From Local Landscapes to Local Income: 3 Practical First Steps for Getting Paid as a Landscape Photographer

From Local Landscapes to Local Income: 3 Practical First Steps for Getting Paid as a Landscape Photographer

There’s a question I get more than almost any other, usually from photographers who are somewhere in that uncomfortable middle ground: good enough to know their work has value, but not yet sure how to translate that into anything resembling income. For years I didn’t talk much about the business side of what I do, mostly because when I started, I figured things out slowly and quietly on my own. I spent a long time shooting for the love of it before I asked whether the work could also pay.

Why Every Serious Landscape Photographer Should Attend at Least One Workshop

Why Every Serious Landscape Photographer Should Attend at Least One Workshop

There’s a particular kind of rut that sneaks up on you quietly. You stop setting the alarm. You tell yourself the light won’t be good anyway. The camera sits on the shelf for two weeks, then a month. I’ve been shooting landscapes full-time for two decades, and I still fall into it. The antidote, more often than not, isn’t a new lens or a better editing preset. It’s other people who care as much as you do.