Reply To: Am I flooding the market by teaching photography?

[fstopper89]

I am hoping your teachings are not being reflected upon in their lack of skills. I guess that would be the first question. (I have not seen any of your work). Most people just don’t realize that there are basic skills necessary to do decent hobby work, and then there are a whole slew of advanced photography skills plus business skill/etiquette/legal stuff required to actually run a business. You should cover an entire day on how a photography business is very different than photography as a hobby, and maybe put a little fear into them. Show them bad photography and explain why it is bad. Explain that it usually requires a few years at least of experience and training and more expensive equipment to make the jump into doing it as a profession.