Make Money In Sports Photography | Interview with Photography Side Hustle podcast
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- I'm starting what I hope to be a series of interviews with photographers who are converting their skills into cash. Today, I'm talking the photography business with Andy Jones of the Photography Side Hustle podcast. Andy has a lot of great advice on getting started on the business side of sports photography with some good ideas about how to market yourself.
You can hear Andy at all the major podcast streaming services!
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Here's the interview Andy did of me for his podcast:
photographysidehustle.com/152-2/
Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:23 - Getting started in the photo business
2:07 - Sportraiture
2:46 - Learn to edit
3:05 - How to get bookings
6:12 - Social media strategies
9:11 - Employ multiple income streams
10:00 - Marketing strategies
11:47 - In-person networking
13:28 - Stand out from the competition
14:52 - Product sales
16:14 - Pricing your work
20:12 - Work for free?
20:46 - Charge at your level
22:35 - What will the market bare?
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I got started in sports photography by volunteering to shoot my son's sports for free. He is/was a 3 season athlete so for those sports I enjoyed shooting for him and his friends. Along the way I not only built up my experience and my portfolio, but being a parent you develop relationships with the coaches, and eventually the AD. One thing leads to another, one of the parents is a regular contributor to the local paper, so that led to press credentials for State tournaments.
Another avenue that has been entertaining is developing my ability to do video. I've done a couple of "hype" videos for a couple of competitons, and those get noticed when they are played on the jumbotron.
I will say, in my area, there is no money in shooting pictures to sell after the fact (through a website or something.) For me the money is in negotiating ahead of time to provide files of the event. Or for specific scheduled shoots/sportraits.
With that said, this is a hobby first and foremost for me and I'm not looking to put food on the table from it. So I have the luxury of being very selective in what I take on. So something like a cold rainy game? Only if it's late season and the two teams are sure to provide some compelling drama to capture. I'm not going out in that for an early season JV fumblefest.
I love Andy's podcast!! Great information!
Thanks for sharing! I'm a contract sports photographer like you and fell in love with video a few years ago. Wasn't sure how to proceed until I found your videos. You definitely got my gears turning.
Glad it was helpful!
Great points !
...monitor your volumn (gain)!
Hey jack another great video! I'm curious before you take a shot lets say in soccer or football during live game, do you sort of wait untill the subject perhaps comes in to about 80% of filling your frame??
I’m tracking them with autofocus as soon as possible, but yeah, somewhere around 75% for night games, maybe 50% for day games because the tighter grain at lower ISOs allows for more cropping.
Jack, Great video and a great idea for a series. Consider interviewing Haim Ariav from GFCrew. We have some guys here locally who are really doing well using the GF Crew method.
This was fantastic. Thanks! Small tip: Please work on your audio volume and mix.
Thanks, I was working with multiple sources and trying some new things and the audio suffered.
Hi Jack , I can not find to link to Andy Jones web site ... thankyou for the video
It’s in the video description, but go to photographysidehustle.com
@@JackBeasleyMedia Thanks Jack , I will have a look , I wanted to see his work . Don't I will be back see yours too .
I get paid through the sport team I shoot for
Too bad only the left channel was recorded during the interview. Set it to mono next time.
It was recorded in mono.
How I started shooting sports, Football, baseball, soccer, I proposed to the leagues that I could provide cash for their yearly struggle of uniforms and or equipment, The deal was I would shoot the player for 25$ per game and then give 10$ of that right back to the league.. In football I could only manage by myself to shoot 4 players per game.. So. After my background check and my field pass and approval, The parents were notified of this and I had a model release form for them to sign as well.
The parents would then come to me and say Ok MY son is number 36 on the B team here is my release form and my information.. name number etc. I would shoot all 4 games with 4 per game being shot.. I would then edit each and burn to a Cd with that players number, on Monday nights practice I would meet the parents give them the CD and get paid.
I would then go to the concession stand and give them my excel sheet and the funds.
This also led to as you stated sportraits.. Where I would meet the parents and child at the field when there was no practice and do a whole different set of pictures as the standard football pic is 1 pose and a team pic for the 80$ I would let them pose with their parents, their siblings or whatever they wanted in uniform like you state again a sportrait and charge 65$ for this..
I did this with soccer baseball football and it was very easy $$$ each weekend..
I used the ad600 and 2 ad200 for lights.
There is good money to be made in sports, even youth sports if you are willing to give some $$ back to the organization and they don't have to go door to door selling stupid candy bars.
Excellent approach! 👏👏👏
@@wildblueworld Yes then after a few weeks (Remember you have a model release)... I would print a Photo book and leave it at the concession stand with my contact info on the last page.
A lot of times I would then get that same person to shoot if they joined other sports and even later in life, I had a few wanted graduation pics and other pics because we already had an established base working with them.
Do not be afraid to go right to an organization and give the strategy a try..
There is also HOCKEY and DANCE..... DANCE is huge and they have BIG $$$$ BUT Dance back in the day when we did not even have the D4s out yet was a nightmare, you could not use flash and the arenas were so dimly lit it was like almost nobody was doing the dance photos it was that bad..
I have no idea these days how photography is the " dance" arena is these days.. Also carry the youth part right into high school ball and lacrosse and whatever if you can get the people to pay for it.. Now I shoot a lot of motocross and other sports and will show up and grab a few hundred images and some contact info then have the pics left at the motocross place or post a link on Facebook on their page to my galleries and if the riders needs pics I then show up and charge them for pics of them racing..
Similar to your experience, I have generated a number of sportrait sessions by drumming up a conversation with other parents complaining about how terrible the school coordinated team photos were.
Just have to make sure to keep the activity directly with the parents so as not to get the coaches/AD in trouble because the school contracted photo company complains.