My Rant is:
Photography is a joke nowadays.
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Just because you take a picture of a bench or a puddle or a girl with long hair sitting in tall grass doesn't mean you're a "professional photographer." Oh, you plan on going to the art institute for their photography program? GOOD LUCK! You do know that photographers make between $18,000 and $38,000 a year, right? Have fun living on that. Especially since you think you'll be paid to take photographs of birds, trees and people wearing hats. If you're going to go into photography, go into photojournalism or something useful, something the world actually could use. Even combining photography into another profession, such as photojournalism OR graphic design, etc, is better than saying "I'm gonna open my own studio and sell my pictures and people will buy them!" Get real. You won't be able to afford a studio unless you live in it. Maybe you can work at walmart with all the backdrops and tell the awkward families how to pose. Anyone can take a picture of two girls snarling on the side of the road. Nobody wants to buy it, though. People are only interested in photographers when they're pregnant, have children, just got married, are getting married, a disaster has struck or their family is in town. It's called self-portraits and they're very popular these days. I can go to the store and buy a digital camera for like $25 instead of paying 15 year old Mary $40 to take my picture. And if I get a tripod, I can take pictures that look like someone else took them. Photographers aren't needed as much as they used to be and actually getting into the profession is pretty hard, while it's possible, it's probably not going to happen. I've been there. Just saying.
Oh, also, you will never become Anne Geddes or Annie Leibovitz.
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