Question for all the pro aviation photographers in this group...

This question is directed to all the pro aviation photographers in this
newsgroup. You know who you are, the ones who every few months will pull a
contract for an airlines, sell a few prints to an owner, perhaps shoot a
local FOB for a contract.

What I am curious about is how do you market yourselves? How frequently do
you pull a lucrative contract?

I am asking because while we endure the cold winter months (in the northern
hemisphere) I am looking for new methods, or possible old methods
rediscovered for marketing my own business. So far much of what I have
pulled this past year has been word of mouth as opposed to any direct
marketing of my skills. Now granted a couple of them where very lucrative
but no where near strong enough to consider quitting my real job. I have
tried going door to door but if I even managed to get a smile from the
receptionist I thought I was doing very well. In the one or two instances
when I was doing the door to door bit the usually responses where "holy ****
you are really good"... Unfortunately the only thing conspicuous after the
meeting was the silence on my cell phone...

Many thanks in advance, and to keep it on topic for the NG I have included
an image of Dulles Airport...



Andrew

I think the best way is to live and own money with other photographic
activities and practice aviation photo as a hobby or as a complementary
activity.

Cheers,

RVB - http://www.rvb-photo.fr

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RVB -
http://www.cocardes.com .....aviation
http://www.hervebrun.com .....photo
;-)

"Andrew-S" I-Still-Hate-Spammers@Sorry-I had-to-leave-for-bit.com wrote
in :

This question is directed to all the pro aviation photographers in this
newsgroup. You know who you are, the ones who every few months will
pull a contract for an airlines, sell a few prints to an owner, perhaps
shoot a local FOB for a contract.

What I am curious about is how do you market yourselves? How frequently
do you pull a lucrative contract?

I am asking because while we endure the cold winter months (in the
northern hemisphere) I am looking for new methods, or possible old
methods rediscovered for marketing my own business. So far much of what
I have pulled this past year has been word of mouth as opposed to any
direct marketing of my skills. Now granted a couple of them where very
lucrative but no where near strong enough to consider quitting my real
job. I have tried going door to door but if I even managed to get a
smile from the receptionist I thought I was doing very well. In the one
or two instances when I was doing the door to door bit the usually
responses where "holy **** you are really good"... Unfortunately the
only thing conspicuous after the meeting was the silence on my cell
phone...



Maybe you should contact the photographers at
airliners.com and ask them. They seem to be pros,
but how much money they make is another matter.