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I wonder that the commercial model is for endeavours such as this? I guess you collect royalties from people who want to publish the photos, but although you g
by bennyelv 4y ago
I wonder that the commercial model is for endeavours such as this? I guess you collect royalties from people who want to publish the photos, but although you get a one-off wow factor I don't see there being a big market for these kinds of photos.
Is it a hobby/pursuit or can you actually make a living doing this kind of thing?
P.S. It's a fascinating thing and I love it!
- vaidhy 4y agoI have the same question over nature and wildlife photography. Maybe there is a royalty model when people license the images or publishing coffee table books. This is like open source work. You do it for the passion and maybe someone will give you enough contracts for a living.
- bennyelv 4y agoIt could well be a career for "people of means" only, I'd be fascinated if anyone here had any insight into this...
- pier25 4y agoMany photographers make a living with magazines like NatGeo. And you could also sell prints online.
- vaidhy 4y agoYou can win a project from NatGeo and/or other organizations.. but that is not permanent income.
- pier25 4y agoWell almost nothing creative does, unfortunately.
- munificent 4y agoLots and lots of people get by with unstable burst-y incomes like this. Those of us with well-paid salaried jobs have a luxury we easily take for granted.
- bennyelv 4y agoThere’s also a reasonably large set of people who do so because they have a significant trust fund or large inheritance coming so they can basically do whatever they like and the money doesn’t really matter. Don’t necessarily feel sorry for them!
- dylan604 4y agoPeople collect things of all sorts. Taxidermy animals posed doing human things. Preserved butterflies in a frame. Things with bones of animals and people. Artwork made from human hair. Photos of snowflakes. Photos of fish. Photos of people, the horror. Why would photos of something like this strike you as any different. Why shouldn't the artist making prints not be able to make money from the effort, experience, and skill of producing those prints in manner that are worthy of a print? It's like asking anybody can write code, why should someone be able to make money doing that. Hell, computers write code themselves now. What makes you special you feel you need compensation for it? Also, it could just start out as a hobby. Got anything you do on the side that started out as a curious nature, became a serious interest, then got good enough other people were interested in what you did?
- pvaldes 4y agoTo start, you need huge amounts of diesel to produce this work. Expensive technology. Hours or weeks of work identifying this things...