Monday, July 17, 2017

Please Stop Calling Yourself an Amateur Photographer

Please Stop Calling Yourself an Amateur Photographer
If you're reading this, then you're probably not really an amateur photographer--you're probably actually a hobbyist. If you're a professional photographer, than most of your taxable income comes from photography. If you're a semi-pro photographer, then you make taxable income from your photography. But if you're an amateur, the proper definition is simply doing something for pure pleasure and not in the pursuit of money. And that's absolutely correct, but the connotation of it has more to do with your skill level. Many of you reading this have most likely been shooting for years and the majority of you probably make some sort of taxable income off of your photography. So you've learned step 1 about this industry: that sometimes it doesn't have a single thing to do with your skill level.
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