For years i have wanted to change my career but the past couple of months have made me realise that i need to do it sooner rather than later - but what to do....?
I have been taking photos for years %26amp; have really got into it this past year %26amp; would love to take it further.
I know it will be one heck of a hard slog %26amp; i have sooo much to learn, but what do you think of the photos i have been taking? Are there any that stand out for you? Anything i could be doing better? Any areas i need to work on? etc etc.. Basically do you like them or not?!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/little_al/4鈥?/a> is probably my favourite recent photo i%26#039;ve put up %26amp; i would really appreciate it if you took the time to explore my photos %26amp; let me know what you think.
P.s. beyond page 8 of my photo-stream is getting into quite old stuff, before i was taking it more seriously, but i don%26#039;t expect you to delve that far back unless you are really bored! ;)
I%26#039;m not a huge fan of the letter-boxing either before you comment, but i have found it helps them stand out a bit when i add them to groups.
A decent flash is on the way which will open up a whole new world that i haven%26#039;t done much work in yet....
If you want to add comments to the pictures, add them as favourites, etc you are more than welcome|||Very nice work... and getting better as you go. I really can%26#039;t address if it%26#039;s %26quot;good enough%26quot; though. Telling someone they should peruse a career in photography is like telling someone to become a professional musician or actor. It takes a lot more than skill and talent to make it.
My advice is to gauge your level of passion because that will be your reward if it turns out the breaks don%26#039;t fall your way.|||Yes, your photos are good enough! Are they good enough to serve as the basis for a new career? In my humble opinion, yes they are. The thing is, there are SO many factors that would determine your success that are NOT based on your talent as a photographer that it scares me to think about it. Look into the business and promotion aspects of being a photographer and see if you can learn more about that.
I actually like the letterbox effect to help the contrast in your images. It%26#039;s better than the white provided by Flickr. I may steal your idea and try a few this way. It%26#039;s also a nice place to sign your work, as long as you are not really concerned about using a secure watrmark.
You know who you remind me of? One of my favorites on Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpn/
If you%26#039;ve never heard of him, just Google the name. He%26#039;s certainly made a decent living from photography.|||They%26#039;re good, yes. But in a career where it%26#039;s so easy to be good, you have to be exceptional. They are not exceptional. The reason being that I%26#039;ve seen them all before, with a few exceptions. They%26#039;re a little cliche. You%26#039;re missing the creativity that one needs to excel.|||i like the look of your images and i think they have artistic value. but don%26#039;t quit your day job yet...you need to find a market for your work. and that takes time and schmoozing with gallery people and other venues and getting to know your way around that social structure. bear in mind that photography is a hard sell these days with everyone having a cell phone and point and shoot digital and they think they can do as well as any professional.
you seem to have a well grounded idea of what lies ahead. keep at it and don%26#039;t quit.
a friend of mine, daniel coeburn, is selling his fine art landscape photography in a few galleries now, but it took some years, and i don%26#039;t think he has given up his day job just yet either.|||You do very nice work!
If you plan to change directions in your life there are always stumbling blocks that come up but if you take it slow at first, nothing is insurmountable.
I%26#039;m a carpenter by trade but twenty eight years ago I stepped away from that to help my wife in her fledgling herb-growing business, I enjoyed the change and now I%26#039;m back at sawing wood again and loving it again.
Good luck!|||Okay. First they look copied. Hint a name and c in a circle at the bottom. People who copy other peoples pictures like you have i see. That is theft because you have copied someones pictures.
Sorry but you%26#039;re not meant to copy pictures!|||Hi, I wish my photos were as good!
I am the Exec Director of a UK charity. We produce 43K calender each year that are distributed over the UK.
We use a company called Alvey and Towers http://www.alveyandtowers.com The preeminent commercial transport photo image library in the UK for some of our pictures. I suggest you contact them, as your photos are very good, and see if they can find you some out lets for them.
Please let me know how you get on. I have also started to make my photography into a profession, but in a different way.
Regards,|||As I am interested in steam loco%26#039;s I have only looked at them. I think they are very good. The B %26amp; W give the pics a very surreal and ghostly feel. well done.|||Beautiful work. Your images are fabulous, and I don%26#039;t say that often here on Y!A.
Making a living depends on so much more than talent, though.
Good luck at it if you decide to go on.|||You have some really nice shots there, trouble is as a Pro you have to do this every time, in difficult lighting, to a deadline, in different genre%26#039;s the list goes on.
You%26#039;ll need the equipment for every eventuality and be able to use it effectively autonomously, without having to think about it, the same way you drive your car. You have to know what your going to get before you press the shutter.
Only time will give you this, going on a college course will speed the learning up, as will serving as a %26#039;gopher%26#039; for a good photographer.
Talking of flash try Dave Hobby%26#039;s Strobist site here
http://www.strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02鈥?/a>
Look in the 101 archive, it is a free, course on flash photography using relatively cheap manual flashgun(s).
Good Luck with your dream, it is probably the way to go for you, your pictures show that, but the hard work starts here.
Chris|||Your photos are great just keep doing what your doing. Try something different Pysiograms are quite simple and each photo is unique|||In a word? Yes! As others have said though although they may be marketable, getting into that market is hard. There is no doubt you have photographic talent, but you are entering a competitive field.
Best advice? Probably to get your stuff out %26amp; around your local galleries to start with. Set up a GOOD QUALITY website where you can sell your work. Do you want to get into portraiture/studio work? If so there again may be more of a local market than perhaps landscape type work.
The flash will open up a whole new area of creativity - I can advise visiting David Hobby%26#039;s site at Strobist for more info on off camera flash;
http://strobist.blogspot.com/
I will add you as a contact on Flickr %26amp; see how you develop. I will try to comment on your shots but I do not always have the time to comment on all my contacts shots I like (more%26#039;s the pity, lol!).
Oh and FlowerP regarding your comment about copyright - I would%26#039;ve thought it was fairly obvious that little owl has copyrighted his OWN work - that is his copyright not someone else%26#039;s.|||These are very good photographs, immeasurably better than the stuff that usually gets posted here under similar questions. There is no doubt that you have the right talent and ability but there is a big leap from being talented to making a living full-time doing photography. This isn%26#039;t intended to discourage you but you have to be very realistic about this. Love your stuff, though, and I say that very very rarely.|||Right I%26#039;m going to be philosphical here: patience. As Aesop wrote, the tortoise won the race in the end.
Don%26#039;t stop going forwards, but don%26#039;t race ahead in a rash manner. I have no doubts you%26#039;ll make it, but patience my friend.
