JT Spunk | Photography

Anyone out there in the field of digital photography/digital imaging?

I am going back to school and studying photography and image manipulation. I’m from a small town of about 15,000, and I’d like to see what market is out there. Not much opportunity to work for others here, but I could open my own shop. Any ideas? I love to take pics of people rather than scenery, and I love Photoshop

There’s not a lot of artistic work in this department, but you can find a job doing digital prepress for print houses and photo labs. I have had jobs in the past doing digital imaging for a commercial photographer who did a lot of work with ad agencies. I’ve worked at photo labs doing digital retouching, and placing images into photo lab christmas and sports cards. I have also worked scanning and color correcting negatives, slides and images in photoshop (a skill worth learning). There is also always a need for people good at all kinds of digital printing and calibration, which is more technical than artistic, but lucrative. You can also try and see if photo restoration is popular in your area.

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