Personal or Pro

abetarrush

Jus wanted to do this poll

Why do you take photos? For personal enjoyment, or do you make a living from taking photos?


V O T E

FinoBlad

Both

rymus

voted for personal enjoyment.. but really its a bit of both

Roen

Personal enjoyment only, although I have been paid for a couple of jobs in the past.

Morlar

I make some money but not enough to give up the day job - so voted for personal.

antifuse

Personal enjoyment... but if I *could* do it for a living, I totally would.

Clseeper

Only started recently, so it’s all personal. If someone wanted to buy one of my photos'?, prob the highest compliment I could receive.

masteroftherealm

Pro-Am kinda.
Get paid for a lotta gigs and stuff I shoot but thats still just to get in for free, the bitta cash is a bonus!

Ruu_Old

A bit of both really, more enjoyment though.

cotton

Personal enjoyment, nothing I love more than getting a good shot of one of my pets.
Have been paid for a few jobs.

Borderfox

Bit of both at the mo, but hopefully more for a living

abetarrush

masteroftherealm wrote:

Pro-Am kinda.
Get paid for a lotta gigs and stuff I shoot but thats still just to get in for free, the bitta cash is a bonus!

How do u get the passes to gigs?

masteroftherealm

abetarrush wrote:

How do u get the passes to gigs?

I know a lot of people in the irish music industury.
And never pass an oppertunity, talk to them get to know people. Ireland is all about who ya know

Fajitas!

Both!

And as regards "Ireland is all about who you know", It really really is...

abetarrush

But i thought you can apply to the Promotors if ur on assignment for a paper/mag or sumthin.......?

Fajitas!

Yeah, there's an alright article on www.photo.net about it if I remember correctly!

One of my best friends is a music promoter. Not often he gets big bands, but when he does, I'm first up.

Plenty of other friends of mine are musicians, they ask me to shoot a gig, another band there asks me to shoot'em too...Word travels on! You get random Emails asking you to shoot! Get yourself a Myspace account too, it's pretty handy for music networking!

masteroftherealm

abetarrush wrote:

But i thought you can apply to the Promoortors if ur on assignment for a paper/mag or sumthin.......?

Not if you know the band
Promoters are hard to work with better to be shooting for the band than them.
Dont just go for the big ones, start with the small gigs, that way youll be known. Do it for free at first, get your name known as bring decent. Be nice to the right people

masteroftherealm

Fajitas! wrote:

Plenty of other friends of mine are musicians, they ask me to shoot a gig, another band there asks me to shoot'em too...Word travels on! You get random Emails asking you to shoot! Get yourself a Myspace account too, it's pretty handy for music networking!

Yeah those trains of gigs leading to other gigs rock when they happen!

Fajitas!

masteroftherealm wrote:

Yeah those trains of gigs leading to other gigs rock when they happen!

Without a doubt!

As Master said, start free. Be careful not to undersell yourself though, or you'll be looked at forever as a "Cheap Fella"...Which if you want shiny new lenses and fully legal versions of CS2, just won't work!

masteroftherealm

Fajitas! wrote:

Without a doubt!

As Master said, start free. Be careful not to undersell yourself though, or you'll be looked at forever as a "Cheap Fella"...Which if you want shiny new lenses and fully legal versions of CS2, just won't work!

Yeah thats the hard part, but try work out who to ask for cash and who to do for free (10 more gigs is more important than getting paid for the first )

abetarrush

Cheers! they dont teach ye dat in college

[i think]


Well, I have me first job
My mate from Canada is playin a gig in Doran's in September and asked me t take photos on the night, some good ones for his site

I know others that do a lot of gigs so ill ask them too

Fajitas!

That's the way!

Good luck!

masteroftherealm

abetarrush wrote:

Cheers! they dont teach ye dat in college

[i think]


Well, I have me first job
My mate from Canada is playin a gig in Doran's in September and asked me t take photos on the night, some good ones for his site

I know others that do a lot of gigs so ill ask them too

Nice one you work quick!
Tell us how it goes!