Blog #29 - Guest Lecture (With Sophie Traynor)
After Sophie's workshop yesterday we were joined by her again for a seminar on what it is like to be a freelance photographer. The skills that go into it and how we can get ourselves started. Sophie herself Graduated in 2013 and has been a full time Freelance artist since 2016. She works closely with both studio and location seeming to be adaptable.
She talked through many aspects of Freelance, getting started, which area to delve into, taking jobs you don't really like to get the jobs you want, getting on retainer. all this information adding up into what I could possibly do once my degree is finished and I enter the industry myself.
One of the most important things Sophie talked about for me is having a trusted network. Starting to build it up from the get go and while you're still in education. From make up artists to to hairdressers and even stylists. Just being nice to the people you're working with is a great start and already boosts the network front. And the Second important point was practise. If you don't know how to do something practise before hand and not in front of the client, have a certain standard of working and keep to it.
All of this accumulated to be beginning to think about a freelance career once I have finished University as I am still unsure about where I would like to go within the art industry. Freelance is looking like a very likely option for me now though after this talk.
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