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Old 12-19-2008, 03:53 AM
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UnlimitedAkro
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Best of luck to you selling photos of airplanes. If you are good enough to take quality photos worth selling, you would not be dabbling in airplanes. There just is no market for it.

If you want to become a photographer that takes pictures of airplanes, and actually make a little side money try to get hired as a freelance photographer for a magazine like Flying, AOPA, Aviation, there are probably more than 100 magazines out there dealing with aviation. One prerequisite most of them require is some kind of writting or journalism backround, but it is not always required. There are full time jobs, and I know a few who do it on the side to their professional aviation career.

Most of the guys who do those assignments travel to some location to meet the owner, do some kind of light formation flight and snap a couple hundred photos, then take some photos on the ground inside the airplane and outside usually just before or during sunset. Photographer goes home, edits photos, writes article, magazine takes the article and edits it, and eventually publishes it. Photographer gets another assignment.

If you have more questions fire away.
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