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The state of commercial photography

The state of commercial photography

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The state of commercial photography

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- I'm here today with commercial photographer RC Rivera in his lovely San Francisco studio. RC I'm going to cut right to the chase. You're a commercial photographer. You're doing well. I talk to a lot of commercial photographers who say this is a horrible industry to be in it's impossible, I can't survive, I, ahhhh. (laughs) I'm not even sure, I'm not even sure where to begin with this. How do you, what do you feel the state of this industry is right now? Is it a good time to be a commercial photographer? - In my opinion, I think it is. You know, there's so many new ways to show your work, you know, and, but I guess it's, in a lot of ways it's also bad, I mean. I'm fairly young in the game, and I'm lucky to be working. But it's, yeah, definitely, the industry is changing. It's fast. Budgets are getting smaller. And, you know, images live in, on internet, really, really quick. So the clients want more and…

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