Warning - Most New Photographers End up Quitting

The business of wedding photography is extremely hard work. Being simply talented is no guarantee for success.  Many hours and dollars go into the development of an established  wedding photography business.

Not the Easy Life

If it was easy many more people could claim to be professional full-time photographers.  The fact that our line of work is difficult to succeed in makes it all the worth more.

Takes Time to Succeed

Clients and business referrals take years to cultivate.  First comes the business planning, the marketing, hopefully many client enquiries, followed by wedding planning and consultation, managing bookings and balancing accounts, shooting weddings, backups, editing, book designing, upselling, dealing with print orders, encouraging referrals and promotion.

Multi Skilled a Must

Unless we have help from partners, family or hired help photographers must excel at more than just the art of point and shoot. We must be skilled at handling people, networking, social media, selling, account keeping, editing, IT skills, graphic design, administrating, organising, web designing, print handling and many more.

So many skills to master, yet one single mistake could prove devastating to your career's future.

for example fail in organisation may result in a double booking/missing a wedding or fail stringent backup procedures and lose image files. Any of these nightmare scenarios may result in you being sued or your reputation all but completely  destroyed.

Keep on Trying

Along the way small failures, a little doubt, various degrees of depressing moments, possible poor cashflow will hit you often. You will need to learn to remain happy on the whole, motivated and passionate and above all confident about what you do. The trick is to turn all the failures into lessons and grow stronger and smarter.