Postby Walter Glover » 12 Oct 2021, 21:55
John,
I also served some time beforw the mast Shooting for habitat and, to a lesser extent, lifestyle, magazines. Thankfully I managed to dodge the bullet of RealEstate ads. There are distinctive headspaces you need to dip in and out of for each of those arenas and overarching all of the creative aspirations and advantages of production techniques looms the ogre that, largely, publishers are no longer moneyed folk with 'ink in their veins' but Merchant Bankers who devalue panache and style to being simply a commodity in the production of a dividend for investors.
The most valuable bit of kit when with you when you venture forth to shoot is being an AMATEUR. Not in the demeaned spirit of 'not being a PRO', but in the trues sense of the word of 'one whose primary motivation is not financial reward but LOVE.
When I was in my 20s I worked for a guy who was Australia's first £pound£ millionaire photographer who'd boast that the thing that Photography and Prostitution had in common was that both professions were stuffed up by amateurs.
As you get out learning about your photography you'll experience great satisfaction and adulation, but the moment you make your hobby your job, you just lost your hobby. And your friend might love your Horseman L and what it can do but these days budgets for money, time, and effort might fall long short. Have fun.
Walter Glover
"We see things not as they are. We see them as we are."
— Emanuel Kant