There are lots of aspects of being a working photographer that are important to your career, in this blog post I will go over the treats, advertising, copyright, ownership and my own experiencing with the industry.
Treats
Everyone owns a phone which can take better quality photos than most cameras.
The amount of non-professional photographers.
Those non-professional photographers not charging for shoots, making clients not wanting to pay for our work.
Management teams don’t hire photographers anymore
Advertising
Plenty of emails
Business cards
Sweets
Moo print
Helloprints
Websites
Word of mouth
Shooting for free – experience
Copyright
Copyright is the owner ship of my own images, therefore prohibiting anyone else using or selling my photos. For a company, I could give them a time frame for when they are allowed to use my images (normally from 4 weeks to 2 years)
Rights to my own images
Article 27, Human rights act
Ownership
Contracts (email, printed out)
Verbal contracts
Follow up all contracts
Send terms and conditions
My own experience
Being a young, in-experienced live music photographer, it is hard to be taken serious for a photographer. I know many other photographers who do not charge for taking photos, this damages photographers like myself who are trying to make am living.