Reply To: Considering Photography at University – I need critique!

[cameraclicker]

I’m at the other end of a career from you.  I did the computing courses and electronics courses, which I did find interesting and which provided a pretty lucrative career.  But, doing what you enjoy is important and if that’s not your interest you should do something else.

This part is a bit of a downer ->   Of all the musicians, less than 1% go on to be a Beatle, Rolling Stone, Toby Kieth, Dixie Chick, or part of some other successful musical group.  Similarly, of all the photographers, less than 1% go on to be a big name like Ansel Adams, Richard Avadon, etc.

That doesn’t mean you won’t be the one.  But it is an indication of how hard and smart you will have to work to get to a good place.

Business, Accounting, and Law courses will help you get further in becoming a well paid photographer than a course in photography will.  Running a photography business is 80-90% business and only 10-20% photography.  The photography you can pick up on your own.