Pro? or hobby?

[BTP]

Just curious

Who here, on this site, is actually a professional photographer.. when i say that, i mean, relying on your photos to support yourself... just photography, nothing else

Or just a hobbyist?

Or a hobbyist tying to hit pro?

[tim]

Me pro. 30 weddings per year.

[spuddevans]

I'm just an aspiring hobbyest (sp?) in the real world I'm a Clear Wall Maintainence Engineer.


Tim

[Ali-Azri]

me nothing more than just another newbie. in the real world im just a retail assistant for selling Canon and Nikon.

[HSK]

For me it's a hobby, and I still have to follow the learning curve, although I will utilize it to make money, maybe not directly, but as a tool for me, because I intend to go in to the media technology field. Then I'll see if I want to take it further.

[motion_projekt]

I'm a working freelance photojounalist. but i'm also still in college.

[tim]

Rather than doing this again try the "what's your real occupation" thread.

[motion_projekt]

Pro then.

[eyelookok2blindgurls]

Pro (for the last 26 years )

[adam*]

Hobby, sell the odd image, do the odd freelance job, hopefully pro by Summer 2010.

[fruitcake]

Strictly hobby.

Would never try to be pro as its ones of my escapes from work, rather than the stress of worrying if I can make a living from it (I know i'm not good enough ;))

[koppiwrite]

Well, I am not employed by anyone other than myself, however; my husband does work and that allows me to be an aspiring pro.

[ryant35]

I'd have to work really really hard to make enough at photography to not work full time anymore. I like part time pro, I don't shoot anything for free unless it's my family.

[snails]

I'm just an aspiring hobbyest (sp?) in the real world I'm a Clear Wall Maintainence Engineer.


Tim


Window washer?

[USMCWayne]

Somewhere in-between.

I took an early retirement four years ago from my "real" job, just before I turned 53.

Nowdays, I supplement my retirement by freelancing for a few newspapers.

[DL.Photography]

Best of both worlds....I'm a professional hobbyist:cool:

Jk, I suck, and I'm still learning, strictly a hobby :)

[SuzyView]

Both. I started here years ago with a 10D and then upgraded so much, I had to go pro. :) I shoot for everything locally I can, and I travel to shoot. I shoot for free, making very little that way, but loving it. If I did go pro for money, I'd probably hate it. Passion drives me, not money.

[cryforashadow]

I'm a high school student and I don't work so a hobby, but who know what will happen in the future?

[airfrogusmc]

Commercial, advertising, environmental portraits, exec portraits. I've been working as a photographer full time since graduating in 1986 with a B/A in photography.

Have taught advanced portraiture at a local college part time and worked for 10 years as the staff photographer at a hospital and now specialize in health care related photography.

I still do personal work and I was in a group show with 20 other photographers last November. So I work professionally full time and still do my own personal work.

[spuddevans]

Window washer?


You got me :D:D:D:D but mine sounds better :lol::lol:

Tim

[Mike414]

You got me :D:D:D:D but mine sounds better :lol::lol:

Tim

Good one....pretty funny :D


Mike.

[Revhard191]

I am a Director of Operations for a Commercial Trade Printing Company in Southern California by day, and when I am not in the office I am at many of our local tracks snapping away at my fellow friends and fellow competitor Go Karters. I recently have had an opportunity arise for this years Formula Drift events to take pics of drifters and cover the event for a small wage. I am just glad to be in this position, it is more the passion then the pursuit of money. Maybe one day, but for now, it is just a hobby.

[sfaust]

Working pro, full time, pays the rent. Mostly commercial work such as catalogs, products, and people. I work mostly for corporate (65%), with the remainder being editorial and advertising.

[Mike Hoyer]

Pro, shooting motorsport.

[Peacefield]

Semi-Pro. I shoot 8-10 weddings a year plus other events and portraits, but not nearly enough to live on. I do hope to retire in another 6 years or so (if the market will only cooperate) at which time I would like to grow the business into something more.

[Borderfox]

Pro at Equestrian also Weddings and all the other usual stuff