As simple as it sounds. This step is often skipped all you
have to do is this first. Hey everybody my name is Jonathan
and welcome to my channel. Today we're talking about something
that might be of some interest to you. Let's be real. Alright,
getting hired as a beginner photographer is. very hard. Not
just because of the amount of competition out there, but in a
way it's a lot like an eight to four job. We just finished
school, and he has some education qualified you apply
for a job, you go into an interview, and then they ask you
about your experience, maybe you're doing good. In the first
part of the interview. But when it comes down to the discussion
around the experience. You don't have any of that. And that is
your downfall. So anyway, it's similar in that poll you get
that experience without experience, how do they hire you
for that job when you're a beginner and fresh out of
school. Similarly, when you're brand new photographer, how do
you get hired as a beginner. Now I have this one hack that is
going to help you significantly with that. Well, before we get
into that, I'd appreciate it if you smashed your living
daylights out of the like button below. And as soon as you do
that, we'll get straight into the video. Let's do this.
Alright, so how do you do it, how do you get out. More
importantly, who hires you. It's a professional. You get hired by
professional. No, I'm not talking about client, like a
photography client. I'm talking about another photographer, a
professional photographer, you're going to work for another
professional photographer taking photos or being an assistant,
because a lot of times photographers who have a lot of
work already. They need some help with that. And let's say
it's an event, they may need another photographer, to help
with second shooting, where they cover different parts of an
event or let's say it's a different type of photography.
Actually, even if it is event photography, they may need an
assistant, an assistant role is critical to their success at an
event, for example, for help with lighting positioning
lighting stands for switching off the lens goes, not just the
technical side. A lot of times they would need help with the
business side, like focusing on contracts and following up with
potential clients, she this way you get that experience so when
you're actually doing this on your own. When you are the
professional and getting business and functioning in all
of those different areas. So it's not just the technical side
but getting the business to monetize your hobby and your
passion. Okay, so now you're probably asking, how do you
actually get hired, or even hook up with one of these
professional photographers, how would they hire me. why would
they hire me well there's many ways that you can go about it so
you can go about finding different job opportunities, you
can look for system jobs on job sites like, indeed, monster.com,
LinkedIn, or even Craigslist. That's just to name a few. Based
on your community in your country they may have some more
specific job boards.
That would be quite useful for you to check out, or what I
recommend is running a search on Facebook or Instagram for
photographers in your area. Actually I think you can do a
little bit better on Facebook, we can narrow down the search
the type of photographer, and the specific area that you're
looking for, Sarah Anna's search for a wedding photographer, and
you can narrow down to that specific area that you live in
or where you want to get hired and you can check out all of
these photographers that show up there, see the kind of work that
they do, which are the ones that inspire you can reach out to. So
you reach out to them, let them know that you are an upcoming
photographer, and you're interested in working closely
with them on helping them with some of their weddings.
Obviously you know you let them know that you admire their work
and you would like to assist them off work as a second
shooter. Now you need to understand that you have to ask
for the job. As simple as it songs, you need to make a phone
call, send an email message me, you need to be the one to reach
out. Now I would say if you do decide to go down that road
original auto photographer via social media. What I'd recommend
is to start engaging with them on social media first like
providing some kind of valuable comments sharing this stuff,
that type of thing, and have them respond to you, and you
respond back. So know that when you reach out to them in a
different context to try to work with them, they're familiar with
who you are. But is that enough to simply just reach out to them
after they're familiar with you. Well, they just say, Hey, I know
you. Let's do it. Let's be real. They are professionals, and it's
probably their full time business. I'm sure that they
would like to know that if they were to be working with somebody
and they bring somebody on board that they should be somewhat
capable, because otherwise it would just be more work for
them, which doesn't really make sense at all. Especially they're
going to pay you for your services. I mean, we expect them
to pay you. So what do you do, you need to have something to
show them. They need to have something to work with. and it's
totally understandable. If you haven't done any real events as
yet, because you are approaching them in the context of working
alongside them, so it wouldn't be expected. They don't have
your own big brand as yet you don't have a whole lot of
experience with that type of photography that they do, but
they need to see that you're trying at least. So what I'm
getting at is that you need to have somewhat of a mini
portfolio. Some of your best photos in there. But you can
have one look and say, Okay, let's let's have a conversation.
Now I always recommend that you start a photography website. And
over time, as you do more events more photography shoots always
continuously update your portfolio. Of course with the
latest best photos, and really, truly, it should be a collection
of your best variety of photos, not just a lot of the same type
of photos, and at the same time not just a large amount of
photos. In this case, less is more. Now if you want to put
together a website or have the time to do this. It doesn't take
a lot of time, just a little bit of groundwork to get it up and
running. and then it's simply just updating your photos, and
any information over time as needed. Now it costs a little
bit of money to get that up and running. So if you don't have
that as yet. Instagram is totally fine to get the ball
rolling. And it should be the platform that you would be
original engaging with them on. So, after you reach out to them,
and they know looking you up, they realize that you're already
following the account, and they can quickly, have a look at your
portfolio by just clicking on him, so they can quickly see
what you can do, how you're potentially capable of helping
them. I don't worry about the social proof right now, the
amount of likes, comments, isn't so important here, your pictures
are.
That is what is really important here, the photographer that
you're trying to work with is not your target audience for
your social proof right now, he or she is just concerned about
the type of photos, and the quality of photos that you can
produce really at that session, would be the chairman at, if you
are a good fit for working with our photographer, say you
haven't done a lot of shoots yet. Don't worry. But keep in
mind that time is still the essence. So start planning some
small projects small photography projects for whatever type of
photography that you're trying to get hired for. Make sure
though, and complete those projects, find the photos that
you want to take some kind of inspiration from. And of course,
recreate it in your own way. Be sure to get a variety of photos.
Now if you want to know a little bit more about how you can plan
your own photography projects, your concept shoots style
shoots, check out this video here. So to quickly recap, and
bring this into perspective, the hack I'm talking about here is
getting hired as a beginner photographer, working alongside
a professional photographer, and in order to get hired by that
professional photographer, you need to reach out to that pool.
Or at least, apply for the jobs, apply for those photography
assistant jobs, and what would help to improve your chances of
getting through to work with these professional
photographers, is by putting together a strategic portfolio
of your best work that you've done as a beginner photographer
and working as an assistant or second photographer is really a
great way, it's really a great way it's actually excellent to
learn all of the aspects of being a photographer from the
technical side. So all the way to the business side of things.
Now if you want some help with that last step that I mentioned
just now about putting some of the best shots together pretty
much doing it on your own without experience. And check
out this video next, where I talk about how you can quickly
build a photography portfolio with thought clients is going to
help you a lot in that process. So I hope you enjoyed this video
and I'll see you over there.