Business Idea/Rough
For my photography business, I would like to do product, portrait, and fashion photography as a source of income. The way my business would function would be that people come to me with their requests and ideas and I would fulfill them.
The equipment I would use most of the time would be my Nikon D3000, and Canon 6D which is about $2,000. To shoot products I would use Ortery ClothingPad Fashion Photography Studio which is $28,800 and is high quality. To do fashion photography I would purchase a MyStudio MS32 Professional Photo Studio Kit, which is about $1200. Some lenses I would need to purchase that would be 24-70mm, 85mm 16-35mm and a tripod would also need to be bought. Wich all run around $200-$500. Various props and clothing items will also be accessible for clients. I will also need to purchase several SD cards and hard drives to contain all the images.
Portrait photographers earn an average annual income of $32,000, based on a 40-hour work week, that equates to $15.38 per hour. Product photographers earn about $43K annually. And Fashion Photographers earn about $59,000. Altogether these add up to $134,000. This, however, will have to be full time and be very time-consuming. I plan to do about 15 product shoots a year, 50 portraits, and I estimate about 10 fashion shoots a year as well.
