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fiveyes · 10-16-2002, 05:19 PM

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Originally posted by Rictor
I'm part owner of a chain of comic book stores but it is not a business you want to go into if you want to make good money.

Might I suggest something in photography? My brother-in-law isn't that great of a photographer and he doesn't have the best equipment...but he makes a nice side income doing it. There is also a big demand for wedding videos.

Also, I know a guy that supplements his income doing portfolios for local models for $100 an hour. Pretty girls paying YOU to take photos of them is a nice switch.

Photography can be very lucrative, even more so with digital cameras- where you're not having to pay for the cost of developing and printing of each shot.

I know a lawyer-during-the-day doing the photographer-at-night bit in the strip clubs here with digital equipment. After a shoot, he walks through a slide show of images that he got and sells the prints that the girls decide will help their "modelling career".

He doesn't just get the dancers, but goes for the cocktail waitresses and barmaids as well. Most of his "work" doesn't realize anything else than the pleasure of shooting but his completely-amateur approach, coupled with a genuine interest in the subjects, has had returns.

Since it's more of a hobby with him than anything else, he invests all his profits back into his equipment and has worked his way up to the point that he's now renting a studio location in an artists' co-op for the occasional inhouse shoot (most of his work is at the models' homes or place of business), has about 5K invested in lighting, 3K in props and backdrops, and works a Canon EOS 1D back with a variaty of frontends: All bought and paid for with proceeds from his "hobby" in the past year, which he started with about a $300 outlay for a basic "point-n-shoot" digital camera that still sees action.

Now, if I could just think of a way short of murder to get my hand on his originals...