Automotive photo student

[Evan Lovell]

My names Evan and I'm a photo student in the northwest and working strictly in automotive photography. My goal is to work in portraits and publishing to magazines. The reason I'm posting is I'm looking for help and advice on networking and approaching companies to publish my work.

[John Thawley]

What's a magazine?

Kidding... kind of. You need to make sure you're developing an online and electronic mindset... it is the future. Also, if you're seriously looking at editorial work, you'd better take some writing courses too. The days of making it just on photography are pretty much a thing of the past.

Networking is networking. It's no different in photography than any other industry. You need to meet people who'll introduce you to people and you need to work at it.

DO NOT send companies / publishers emails... UNLESS you're notifying them that your print portfolio is on the way. You can send them online portfolios or links... but they better be no more than 12 UNIQUE - QUALITY - KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF images with zero redundancy. If you send them a gallery of the last shoot you did or event you attended .... or a flashy website slide show of 50-100 images... they'll click off and delete your name.

Seriously, if you get one of these editors to look... you better have no more than 8-12 images and each one better be all-world. Like the rest of us.. these guys are busting their ass to make ends meet... they don't have time for babysitting or auditions.

Not trying to discourage you... just making you aware of REALITY! Good luck!

JT

[Eric McClellan]

Evan, with all due respect, with one post on the site you basically want us to give you what has taken me almost 3 years to develop. Editors answer my emails, constantly. Because they know i'm good for it.

I got one of those 'lucky' breaks and now I can pretty much pick up jobs when I want them. I've been offered book deals and gotten a hell of a lot of stuff out of all of this including money and parts.

You can look at my portfolio if you want, it doesn't even include the best stuff I have honestly. I'm just too damn lazy to update it any time lately. Editors have said my portfolio is good and sold them on my work.

I can't teach you how to network, that's on your own. But, i'm sorry I can't help you other than to say, "If i told you how to do it, I'd be robbing you of the experience".

~Eric