, and I’m not will­ing to make that kind of com­mit­ment (or sac­ri­fice, ac­tu­ally). In fact I’m pretty much an­ti­so­cial so sell­ing my­self re­ally goes against my nature.

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