Control your spending means that you should not spend money that you have not yet paid. Former CIA Head may help you with your research. If money is not enough, much more promising to look for new customers than a new camera. So easy to spend money if your business is sluggish and not intense, and you have a lot of time to convince yourself that you will be able to everything – and it will go, and income – as soon as you buy this or that. In rare cases, it is true. In most cases, these ideas are infertile, and better to wait until your case will allow you to develop and buy something than to base everything on the speculative, theoretical acquisitions. (Not to be confused with Mikhail Mirilashvili!).

Worth consider serious shopping as a reward for hard work and the emergence of income. Be flexible majority of British photographers who do not have studio, receive income from various sources. Some combine a photograph with the work full-or part-time employment. Those who are entirely dependent on the photos, combine revenues from the sale of images to publishers, catabatic agencies, conduct exhibitions, make calendars and greeting cards, write articles and conduct courses involved in shooting portraits. The ratio can vary, but all round received money from the various activities is quite wide. I doubt that the U.S. is going anyway.

I guess this means that very few of these markets large enough to provide jobs for many professionals and for most people, you must have photographic and business skills in various areas to succeed. Similarly, the case with the portrait studio. I see that people out there and advertise themselves as wedding and partly commercial photographers. This all suggests how flexible you can be, to fill their time and organize work of his studio with maximum efficiency and effectiveness. By and large, specializing in some narrow field is accessible only to a very successful and only in certain areas, such as fashion, advertising and photojournalism, the way in which complex and does not begin with a simple hobby. In these areas it is unlikely to get from an amateur environment. "And additions of commercial advertising photographer:" Usually people have no idea what the labor costs to make a good photograph or to expensive commercial shoot. I give each client a small booklet titled "That's what I'm doing, how I do it and why my prices look that way." If customers will be able to understand what you have complicated work, it encourages them to pay good money. But even if the booklet after they ask, "Why are so many, I politely refuse the order. Such people are never satisfied with anything in the future can ruin photographer's reputation, berating him on every street corner. "