I am looking to start a Photography Business! Needs advice on how and where to start?

I'm sorry.... you want to start a photography business but you don't know where to start???





My advise is to go away and have a long long think about it rather than coming on here asking for the very basics.





Photography is one of the things that gets put on hold in a recession so it is not the best time to start a photography business - especially if you don't even know where to start.





That plus there a number of different businesses within photography.





Sorry to be harsh but you should go back and think again.


1I am looking to start a Photography Business! Needs advice on how and where to start?
Professional photography can seem like a very attractive lifestyle. A professional freelance photographer has no employer to answer to, can (to a certain extent) choose their own hours, and can decide upon which jobs they take on and which they do not. This is all, clearly, in an ideal world. In reality, the professional photography business can be extraordinarily demanding, both financially and in terms of hours worked. Added to the existing difficulties of self-employment, this can pose some serious headaches.


The field of photography is wide and competitive. There are a wide variety of players out there, from the part-timers freelancing for the local weekly paper to a few superstars who can command fees of $10,000 per day.





As a home-based photographer, you can work on a broad range of subject area, from fashion, portraits, underwater, weddings, product photography and others. You can be a freelance photojournalist or a publication photographer.





While there are various types of photographic activity, professional photography can be broadly divided into two categories: assignment photography and stock photography.





i suggest talking to someone like a biness link company who can give you fee advice for all the other like finance and finding clients. but before you put any money into bying equipment i suggest you advertise in papers internet local photographic shops. and so on, its a very difficult thing to brake into and when you do there a thousands of aspiring photographers, and you have to have something they dont have to get ahead of them.





2 examples of different kinds of photography, that you could consider in this ecomical downfall are.


Assignment photography -is any photography commissioned by a client. It covers advertising of products, portraits, weddings, school functions and other images shot on assignment. Most photographers spend their entire career shooting on assignments, as it provides lower financial risk for the photographer. You know that you will get paid, either before the event or after the contract has been satisfactorily completed.





On the other hand, stock photography is photography shot on speculation, in advance of being sold. In going after a ';perfect air balloon'; shot, photographers may take several dozens, if not hundreds of shots, of air balloons that could be made available at a fair price for generic uses. These ';surplus photos'; can then be used in a multitude of ways, in newspaper articles, brochures, calendars, web sites, and many more. Instead of commissioning a photographer, many commercial and educational establishments simply buy stock photographs at a lower-cost.





Your first step, therefore, is to determine whether you will specialize or diversify. If you specialize, for example as a fashion photographer, you need to strive to be the best in your field. If you work in several areas, you need to be competent in each area or even outstanding. You can either exclusively shoot on assignment or stock, or like many other photographers, combine the two. When on assignment, some photographers take the opportunity to shoot pictures of their surroundings or events that they put in their own stock collectionI am looking to start a Photography Business! Needs advice on how and where to start?
You're not going anywhere without a website. Learn Dreamweaver, flash, etc, or hire someone to get you a nice, fancy design, and you're off to a start.


Second, you're going to need decent equipment. If you're shooting film, it won't matter as long as you know what you're doing and use pro-quality film. Digital, you're going to need a decent camera. Doesn't have to be professional, you could use a Nikon D80/90 or a Canon 40D. At least 10MP, and use a program like Photoshop CS4 or Lightroom at least. Get a softbox, halo light, slave some flashes, if you're looking at an indoor studio. Muslin backdrops are cheap and easy to manipulate.





Tell your friends about your business, tell your family, tell your friends' family.


Post on craigslist- it's free!
Why is it whenever a stripper gets a camera she thinks shes a photographer?