Hello

depends on which venture, non-commercial or commercial, or even both. In my opinion geographic location will strongly have influence if it is worth even trying or not. As I posted in a earlier post about ROI in glamour photography its very tough to get a positive ROI in my geographic location from glamour and boudoir which I mix them as both for non-commercial. But I honestly didn't intensely push and proceed the market because the amount of choices clients have from their preferred gender as female photographers than male photographers which is beyond understanding hence why I stepped aside and let the female photographers take it as I cannot compete against them. But from my case its different I live in a rural/suburban area, if I lived in a big city/urban area like NYC, Philly, etc. then I can have a greater chance at still get some piece of the market than in my current case here in the middle of nowhere pretty much.

The other option at least for me would be competing for international/national clients in the publication markets, but even then from what I've heard is extremely tight nit group of photographers and even then pay is extremely unfair in my opinion. Such as pay for a cover $200-$400 depending the brand awareness and circulation that magazine publication has at that time even though they charge $100k-$200k for advertisements...