Whether you are doing commercial portrait photography or commercial product photography, you must learn post-editing. Now is the digital age, good photographic pictures, 3 minutes to shoot, 7 minutes to repair.
Advertising makes more money because the customers who shoot wedding dresses are all individuals who bear the expenses, so the competition is fierce. Customers will choose cost-effective photography agencies to shoot, so profits will decrease with competition, but advertising is different.
Advertising is paid by enterprises or businesses, and those who pay by businesses will pass it on to consumers of products. So as far as the profit of the photography organization is concerned, as long as your technology is good enough, whether it is the lighting in the early stage or the film repair in the later stage, as long as there is no problem, you can still make money from advertising.
Besides, advertisements are not seasonal, and there are wedding photography. Seasonality is more important. Especially for location shooting, winter is the off-season of wedding photography industry.
The development prospect is hard to say because the number of tourists has a great or small impact on your studio location, population flow and consumption capacity, including your studio environment, technology and consumer price.
It will be very hard at first and can only support a meager income. Most of your income will go to pay the rent, which is unknown and has few customers. These are all difficult points. It depends on whether you can persist.
Opening a studio or photo studio is not something one or two people can do. Want to have a good prospect, at least have a good team.
A good team will make you stronger. Your team must have at least one photographer, a post-retoucher, a makeup artist and a planner. Be engaged in publicity business, including your logistics electrician, finance and purchasing.
I suggest you go to photography school to learn. The school is systematic in teaching and will tell you some basic skills and indoor portrait lighting and composition, which is very practical.
In addition, as a beginner in photography, I recommend you to order some books and websites about the basic knowledge of photography.
First, look at your camera manual.
If you want to shoot a good work, you must master the various settings and functions of the camera, such as the pre-Hou Lian synchronization of the flash, such as continuous shooting, and how to compensate for the exposure of photometry. These instructions are very clear.
Second, recommend an introductory technical book, new york Photography Textbook.
Although a little old, it is enough for basic beginners, from the interpretation of aperture shutter to the lighting of portraits in the shed to the composition of outdoor portraits. Some techniques and composition of portrait photography, children's pet photography, still life photography, landscape photography and sports photography are summarized.
Third, choose different books according to your own preferences.
For example, if you like taking portraits, choose some books on portrait photography, and if you like taking scenery, look for books on landscape photography.
Fourth, you can buy photography magazines regularly every month.
For example, friends of photography, portrait photography, mass photography, cards and so on.
Fifth, go to some photography forums.
For example, Hummingbird Network, Shadow Network, Jiayou Online, POCO and so on.
Remember to shoot more. Photography is the art of using light. To master the perfect exposure, you must shoot more and compare more.
Look at other people's works and learn more about other people's shooting techniques.
Good luck!