{"id":40584,"date":"2017-11-28T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T14:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=40584"},"modified":"2022-02-17T15:24:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T20:24:23","slug":"3-secrets-to-being-the-best-freelance-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/3-secrets-to-being-the-best-freelance-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Secrets to Being the Best Freelance Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Owning your own business isn&#8217;t the only solution to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/10-ways-make-money-photographer\/\">how to make money with photography<\/a>. In fact, I&#8217;d go as far to say, it&#8217;s not even necessarily the best way to make money in\u00a0photography either, depending on your ultimate goals. The truth of it is that until\u00a0just a few years ago, owning your own business as a photographer was more of a\u00a0long-term goal, as opposed to now, when photography startups are easy to come by\u00a0and normally one of the first steps photographers take.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Traditionally, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/6-tips-for-beginners-learning-photography-2\">beginning&nbsp;photographers<\/a> worked for experienced photographers until they built up their own&nbsp;portfolio and experience enough to move up in the company, take it over, or start&nbsp;one of their own. Not to say one path is better than the other, of course. I think they both have&nbsp;their place, but there&#8217;s a lot to be said about the slowly dying position of a freelance photographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Assisting and freelancing my photography skills in the beginning of my career was one of the best things I did. I made money. I learned valuable lessons that still apply&nbsp;today. I made mistakes, but did them on someone else&#8217;s dime. I built, and sometimes&nbsp;broke, relationships that taught me more than my photography degree ever did. It&nbsp;was about five years before I started my own business after that and every day of&nbsp;those years molded me into what I am today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/7-common-mistakes-photographers-make-and-how-to-avoid-them\">starting out as a budding photographer<\/a>, or you&#8217;re a veteran in this&nbsp;industry, freelancing and assisting has the ability to be one of the best things you do&nbsp;as a photographer. There&#8217;s always something new to learn, someone new to learn&nbsp;from and money to be made on days when you didn&#8217;t book jobs for yourself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, working for someone else comes with a set of rules, and some of them are silent unknowns until you accidentally break them. I even have an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.breatheyourpassion.com\/shop-2\/a-photographers-guide-to-second-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ebook<\/a> that helps out photographers that work for me as well as others around the globe. Here are my keys to success when working for another photographer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"1-it-s-not-your-show\">1. It&#8217;s not your show<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"711\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-photographers.jpg\" alt=\"studio photographers\" class=\"wp-image-40587\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-photographers.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-photographers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/studio-photographers-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Naturally if you&#8217;re an established photographer, sometimes you get the itch to take&nbsp;the reigns when watching another photographer work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This isn&#8217;t the time for that.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You&#8217;re there for them so do what they need, not what you think needs to be done.&nbsp;Some photographers, me for example, actually get annoyed if you make photos&nbsp;suggestions or &#8220;ooh&#8221; and &#8220;aww&#8221; too much while they&#8217;re working with the bride and groom (it makes me lose my focus). Find out how the photographer&nbsp;you&#8217;re working for likes to communicate the day of and stick to it. If nothing else, it&#8217;ll&nbsp;be a exercise in self-control and biting your tongue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"2-don-t-burn-bridges\">2. Don\u2019t burn bridges<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/photoshoot-photographer-model.jpg\" alt=\"photoshoot with photographer and model\" class=\"wp-image-40586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/photoshoot-photographer-model.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/photoshoot-photographer-model-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/photoshoot-photographer-model-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There are some no-brainers when it comes to working for others, but you might not&nbsp;even be aware of some of these others. Here&#8217;s some guidelines that I know myself and other NYC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/12-wedding-photography-tips-for-amateur-photographers\">wedding photographers<\/a> abide by to make sure that you&#8217;re developing good industry peer relationships and not burning them to the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"do-not-hand-out-your-own-business-cards\">Do not hand out your own business cards.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Not to guests, not to the bridal party, not to&nbsp;other vendors, not even to your own mother if she happens to be there. In fact, a&nbsp;good practice is to not even give out your last name, or if they hunt you down on&nbsp;Facebook anyway, to ignore the request. A majority of the business that comes into&nbsp;photography studios comes by word-of- mouth, so the photographer that you&#8217;re&nbsp;working for will most likely be quite peeved if you end up getting the referrals from&nbsp;their gig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"do-not-call-in-sick\">Do not call in sick.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re a wedding photographer like I am, you know that sick days are&nbsp;completely non-existent. You&#8217;ve photographed sick, practically comatose, and&nbsp;occasionally with a broken bone even. Have the same respect for the photographer&nbsp;that you&#8217;re working for and don&#8217;t bail on the job with very little notice. If you&nbsp;absolutely are in a coma, then before you gracefully bow out of the job, make sure&nbsp;you&#8217;ve already found an adequate replacement for yourself. There&#8217;s no stress like&nbsp;trying to find a good replacement photographer last minute, and nothing screams&nbsp;unprofessional like a photographer who doesn&#8217;t get that and rudely backs out of a&nbsp;commitment for any reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"don-t-give-it-all-away\">Don&#8217;t give it all away.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Some people might disagree with me on this one, but I believe that you shouldn&#8217;t&nbsp;perform the same on hired gigs as you do on your own. That&#8217;s not to say you&#8217;re&nbsp;shooting intentionally poor by any means, but if I charge a bride and groom $10,000&nbsp;for a wedding and bring out all the stops with off-camera-lighting and the works, I&nbsp;don&#8217;t think I should be doing the same thing for a gig that&#8217;s paying $500. What&nbsp;would be the reason for any client to hire you if they can get the same thing cheaper&nbsp;working for someone else? There are some things that you do that are exclusive to&nbsp;you and your brand and they shouldn&#8217;t be given away while working for someone&nbsp;else. You&#8217;re getting paid hundreds and your bag of tricks should be saved for when&nbsp;you&#8217;re getting paid thousands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"3-represent-the-lead-photographer-well\">3. Represent the lead photographer well<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wedding-photographers.jpg\" alt=\"wedding photographers\" class=\"wp-image-40588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wedding-photographers.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wedding-photographers-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/wedding-photographers-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1068px) 100vw, 1068px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/wedding-photography-10-things-we-learned-from-luke-and-david-edmonson\">Photographers<\/a> are one of the most seen vendors on the day of the wedding. They&#8217;re&nbsp;there the longest, communicate the most with the bride and groom and are around&nbsp;more before and after a wedding than any other vendor &#8211; maybe tying with the&nbsp;event planner, if there is one. What that means for you is that even though you&#8217;re&nbsp;just the second photographer and will probably hug the walls and be in the&nbsp;background a bit, you&#8217;re the face of that company for the day. People are looking at&nbsp;you and judging the company you&#8217;re working for based on your actions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pay extra close attention to what your personality, punctuality and professionalism are giving off that day. If any of them are negative you&#8217;re potentially giving such a&nbsp;poor representation that you&#8217;re losing referrals for the main photographer. Act in a&nbsp;way that says you care about the photographer you&#8217;re working for and their&nbsp;business just as much as you care about your own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Owning your own business isn&#8217;t the only solution to how to make money with photography. In fact, I&#8217;d go as far to say, it&#8217;s not even necessarily the best way to make money in\u00a0photography either, depending on your ultimate goals. 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