How To Become a Pro Photography in 5 Simple Steps
1. Declare yourself a photographer. That’s what you ARE in life. You’re not a student, not a finance-guy-slash-part-time-photographer, not a part time anything. You’re a photographer. People have to know this.
2. Be in business. Make it real. Get a business bank account, business license (city + county), business cards. Business. Otherwise it’s a hobby.
3. Read every book you can find at the library or online about the business of photography. Understand the rules. Because if you fail at the business part, if you can’t SUSTAIN this business, you’re not a pro. You’re unemployed, or back to part-time this or that. And back to step 1 you go again…wanting to be a pro. NOW then, if read these books and they make sense, and they teach you how to run the books and land the gigs…you gotta then break some of the rules you read in these books. And YOU choose which are the right ones to break. You’ll be right 50% of the time, you just won’t know which 50% until after you’ve taken the leap. Action is the only thing that matters.
4. Take photographs everyday and share them, pimp them, promote them like mad. For clients and for yourself. Get creative as all hell. Find YOUR voice through shooting more photos than you thought was possible. Aim to be different, not better than everybody else. Be brutal in your edit. Put forward only your best work around the the things you actually want to get paid to shoot. Break all the rules here too. And again, you’ll be mistaken 50% of the time, but you gotta take your swings to hit anything at all. Don’t forget, the DOING is the only thing that matters here too. What you THINK is nice, but it counts for zilch, zero, nada. Action wins.
5. Repeat.
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The wedding I was shooting posed right down the street from Occupy Wall Street so we decided to swing by and have the groom and his buddies pretend they were ‘big business’ and yell back at the protesters. It didn’t really work since everyone just started laughing
Occupy Wall Street downtown Chicago
How people think photographers spend their time
vs
How photographers actually spent their time
Camera grocery bag, Nikon get on this!
I’ve seen a ton of skittles-vodka tutorials out there but this one is too awesome to not attempt
Garlic On-Choy
Chicken with Garlic Sauce
Collapsible Shot Glass — $15.50 USD
Carol’s Creek happy hour
Dinner club for the strong-stomached
Cooked lamb eyeball, boiled fertilised duck egg and beaver tail are just a few of the more unusual dishes sampled by a club of adventurous eaters called the Gastronauts.
Started in March of 2006 by two friends who wanted to try some of the more exotic foods that could be found in New York, the first meeting of the club attracted only six people.
But it has now grown to more than 1000 members in New York and Los Angeles and there are plans to expand to other US cities.
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Expand to Chicago soon!
What we ordered that day
I was caught in the background at Hot Dougs when Food Network was filming the Chicago episode of Heat Seekers. I had more than one friend tell me they were so confused when they saw me on tv at four in the morning
Kimchi Pork Belly Cheese Fries
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