How much is photography as a sideline in 2022?

At present, taking photography as a sideline is even more profitable than your main business, which mainly depends on your technology and positioning.

A buddy of mine runs a photography studio, whose main business is to shoot products and provide pictures for e-commerce. Before 17, it was ok. When the epidemic came, the revenue dropped directly, and now it has been extended to PS retouching.

The main reason for his decline in performance is that the arrival of short-sighted goods in frequency bands has led to the eternal prosperity of domestic e-commerce and online sales. Now that you have a mobile phone in hand, it is still easy to shoot some products by looking at the shooting skills.

Then catch up with the arrival of the epidemic, and the commodities in myopia frequency band are unprecedentedly prosperous. Just buy a better mobile phone, and then online celebrities will take goods everywhere. No one can read pictures, and no one can bring goods with pictures. Coupled with the epidemic, it can only be maintained at present.

So how can you make more money by taking photos?

First of all, locate your own technology, whether your technology is just shutter photography or professional and aesthetic photography. After positioning your own technology and finding your own shortcomings, invest time and money to improve yourself and see if your photos and videos will be liked or even bought by others.

When you shoot a good photo or video, you still need post-production, which is icing on the cake, but you can't rely too much on post-production, because if you shoot badly, you can't modify it later. If you only know the prophase and don't know the anaphase, it won't work. Only by combining the two can we present the most beautiful works.

Only serve a few high-quality customers. When you have technology, don't waste your time on the inferior customers of the public, but locate the minority high-quality customers. For example, a brand company now hires professional photographers, and the salary here is also considerable. My friend is doing it. He spends a few days every month, and his income can catch up with his salary in January. Of course, people's requirements for technology are very hard, they need skilled shutter hands, and they also have the highest requirements for style. If the photography style is exactly what they need, congratulations, so the requirement at this time is obvious personal style.

When you meet these conditions, your photography money will increase.

There is a saying that existence is valuable. Where there is demand, there will be a market. When you find that your ability can meet these needs, you are not far from making money, and the rest is to take orders to realize your own value.

As for the future of photography, in a certain period, the future of photography is still bright. Of course, there may be some uncertain factors, which need specific analysis.