Some people say that to get rich you gotta do what others don't wanna do. For a photographer it means going to a warzone. What are some other fields in photography that can make you rich and famous but you just hate doing it?
>>4504446Or just cash in on tourism?
>>4504452tourists don't have cameras?
>>4504446In photography? Anyone big right now is through nepotism, simple as that.>What are some other fields in photography that can make you rich and famous but you just hate doing it?Commercial photography potentially, but you'll fucking hate it. I did it for a while and it zapped my enthusiasm and I didn't touch my own camera for almost a year after I quit.
>>4504458>Commercial photographyHow do I start in 2026?
>>4504453What is your point? Everyone has a camera, soldiers, beggars, tourists.
>>4504461You'll start at the bottom and the bottom in my mind is real estate photography. Talk to some real estate agents in your area and ask about who they hire, as they likely hire a small local company, then just talk to that company about getting a job. You will make shit pay and shit hours because you're basically a peon but it's a foot in the door.
>>4504446Not famous, but you can be rich doing product photography since most online sellers don't focus on it.
>>4504446all decent paying work is soul sucking if you want to make art
>>4504446Get in contact with real estate companies. Offer to do the first 5 houses for free just to make a portfolio; then you can see if they're willing to pay. If not then you have something to shop yourself out with.
>>4510297This. But be warned, other real estate photographers can be really aggressive about their business and don't want anybody else muscling in. The rivalry is insane. I was with one local photography company and ended up with a clause in my contract that had me agree to not work in that industry again within a 100 mile radius for 2 years if I left.
photojournalism is really fun
>>4504864>product photographyThat's gonna be dead quite fast. Take a photo of a product with your iphone and ask chatgpt to make a nice product photo out of it with any theme or background you like. It's gonna end up better than what most product photographers can achive. And it's free and fast. And it's also one of the AI fields where you don't immediatelly can tell that it's AI.
>>4504586Most real estate agents just use wide mode on their iphones now since the quality is fine for the resolutions posted on internet listings. Only the higher end real estate (multi million dollar homes) will be photographed by someone professional. Some of them even have a cheap DJI drone for the neighborhood aerials, and no they hardly ever have a commercial drone operating license and nobody cares.
>>4512185Accurate. Real estate photographers are still around but shits changing rapidly, there's also some new AI app that will do the HDR look without bracketing now and agents are really picking it up. All real estate agents really need to do now is learn composition and AI will do the rest of the editing for them.
