Starting a business involving photography can demand a lot of hard work and financial investment -- such as purchasing professional-grade camera bodies, lenses, flashes, lights and other equipment -- but it may be worth it if you are passionate about photography and entrepreneurship. Explore the range of photography business options to determine which is best-suited to your strengths, photographic style, location and interests.
Wedding Photography
You can market your services as a wedding photographer if you are genuinely enthusiastic about documenting a couple's special day. Your income from a wedding photography business will include your fee for actually shooting the event, along with add-ons like engagement photos, boudoir photos, albums and commemorative items printed with photos you took. Expenses involved in running a wedding photography business include travel to meetings and weddings, marketing efforts -- like attending bridal expos and having a website -- and photo equipment maintenance and replacement.
Travel Photo Tours
If you have experience in the group travel industry, enjoy leading groups and boast travel photography expertise, you can launch a business leading travel photo tours. Travel photo tours can range from daylong jaunts of photographing scenic highlights in your city, to two-week expeditions to places like Patagonia or Bhutan. Alternate photo tour topics could include adventure sports photography and nature photography.
Portrait Photography
A portrait business -- including shooting family portraits, holiday portraits, baby portraits and graduation portraits -- could be the right business venture if you thrive on human interaction and like the idea of helping families preserve their milestones and memories. Most portrait photographers operate out of a studio, but you could also specialize in outdoor shoots. One way to boost the income of a portrait photography business is offering specialty shoots, such as vintage glamour portraits, fairy portraits or Old West portraits.
Sports Photo Mementos
If you love sports photography but dislike the travel, long hours and low pay that often accompany newspaper sports photography work, you can form a business shooting photos of sporting events and selling prints and commemorative merchandise printed with those images. Such a business can thrive if you are able to partner with a consistent source of events and customers, like an affluent private school or a local university.
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