Photography as a business enterprise

I’m Larry Moskowitz and you may know me from the photographs I’ve taken or the workshops I’ve held. I have a photography business, in which I mainly shoot products. But on many occasions I branch out to different types of shoots just to keep my creative juices flowing.

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 But what I really want to discuss today is how photography for me turned from being a hobby into a profession. I started taking pictures of the things that fascinated me in my old neighborhood when I was 13. Then I volunteered to photograph events for my high school. It was fun and every day was an adventure. Of course, things weren’t as high-tech back then, even though a few cameras had phones and digital photography was already on the rise.

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College was no different. At this point though, I began to seriously consider a career in photography since my course taught me a lot about business. I knew it would take a lot of hard work and I knew I shouldn’t expect much for the first few years. So, after college, I got an office job while I still photographed events and products during my off-hours.

I didn’t buy all my equipment at one go. I bought them little by little until I was confident I had all I needed to start the business, my portfolio included. It’s a good thing I made friends with many of the companies whose products I had shot back in college. They were still willing to work with me.
And that is how I started Larry Moskowitz Photography.

Larry Moskowitz is a professional photographer focused on stock photos for sale, as well as nature photography. He is married and has a son and a daughter. For more on Larry and his interests, visit this page.