Becoming a Photographer

becoming a Photographer

i want to be a Photographer.
i want to be a photographer because, i love working with people, kids, and animals. being a photographer can be alot of work but its mostly fun work that you have to do such as: taking pictures of little kids, taking pictures of adults/families, taking pictures of animals and so on. you also get to develope the pictures in a darkroom, which is an all black room except for the infrared lights that are on as you are working. photographers tend to make about $24,040 in a year. some recomended photography schools are: st. john's university, new york university, oklahoma state university, brown college, university of central florida, brigham young university, university of missouri, university of north texas, southwestern college, and grand valley state university. a career in photography can be hectic, complicated, and rewarding all at the same time. having a career in photography you would be able to meet new people, learn new things that you can try, you will also accomplish more. the pictures that you take, you could put on greeting cards, calenders, posters and they could also end up on magazine covers. if you have a website of your own then you would be able to put the pictures that you take on your website so people all around the world could see them. photographers usually work 5 days a week, 40 hours in that week. some advantages to being a photographer are: you would being doing something you really love, you get to go to some really nice places(travel), you get to go to really cool/interesting events, you can edit the pictures you take and make them look really neat.
some disadvantages to being a photographer are: don't get paid much depending on the job site your at, not many people hire photographers, because with the technology that's out now people can do pretty much the same thing on their own computer that they would normally have to hire a photographer.