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So You Say You Want To Turn Pro?
We amateurs who shoot for ourselves have it easy. We can do "professional" work if we want to. In fact, 75% of the photographers who call themselves "pros" really aren't — they're just people who get paid for their work every now and then. That doesn't make them pros. A pro, by my definition, is somebody who works full time at photography and makes 80% of his living selling his pictures. We amateurs can also work for ourselves, find our own subjects, follow our own interests. And of course we can shoot anything at all. Portraits, snapshots, architecture, still life, landscapes, whatever.

Amateurs can shoot anything they want to, including the occasional still life. A pro probably wouldn't make this shot unless he were being paid by the Peach and Lemon Grower's Association. (Sony F-707)
Every now and then, I hear some amateur musing about how he's contemplating a "career change" to professional photography. I've got ...

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