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A photographer friend once told me that regarding my social media presence and my websites, it’s not clear what I do as a photographer. I\u2019m all over the show \u2014 portraits, weddings, headshots, corporate stuff, product photography, timelapse. He suggested that I specialize in a niche, and then make sure I stand out in that niche as the best. For example just do product photography, and be the best at products on white. Become even more specialized.<\/p>\n
Sounds like solid advice on the surface. Yet, I love the seeming randomness of what I do. The variety keeps burnout at bay. I get to do all kinds of interesting jobs \u2026 like on this day in Oct 2021 : photos and videos of a pro-vaccine campaign, with this moving billboard trolling in front of Fox News, before circling around the busiest part of midtown Manhattan. Best of all, it\u2019s a paid gig. Here\u2019s to more randomness in my professional life!<\/p>\n
Unless you are so good at what you do these days, you can’t specialize. But I\u2019m trying to be more specific about how deep I can go the variety of work that I can do. I also love the variety, but realize more and more there are certain photography genres I am just ok at and others I am really good at. But I wish I had more time to improve the ones that aren\u2019t my strong suit. There’s always the urge to want to learn more about this ever-fascinating thing called photography.<\/p>\n
Finding your niche in photography … or not A photographer friend once told me that regarding my social media presence and my websites, it’s not clear what I do as a photographer. I\u2019m all over the show \u2014 portraits, weddings, headshots, corporate stuff, product photography, timelapse. He suggested that I specialize in a niche, and Read more inside…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[591,225],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[1160,1020,13842,13841,13840,13843,4692],"class_list":{"0":"post-51048","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-marketing","8":"category-essays-discussions","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51048"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51048"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51100,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51048\/revisions\/51100"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51048"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=51048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}