Thank you very much for your answers. Can I be an assistant in the studio and a photographer in a third-tier city later?

First of all, you have to understand that there are great differences in styles and working methods between studios and photo studios. You have work experience in the studio, but there are still some deviations in the studio. You've done it yourself. You should know.

Whether you can be a photographer in a third-tier city depends on your orientation and future development direction.

Although assistants are severely exploited, suffer the most and earn the least money, one of the advantages of being assistants is that they can observe some skills of other photographers at close range, including technical level, service level, workflow and so on, and some things can't be learned in school. What you see may not be the correct way to deal with it, but at least it can provide you with a reference. When you become a photographer yourself, you will work independently, and you will have little chance to see others. Therefore, you should have a plan for your future and arrange your current actions according to the plan.

If you are a photographer in a third-tier city now, it's probably not a big problem. If you want to open your own studio, the problem is even less serious, because you only need to know that photography is still necessary. But if you want to be a good photographer, it doesn't hurt to watch more.

But I can tell you for sure that you have received systematic training for half a year. As long as the training institution you attend is not a fraud institution and you have assistant experience, it is not a big problem to be a photographer. Many of my former students were very successful.

Cheer for you again!