Here's How To Make Money With Your Street Photography Skills
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2022
- How To Make Money With Your Street Photography Skills?
It's a myth that you can't make money with your street photography skills.
I will explain how I've been able to go from corporate slave to full-time photographer and how you can too.
Hope you enjoy.
Peace,
JP
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How am I only seeing this now 😂 such a plethora of information!
Just the fact you went from a corporate slave to a full time photographer is inspiring enough to push us all to follow our passions! Thanks for sharing.
Ps. the French accent was hilarious 😂
Ahaha I was a true corporate slave, thought I could succeed there as a round peg squeezing into a round hole. Glad I bounced outta there ahaha annnnnd that you liked the french accent! Thanks for the support Mansour!!
...and very realistic!!
Sneaky Tip @ 11:02 = Killer. That's a big brain JP play, excellent practical tips for anybody looking to make the transition to full-time purpose!
Thanks for all the great insights and advice! 😃
You are more than Welcome Daniel- If you have any questions, feel free to ping me a message over on IG
Great advice!
Glad you think so - Thanks for commenting Ron!
Great advice James, Thanks for being so open & sharing this real world advice
Thank you dude! Hope it helps the gang on their journeys! Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment ❤️
Great value! Totally agree with everything you said, especially the part where you have to understand what the client wants to convey not what you want to show with your photography. I'd also add to the ego part the fact that some photographers, myself included, can't get over their ego to work with other photographers. In the beginning I wouldn't really feel comfortable working with others and that can put you in disadvantage lots of times. Btw step one is a pretty great description for a CV ahah
Thank you dude 🙌 glad you found it useful :) yeah I completely agree, learning to work with other creatives and accepting they may shoot something better than you is hard to over come. Took me a while too get over but has transformed my business too 🙌 thanks for sharing your insight
Thumbnail & Title game looking strong, brother! Saw this on my subscription feed and vocally announced: "Fuck yeah! Look at that!" Visual Storytelling & Solid Title Question - looking forward to watching for your wisdom.
My man - big love ❤️ appreciate the support and noticing the efforts
Interesting stuff. I am going to see this video a couple times more. Some good advice and thoughts. Thank You
Glad you liked it Kenneth! If you have any more questions, feel free to message me over on IG
What a fantastic video this was James. This should help people to get on the ladder. Brill. 👍👏👏
Thank you so much 🙌 glad you think it was helpful. Appreciate the support ❤️
Thank you!
You're welcome! Hope the information has been helpful dude. Any questions DM me on IG :)
Great video, James - especially the advice at the end about keeping your passion as your passion. The fastest way to kill a passion is to turn into your job…
Thank you man! Glad you enjoyed the video. A slightly different job to your passion is the dream 🙌🙌
I couldn’t agree more, as I’ve been in photography for nearly fifty years, and these elements of understanding are key to enabling work in and around photography, and as you say provide access to areas and people you would not otherwise have.
Work and art are not necessarily the same thing, unless you are being employed for who you are, and not what you can do.
Love the video, keep going, always interesting to say the least. G
What fantastic insight about being employed for who you are and not what you can do. Thank you for sharing Gary
Very interesting.. Food for thought
Hope its sparked some exciting thoughts for you!
Thanks for the advice man
No worries my man - Hope it proved helpful :)
Fantastic video! Very focused and actionable advice. I'm hoping to start monetizing my own photography skills and work towards making it a viable financial path for me. Excited to go shooting street after work today.
Keep at it my dude, the efforts you put in now will compound and spiral into a business in no time. Keep me in the loop with how it goes dude
THANK YOUUUU 👏🏼
Thank you for commenting and supporting the channel dude 🙌🙌
You have no idea how much I appreciate these tips! Thank you!
Yooooo thank you so much
Glad you found it useful :) if you have any questions let me know
This video is soooooo valuable James!! Killer tips! Definetely going to use these techniques!👏🏼🔥
Thank you my dude 😎 did anything stand out in particular?
@@JamesParsons1 yes! The part about thinking what the client wants to communicate through the photos and doing the research on how you are going to visualize their brand to land the job is a great tip!👏🏼
thx man great!!!
Thank you my dude! Glad you found it useful 🙌🙌
Some great point’s.8 years ago I started shooting motorsport as a passion,mainly motocross.I got really good at it,photographing the best riders in Britain then stepped to GP level photographing the best in the world home and abroad,followed by top brands,oil companies,bike brands etc and getting paid for it.Living the dream….then my passion started turning into hard work as demand grew and the passion left me and ultimately last year I stopped photographing motocross.It really is a fine line and a balancing act between pleasure and work.
Completely agree with what you've said - Which makes me even happier that I don't make money directly from the sale of Street Photography images, which is the thing I find most joy from. What do you photograph now?
@@JamesParsons1 I now photograph landscapes mainly which goes hand in hand with my joy of hiking.I still shoot the odd motocross event but I’d like to try street photography.I have just got an x100v and love it,along with your channel.Thanks for putting the effort in and long may it continue along with more success for you.✌🏻✌🏻
I read your comment and I can relate to this as I was a musician for 40yrs playing on stage, I always said it was no different to the guy outside digging a hole, it was just a job and you got paid for it. Now retired I don't play any instruments and took up photography instead.
Super useful video man, I still find it hard to let go of the art side of it to focus more on the business side of it!
Me too dude! That’s something I’ve really been struggling with recently. Glad it’s not just me ahaha
@@JamesParsons1 100% mate, it’s harder still having a CZcams channel to grow too! Keep up the great work, maybe we can hook up a street photo collab sometime 🤘🏼
Straight facts. Thats what's bene getting me. Feeling like I need to create for CZcams, take on client work and try to grow business. Gets a bit much sometimes...
Thanks James for another great video. You have some valid points when it comes to making money with a photography. Been working in both jobs simultaneously (full time and photography) i can now feel it starting to pay off 👏
YES YES YES - I LOVE TO HEAR IT. Been very happy seeing your progress on instagram. BIG UP MAN. You are doing it in hard mode with a baby and wife. Lets gooooooooo Aleks
Sound advice JP photographic marketing, I only wish now I was much younger and had the enthusiasm to do
What you have told us in this vid
Keep going, never give up on what you are doing and achieving my friend.
I tried to do that but my a coffee bit
For you, but once again I did not fully understand what to do!! So sorry JP
Forgive me it’s my 80 years young brain
Trying it’s best to work in this day and age. 😂
Love you stuff keep well. Mike ❤️
Thank you Michael! No need for you to get me a coffee
@@JamesParsons1 I can do that because I follow your work with joy, the joy of some great photos. 😊👍❤️
@@JamesParsons1 hi James been unwell so not kept up with what you are doing, anyway I will be back! Have a good Sunday
Keep well and carry on what you do best with that lovely Fuji. ❤️ Michael.
what do you mean by agencies? Like marketing/branding agencies?
Exactly that, these companies have access to many clients. So once you are in, you might get called up for a bunch of different work
Not everyone can afford to work for free. People need to eat. PAY ARTISTS
I'd say you've misinterpreted my point.
Work for free to get opportunities that are likely to progress your career, and perhaps you won't get if you were to charge. These are 99% of the time opportunities you've found/ want in on.
But if someone asks you to work for free, and it's not an incredible opp, always say no. 99% of the time people who pay you in ‘exposure’ don't have a network of paying clients.
@@JamesParsons1 While offering work for free might occasionally unlock opportunities, it's not a feasible strategy for many artists who depend on their craft for a living. Your comment suggests a selective approach, which is reasonable, but the industry's over-reliance on unpaid work can unfairly benefit those who can afford to volunteer their services, leading to a skewed representation in the art world. This practice can undermine the value of creative work and make it difficult for all artists to achieve fair compensation and recognition.
Very interesting perspective! I think as people get into the business, exposure/ promised future work is often falsely-sold by clients in order to get free work, which is really poor behaviour. Whether I have been in a lucky position where i've been able to consume a lot of business podcasts and books, i've found that as my skills increased as an artist, these offers very quickly disappeared and I don't think i've received a cowboy business offer in a lonnnng time. I still stand by getting brands on your portfolio, shows other brands you are trust-worthy and worth working with.