Get Something Different

You know what it’s like……

You turn up at an event ready to shoot and there are another 20 photographers there already.  There are the Agencies, the “Wanna be’s” and the Freelancers.  The match is about to begin and everyone heads for the touchline.  The home team is playing from left to right and the anticipation of a handfull of tries/ goals is high.  What happens?  Well all the photographers head for the same spot and stand next to each other.  Great.  If it happens everyone gets the shot.  The agencies all have it and wire it out immediately, The “Wanna be’s” have it for their desktop to say they were there and the freelancers have it in the hope that someone will buy it.  Why should they?  What makes you different?

If you want your work to be published and to be successful try something different.  Look at your market,  If your local market is saturated with the other 20 photographers go and stand on your own at the other end.  The newspapers in that team’s home town also want pics (and the internet and email makes distance no object).  They also need a scoop.  Imagine if they start scoring/ winning, you can sit back and watch the other photographers gather their gear and run down the touchline towards you.

Be the one that gets something different!