Actually, I had the misfortune of reading some really nasty posts earlier today and I think this was a remnant of that! I have a pretty good sense of humor...except maybe for the past 30 minutes! :wink:

ha ha. .. your all upset because no one supplied the magic answer on how to make money as a photographer. Here it is, there is no magic answer. Every day very talented photographers fail at business. photographers that's talents would blow your mind, yet they don't have whatever was missing. every day photographers that should have their camera stripped from their hands and beaten with tripods are opening "businesses" and turning out crap that should never have been seen by the public and people are flocking to them. you want to know why? cause they are cheap, so cheap that if they actually looked at their COGs they would see they are actually giving away their product.

Making money with any hobby you love is hard, when you add in the fact that every Tom, Dick and Henry thinks because they got a DSLR for Christmas they can start charging people for money, running a photography business is not a quick and easy way to money. everyday i field calls from people wanting a deal because "well x,y,z only charges $50 and I get all the pictures on a disk, but your pictures are so much better. i really want to have you do our pictures, can you match their price?"


Nope, for $50 I won't even put my CF card in the camera. clients want basement barn prices but boutique images. this is the hard truth about photography in today's world, thanks craigslist photographers.

You can't read can you? I laid out ways to make money. I also said how hard it is. Don't post something and then tell someone you "know" why someone is upset. I don't like people who are rude...period. I don't like those who think they know what others "think". And I have zero respect for someone hasn't kept up with the thread yet makes posts like your last one. Catch up before making another comment. Your presumptuousness is mind numbing.

bahhhhhaaaaaaaaa you make me laugh. Thanks, I actually really needed it today. The week of Valentine's day is slow for me so this has been entertaining to say the least.

There are always two parts of any successful profession.

1) The skills necessary to deliver the goods to the client. These can be hired or learned . . . only takes about 5 years of concentrated study)

2) The business end of business. This is the part most newcomers neglect, but is where the horse meets the cart. Without business knowlege you are guaranteed failure!

Just my three cents worth . . . oops . . . have to round that up to a nickle as Canada stopped producing pennies. :oops:

You Canadian's are smart. I read an article somewhere that it takes 11 cents to mint and distribute a U.S. penny. No wonder we're broke. And before the crap starts flying I haven't done all the research on that. I will later if I think about it. Better yet someone else research it and tell me I'm wrong so I don't waste my time. :thumbup:

There ya go! That's another way to make money that i hadn't even thought of!:thumbup:

I read that it definitely costs more than 1 penny to make one penny. I don't know if it's 11 cents but we do lose money on them. In fact, years ago there was a half penny and it stopped being minted because it had such little buying power. But the buying power of the half penny when it was discontinued was equivalent to the buying power of a quarter today.