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Specialties, and what they pay like

• Commercial and product

  Businesses paying for images they will use in advertising. The best paid corner of the field.

• Weddings and events

  High prices per job, weekends gone, and enormous pressure to get it right once.

• Real estate and architecture

  Fast, repeatable, and agents rebook constantly. An underrated steady income.

• Photojournalism

  Newspapers and wire services. Fewer staff jobs every year, and mostly freelance now.

• School, sports and volume portraits

  Unglamorous contract work that pays reliably while you build the rest.