Professional Photographer?

Don't plan on taking many photos. I'm not a pro myself, but I've read plenty of accounts from people who are, and one common theme is that you'll be lucky to spend 20 per cent of your time actually shooting. The rest will be processing, finding clients, and convincing your current clients to pay while fending off the intrusions of stupid little girls with beginner DSLRs who undercut you by a hundred percent and call themselves "photographers", etc.

Theoretically there is nothing to stop ANYONE from designating him-or-herself a professional photographer; you don't need a license like a doctor does. You set up a business according to the laws and regulations of where you live, and you hustle for clients. How you get clients is part of the skill; I don't know how the pros do it, but advertising hundred dollar engagement shoots on Facebook is probably not the best way to go about things.

In terms of learning and studying, you could argue it both ways. Chase Jarvis is a very good professional photographer from the States, but he was originally a student of something entirely different, philosophy or something, and he was also on a sports scholarship. Nothing at all to do with photography. He just decided that photography was what he wanted to do. He had a talent, which he polished relentlessly and worked incredibly, incredibly hard over several years before getting his break.

On the other hand some photographers have a background which relates directly to photography: Jay Maisel studied art at Yale with some serious heavyweights and Cartier-Bresson learned from some of the top artists of his time before picking up a camera. So there are multiple ways to get into it. I'd say that it can't hurt, but you shouldn't say "I have no art background so I can't" either.

To succeed you will need persistence, talent and the willingness to keep improving it, luck, connections, a very high tolerance for frustration, a willingness to not suffer fools gladly and the determination to keep at it. One reason I haven't seriously considered it is that I enjoy photography a very great deal, and I fear that doing it for a living could take that pleasure away.

In past times many pros had not attended any form of photo education, and some still make a living that way. So, give it a go, you are still young, and if it does not work out for you like that, well, start again, maybe with college. In some countries (Germany?) you do have to have qualifications to work as a photographer, so maybe check the law where you are.

But talking of the law, make sure you are well covered for professional insurance and similar, and that you do not break the law, e.g. by photographing people, especially children, without permission and then publishing the pics - publishing includes internet.

Note that your "people skills" will be at least as important as your camera skills.

Good luck.

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When I was college getting my degree in photojournalism, the best photographer in our class was a philosophy major who went on to be a successful PJ with a major newspaper. I don't know what he's doing now, but considering that PJ is dead I bet he wished he majored in something that he could use to get another job. Honestly, he's probably teaching like the a lot of other PJs that I went to school with and have lost their jobs to writers with iPhones. Chicago Sun Times fire all but one photographer and has resorted to using pictures from social media and their reporters' shots with their smartphones.

So, as you stated, you need to go to college, but do yourself a favor and have a backup plane just in case this photography thing just doesn't work out for you. I wish I had...

You don't ned any diplomas. All you need is to be an exceptional photographer and know all the physics and functions of photography.

You will also need a firm grasp of running a business.

It's not easy as every one carries a camera these days and they all think of them selves as "professional"

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