How much do you make from Photography : per annum

[JM Tran]

So much for business of photography. Perhaps the ones making money are too busy to post on forums.

LOL being a full time pro does not mean we are working/shooting 24 hours a day!

I am currently at my office waiting for a wedding client to come to sign contracts and pay deposit on a nice Sunday afternoon. I am making money today but I also have time to browse AP and reply to this thread?

[kiwi]

I have a ft job. Part time photography and 4 boys under 12 and look at my post count

Sad

[jjjnettie]

The last few years I averaged around $500 a year from selling prints at our local country show.

[Kerrie]

Ask me in a year

[Wayne63]

$0 but still spend on gear

[AWB]

Nothing at the moment.

[4wdexposure]

Interesting poll - most respondents make nothing and 90% of respondents make $10K or less. Other than wedding photographers, real estate house ads etc aside I'm not sure anyone makes money out of just selling images (even professional photographers when you take into account their overheads). I was looking for someway of financing my "hobby" of photography in retirement (still several years away) and found that I could sell travel articles because the photos with those articles are better than those put up by most of the publisher's journalists - ie usually people who write aren't proficient photographers and vice versa. So if you can use you photography skills as not the end game, but a means to an end then modest incomes are possible. If you look at some of the great photographers we have in this country they all seem to do something else to earn a crust - usually workshops to pass on their skills.

I have to say it's great to get over the barriers to small business with the ATO as all my photography costs can be offset against my other income, camera and car depreciation are now also tax deductible.

[Aussie Battler]

Agree with 4wdexposure.

If you can combine your photography with other skills you can make a dollar.

A couple of years back I was making $300-$500 a month by submitting articles with pics to a specialist sporting magazine.

I'm not a trained writer or journo but could string a few words together to make my articles informative and helpful to other readers and my pics were of sufficient standard for publishing - thank god for digital!! Take enough photos and you gotta get a few good ones.

Look to what the mags are already publishing - what they want is more of the same - not your personal or artistic take on things (see my signature).

But hey, sitting down and writing a 3000-3500 word article ain't easy!!

[rustylongbeard]

but are we in this for the money or the glory? (if only i could win picture of the week)

[ricktas]

but are we in this for the money or the glory? (if only i could win picture of the week)

If only we could see some of your photos up for critique!

[birdsrus]

I think a lot of people reading this thread are interested in make money out of their photography. Most of my photography income is a result of photography being my second skill. I n my case I write and create environmental education material. There is a lot of room for photography and my clients have a one stop shop.

[sonickel77]

I broke even doing an exhibition with a couple of other artists at a pub, I was the only photographer there. But the buyers were my friends, family or friends of friends, so not really sustainable long term.....