Comments on: Life As A Workaholic Commercial Photographer

By: Josie Giordano

Josie Giordano — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:39:00 +0000

Thank you thank you thank you for posting these quotes. Its nice to see others who are sucessful went through the same struggles I am currently facing. Just going to keep working as hard as possible… thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Noah Schäfer

Noah Schäfer — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 06:06:00 +0000

Thanks for the inspiring post. I just started my own business last year and what your wrote there sounds very familiar (not the aston martin, private jets and partys, obviously). Case in point – this new years eve I sat on my computer editing the photos I took on my last asignment – the same on christmas by the way. On the few opportunities I have to get out and have a drink with my friends I find myself thinking about new ideas for future asignments, or how I could edit this one picture differently to really get it to shine.
I quite my dayjob 6 month ago to be a photographer fulltime, and for all the worries about clients and equipment and money and bookings – It was the most freeing and overall best decision I have ever made.

By: Andrew Griswold

Andrew Griswold — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:18:00 +0000

Wow, just so amazing to hear the inside story to your lifestyle and work. Just a true inspiration and its nice to see you have stayed humble with all the fancy things given to you over your career and that you still find ture passion in what you do! Keep up the great work and Ill continue to follow you and your work!

-gris

By: vonwong

vonwong — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:42:00 +0000

nice one doug, glad to see you put it out there ! Mildly bummed that it doesn’t get any easier after 10 years though, hahahaha.

No but seriously, I’m not sure if I could work less hard if I wanted to :|

By: pete sutton

pete sutton — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 00:04:00 +0000

You don’t go into photography for the money. If you want to be successful in the business it is hard work. 90% business and if you are lucky 10% photography. find your own voice and market the hell out of it!
PeteSuttonFineArt.com

By: thatwerks

thatwerks — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 20:26:00 +0000

He’s got a point, fstoppers is one of my daily stops online. Makes sense to post here. Not that I don’t like the Sonders site, too!

By: Nathaniel Dodson

Nathaniel Dodson — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 19:37:00 +0000

Great post, Doug! Love all the info you’re sharing!! ”Work 1000x times harder than your competition…” -That is gold. Thanks for sharing!!

By: douglassonders

douglassonders — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:54:00 +0000

One of the wonderful parts of being recruited for Fstoppers is that I can share what I do and my thoughts with a much larger audience than I would on my own social media. What I get in traffic to my blog over one month, Fstoppers gets in 1 day. I value those that have regularly followed my blog and I will continue to write fresh content on both sites. I have had a few blog posts that I did on my personal site that I thought were worthy of sharing with the rest of the photo world such as: Career Tips For New And Emerging Photographers, and Why We Photographers / Creatives Should Look Out For Each Other. Dont you think those are worth sharing? It seems that the community has enjoyed reading those posts so far, especially those that have never seem them before.

By: photogErk

photogErk — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:45:00 +0000

Informative, but is there a reason you’re just copy and pasting blog posts from you own blog here, as opposed to writing new pieces for the website?

By: Luke Burke

Luke Burke — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:59:00 +0000

Great post! I appreciate all the feedback from your friends as well