Most of my adult life, I was running only my businesses. People who are starting a professional photography business are making number of repeatable mistakes. These mistakes can shorten and limit their new business life.You have the skills and the experience from working for others, and I am sure you know the photography business. Is it enough for running a business of your own?Small businesses making these two mistakes, try to avoid them when starting a professional photography business of your own.Here are two assumptions you should avoid:1. “I love photography” – Passion can help you in the business, but it does not make it or run a business.
Remember starting a professional photography business like starting any other business, needs to have profits. While enthusiasm could help and motivate you to run a business, you should need a business plan (could be in your head). Meaning a model that will show you where your money will be coming from and where is the profit.For a complex business, you will even need to measure the performance of the different aspects in the business. However, if you have the money to live on and starting a professional photography business, then it is a perfect solution to do the work you love.2. “My photos are so great no way customers will not buy that sort of work” – Do you know what your customers really want?Producing black and white prints or noisy animated videos in my home green screen studio, who is going to buy the work? How many people will really want to buy it?
Are you sure you will have enough customers for that kind of work?
So can you base your business around it? How would you know what people would buy?
Look at the market and speak to other photographers or tour around to see what sells.A – Your first steps when starting a professional photography business, would be looking at different aspects of today’s photography. Then ask yourself what do you like, and what you can learn about the market for such services.It is your personal choice, whether you do weddings or portrait work – It may be a good way you could use of differentiating your special offerings in the photography world.B – Then you should start to identify your potential customers and find out what do they really want and why do they want it? Your business most important goal should focus on “how to solve your customer’s needs and problems”.When starting a professional photography business step back from time to time and ask yourself what you are doing? Could you do more? Is it worthwhile?

So, ultimately you got the much awaited important news of your pregnancy. The confirmation of first pregnancy is the most important news not only for the woman but for her husband too. The elder family members also feel internal pleasure by getting the news about the expansion of family tree. Young couple starts weaving dreams about the care and bringing up of child, yet to be born. Would- be mothers start getting suggestions from everyone but hardly anyone suggests about maternity photography, an important activity for pregnancy period.Maternity photography is the most convenient, effective, safe and trendy way to store the memories, experiences and feelings, you face during pregnancy period. During this period, you witness strange bodily developments; most of these disappear after the delivery of child. Can you store all the memories intact to share with family members or even with this child? Perhaps, no. Pregnancy photography makes your memories alive lifelong; you can share your un-expressible experiences and feelings with true colors.Many couples know about this photography but because of having few misconceptions they don’t opt for it. As a result, they feel regret throughout the life. The misconceptions, they have, are purely because of ignorance of realities and the tendency to follow the age-old tradition. The common misconceptions are related with finance, social acceptance, exposure, locations and preparedness. The firm determination is the key to unlock the answers hidden only inside you.Couples think maternity photography a costly affair. The cost of this photography depends upon your personal liking, purpose and related parameters but in any case it always remains in your control. The main factors affecting the cost of pregnancy photography are selection of location, number of photographs, number of total sessions, reputation of photographer, media type to store the shoots and the purpose. Purpose may be personal use or commercial use. You need professionally shoot photographs, if you are open to share your pregnancy photographs with exhibition organizers, advertising agencies and magazines like channels; this photography costs more. If the purpose is personal, it is a low cost exercise. To reduce the cost further, you may opt to do it yourself also.The growing popularity of maternity photography proves the increasing acceptance of society. Elder members too have accepted its importance. Exposing limits depend upon your liking. It is you who decide how much to be exposed. Exposure doesn’t decide the quality of maternity photographs. Just after going through few pregnancy photography sites or books, you will be the perfect model for maternity photography.