That is a sound advice.
By fine-art i meant the art side. One of the reasons i want to study is too hone the ART part.
I can see that with equipment, practice & time I can shoot wildlife too !!
But not much of the professional work i see around in my country excites me.
The photography work i love is usually more inclined to fine-art.
And so i would love it if i am able to grow myself into a mode where my images are a balance of both fine-art & wildlife !!
I agree that the business part is what need more thinking on my part.
Grateful regards
Rush
On 3/5/07, Herschel Mair <
herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
A COUPLE OF POINTS
1. You only need a degree in photography if you intend to teach.
I have been a working photographer for 35 years and NOBODY ever asked me for
academic credentials except for teaching posts.
2. Wildlife/landscape photography and fine-art photography are about as far
apart as two idioms could get in photography. Most wildlife photography is done
by very well equipped amateurs these days.
To be a professional photographer you need a good amount of skill but a greater
amount of salesmanship and some very good contacts
Taking photographs COSTS money... Selling photographs earns money.
The best way to learn photography is to set yourself specific projects and
assignments within a time-frame and go out and shoot, shoot, shoot. Then
assess your result critically. I set my first-year students a goal of 200
images a week.
As they get better quality replaces quantity
Herschel Mair
--- rush rouge < pixelrouge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My main interests would be Fine Art / Wildlife !!
Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,
Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman
Adobe Certified instructor
+ (986) 99899 673
www.herschelmair.com
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