riddell
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What percentage of those are actually even remotely professional?
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What percentage of those are actually even remotely professional?
I simply cannot fathom doing this! I know I still suck after about a year and a half. But that doesn't seem to bother a lot of people. Do people just not tell them?!Does it really matter how many "photographers" live within a certain region? Does it really matter if 99% are amateurs playing professional. None of it makes any difference at all. I've stopped being concerned about what the next person is shooting, how much they are charging, or if they are any good, most aren't.
Having a name listed in a phone book, or online that states photographer means zero. I had posted earlier about a guy that handed me his business card and upon looking at his web site found that most of it didn't load. I sent him a message and he fixed some of it, the pictures he had were terrible, all the mistakes of a complete amateur, and he told me he had been shooting for 5 years. This all just falls under the get business cards, create a web site and magically they are professional, looking for work, without the skills. It's not new.
I know I don't but I am not even listed and don't do this for a living.Try to get a idea of who is who in the area. I was just curious of the types of work people were doing out there more than anything to see if there was something I might like to try. which I am not a friendly wedding type of person so...Of those 133, what would be very interesting to know is how many have insurance, the appropriate licenses and paperwork, and pay their business taxes. I suspect if you use that as your benchmark, the number will go down dramatically!
Most of them probably should go out of business actually. Most of photography is the development in markets toward a service economy from the previous manufacturing. And as such most service positions are more hard pressed to find their merit but rather seem to take footing on failing positions of necessity. Photography perhaps one of the worst near entirely dependent on consumer and market ideology gone amiss. Combine that with the array of equipment in the united states available and the consumerist perspective it is no wonder a entire market in photography equipment and sales has derived from near nothing.I hope some of them get knocked out... not really. well maybe. But really, I hope this runs its course, people wanting cheap over quality photos. But I don't know how many working photographers in the meantime will lose work, jobs, their livelihood, if they haven't already. I'd planned in high school to major in journalism, in recent years am sure glad I went in a different direction.
I did a quick search and looked up the city that I'm on the fringe of and found well, I didn't count how many. Searched my little town, there's one photographer listed in the area. And apparently the earth tilts one way and then the other on a regular basis here... it's funny but it's not, that people would go into business with that and I guess find people to pay for it.
I think a lot of people eventually will go out of business, if they even get that far, because they won't end up making that much money, find out it can be a lot of time and work, they'll get tired of it, dealing with unhappy customers, etc. etc. I hope.