Jianghu secrets-secrets that professional photographers have to tell.

Photographer, it sounds very literary, and the fact is really hot. However, when you become a professional photographer, you will find that this profession is not easy at all, but rather bitter.

Many people scoff, how can photography be bitter and tiring? Isn't it just taking pictures and pressing the shutter? There are beautiful girls to see and they earn a lot of money.

Is that really the case? Your photographer may be like this.

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But in fact, professional photographers have it.

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Professional photographers take pictures for a living. A group of photos is 3-5 thousand, which is basically enough for life. If scenery is the main thing, it is not too low to go to remote areas with inaccessible and beautiful scenery. This is also a famous photographer.

Occupational diseases, including tenosynovitis, neck and shoulder problems, and even some chronic diseases, also have mental stress. I haven't made any money so far. There will also be customers who don't pay. Some have fallen out with customers, some have been vilified by their peers, and some have come to the studio to steal technology as customers, not to mention those who have been filming for 36 hours continuously, patting furniture in a 40-degree tin factory all night, and killing only one box of mineral water a day.

Even if you are lucky enough to be a professional photographer and have a good customer base, you should try to find new customers and keep old ones. Any lazy photographer will always fail. Cruelly, this market opportunity will always be reserved for the hardest-working people.

After a period of filming, publicity, marketing, establishing personal network and making money, you will find that "filming" or "filming" is actually the easiest part, while it is the most difficult to find a job, keep a job and continue the whole career, especially because your talent may not be here.

Not all photographers are fit to be professionals. If you feel that you are not suitable for doing business, or even don't like doing business, don't be forced. Turning photography into artistic creation and developing other businesses to support it will avoid wasting your life doing jobs you hate. Do what you like and become an expert in this cause.

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