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About a week or 2 ago my
photography class visited a photographer’s studio. The photographer we visited is Jim Lennon
(lol no to be confused with john lennon).
He is a local photographer on long island and mostly works with
corporate clients. His studio is kind of
small and he only has 1 employee, his wife.
He has 2 Hasselblad cameras and a variety of lights. H also has a mock kitchen set up for
food/kitchen based clients.
I learned a
lot during this visit. I learned how
expensive and difficult it is to run your own studio. I also learned how much training and year of
experience you need to have to make it actually happen. There is so much more that goes into running
your own studio, way more than I imagined.
After visiting his studio and hearing speak I am definitely discouraged. It is way too complicated, expensive and
difficult to start out as a beginner photographer and have your own studio. This discouragement is not bad though.
Jim also
talked about many other career opportunities that photography can offer. That put me at ease, I might not be able to start
off having my own studio but that doesn’t mean I can’t still have a photography
related career. I can be a free-lance
photographer, or a photo assistant, or a photo editor etc. There are still plenty of other reasonable
careers out there. I also really like
messing around in Photoshop and seeing what I can come up with by combining different
photos. Maybe someday I can turn my Photoshop
skills into a career. All I know is that
I will not be starting off my career in photography by opening up my own
studio. This field trip was a good eye
opener, it opened up a world of possibilities in photography and made me think
of things I never would have considered.
The picture above is a combination of a picture I took of my friend at Robert Moses, A tree in Miami and stars from Arizona.
Looking good!
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