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Legitimately, a lot of ways.Photography is a massive industry with numerous applications in nearly every industry. Behind uncountable marketing campaigns, newspapers, magazines, websites, there is a booming industry….. it’s just highly competitive which is why you’ll generally find negative responses on this topic from other photographers..Now, before I begin to list the ways, please understand one absolutely critical element to ALL of this:The number one way to make money as a photographer is to be excellent in business and marketing.If you suck at running a business and are horrible at marketing, don’t even bother to start your own photography business, yet. I don’t care how good you are. It won’t make a difference. Get good at business or find a partner that is and team up.Now onto the list. Mind you, this is not all inclusive, but it’s a good start.1. Sell your photos.I know, I get it. Selling your photos is the most generic answer… that’s why I started with it, to get it out of the way.There are a few different ways to sell your photos. You can choose to sell them online through a website, or through websites that offer reselling services. You could also sell them through art shows, local coffee shops, cafes, street selling, etc.. I mean honestly, you could travel to San Francisco for two weeks, print photos at Bay Photo and sell your photos at the Golden Gate lookout to tourists from all over the world and make some decent cash.. I’ve seen people do it. Doesn’t mean they’re immensely successful but that’s one of the many ways.2. Fashion Photography3. Real Estate Photography4. Automotive Photography5. Product Photography6. Portraits/Maternity/Headshots/Boudoir7. Fashion & Entertainment Photography8. Wedding Photography (and engagement)9. School Portraits & Graduation/Prom Photography10. Stock Photography licensing11. Blogging/Tutorial/YouTube etc.12. Celebrity/Paparazzi work13. Freelancing/Editorial for Newspapers/Magazines/Publications14. Offer Photography Workshops/Tours15. Event Photography16. Sports Photography17. Photography Contests18. Aerial/Drone Photography (In association with above genres)19. Photography book/ebook publishing/sales20. Greeting Cards/Postcards/Keychains etc.I’m sure there are others, but that’s a good start.The fact is, any one of those can be a career for any respectable photographer. There are numerous ways to not only make money, but to make a lot of money, in any one of them. Yes, it’s not easy and you shouldn’t expect success to come without massive levels of commitment and impossibly hard work…. but eventually, with enough time and effort, you’ll make it.Hope this helped.

My wedding cost $2,300 exactly and I was issued a refund by check from the venue for $160 afterwards for guests who never showed up. I planned my wedding shortly after my maid of honor had just been married and her FLOWERS alone had cost $4,700.Here's how I did it:I wanted a REAL venue. My husband had been married before when he was a teenager. He and his ex-wife were married at an Elk's Lodge which anyone can rent for an evening for $50-$100. There was no on-site kitchen and they didn't pay for a caterer. It was like a potluck wedding where guests brought dishes of food. I did not want that. Being a second wife for my husband, I wanted to be taken seriously. His first marriage was his only relationship ever and he was married right out of high school and it was always perceived as two kids who had no idea what they were doing. I chose a venue that was reasonably priced - the room was included when you paid for the food. I paid $12.50 per plate/guest. It was table service and it felt like a grown up, real event, not a prom or a potluck dinner. Maybe it was my own vanity or maybe I had something to prove but I was determined to have a real wedding and not something people would mock or dismiss as silly, rushed or frivolous.Our ceremony was held at our church for free and our wedding was officiated by our pastor at the time, who was a friend of ours. We paid nothing for those services.I ordered silk bouquets, flowers and centerpieces online including my “toss” bouquet. I had 3 bridesmaids, 3 groomsmen and a flower girl and I paid $53 for everything and the flowers looked real. I still have my bouquet saved.I got my dress at a David's Bridal sale for $150. At the time, it was exactly what I wanted. I was 23 and wanted to look like a fairy tale princess.I paid $400 in installments for my cake. It was delicious, looked professional and was delivered to our reception without incident.My husband is a musician so we had a friend be our emcee/dj. He used a MacBook with a Playlist that I completely designed specifically for our wedding. Every song that play was hand selected by us, which was a huge advantage and made for a beautiful soundtrack for our evening.My landlord at the time had a brother who owned a limousine company. For $300 we were given a stretch limo to my ceremony for the girls plus a town car that picked my husband and I up from our reception and brought us to our hotel for the night. I tipped both drivers $20 each.I used Priceline to name my own price for a 5 star hotel suite on our wedding night. Since we live in a tiny state with only two 5 star hotels, I knew I'd get one or the other and didn't have a preference. I got a $600 room for $72 plus tax.I have an online store on Kaleidoscope where I've always earned a little bit of money off of sales I've made. I used the commission I earned to design custom refrigerator magnets with our names and wedding dates to give to guests as favors. It's been almost 9 years and every guest I've visited since our wedding still has our magnets on their fridge. Magnets were an ingenious idea because everyone keeps and uses them. It made more sense than candy/snacks or anything else that would have been forgotten about the day after our wedding. We had magnets from pizza places that no longer existed on our fridge so we thought “People will definitely take these home and use them indefinitely.” I used my earnings to pay for them but if I hadn't, it would've cost me about $80.We had a cash bar and didn't do a champagne toast, which would have cost $200 more. We didn't deem it necessary to have free alcohol at our wedding.I was previously an intermediate makeup artist but didn't want the stress of doing my own makeup to fall to me on my 102 degree wedding day. I enlisted the help of a local salon and paid $130 for bridal hair and makeup on my wedding day. I was able to get a package so all of my bridesmaids had their hair and makeup done for $20/each.And now, the best and biggest savings: my maid of honor's father, Gene, has been a professional photographer for Lifetouch for 20+ years. At my maid of honor’s wedding a year earlier, I befriended her photographer, Natalie, who was her father's business partner. As a wedding gift to me, my maid of honor, Gene and Natalie offered 8 hours of photography services as a wedding gift to us. Natalie handled all the girls getting ready images, Gene went with the guys to get ready and then they both captured images of our ceremony and reception together. As an extra gift, Natalie digitally edited all of the photos and then Gene called me 6 weeks later with a leather-bound custom wedding album of all my photos plus an 11 x 17 framed portrait. They are wonderful people and I'm forever grateful for their generosity.Not included in this price breakdown was our honeymoon which I paid $1,160 for. We went to Manhattan for 10 days, 9 nights. Since we live in New England, we took a bus to NYC which was $60 round trip. I went on Priceline every day for months to name my own price for a Manhattan hotel, which aren't cheap. If you aren't familiar with the name your own price option, you choose the dates, areas you're willing to stay and hotel star levels you're willing to accept and then name the price you're willing to pay per day. You don't know the exact streets or name of the hotel you'll get until your price is accepted and you've already paid. It's a huge gamble in big cities like NYC. For our wedding night, I knew I'd get one of two hotels since we only have two in our capital city but in NYC, you have to be cautious of the areas you choose. Since we know the city pretty well and knew where we wanted to stay, we limited our search to Hells Kitchen and Midtown and our star levels to 2 1/2 or above. If your price isn't accepted the first time, you can only make changes to your selection 2 more times (and you can't remove areas, you can only broaden your search) before you have to wait 24 hours to try again. I tried every day for months to get a hotel for 9 nights for an affordable rate but had no luck. I didn't want to expand my search to Brooklyn or Soho or other areas outside of the Times Square/Theater District area so I had to keep trying or eventually give in and pay $3,000 for a room for 9 nights. One day, 3 weeks before our wedding, my price was accepted for a hotel for 9 nights in the exact area we wanted for $1,100 total. If I go to the website of the hotel and book a room, it's $336 per night for the same room we had. It was a huge savings and a gamble worth taking to have saved so much money. We used money we had received as wedding gifts to cover the cost of food and entertainment for the duration of our honeymoon which was about $600.If I had to do it all over again, some details might have changed and since we're not as restricted financially, I may have spent more on other things like my dress or the food. I wouldn't have spent less, however, unless I could have had the same quality of event for less money. Ultimately, I was marrying my husband anywhere, wearing a potato sack dress and sneakers if I had no other options. I didn't care about appearances or what my wedding looked like but I cared about it feeling like more than just a regular Saturday night. I wouldn't go back and skip the big celebration because it was one of the only (and last) times our entire family united together for a beautiful thing. I've lost many relatives and friends since then and I'm grateful to have been able to share and celebrate that day with them in the grand way I wanted to. We'll never have a big celebration like that again unless/until one of our children are married so it was worth every penny we spent on it. I could and would have had to spend more if I wasn't so fortunate to have friends who helped me put it all together affordably.Depending what you want and what your views are, $50 or $50,000 might be the right price for a wedding for you. We were able to encompass our vision for under $3,000 which - at the time, in proportion to our income - was a lot of money for us.The most important thing is your marriage, not your wedding day. Things can and will go wrong and it's important to compromise and make sure you and your partner are both comfortable with the type of wedding you plan. My husband was happy to elope or get married at City Hall but also excited to plan an elegant, elaborate event if that's what I wanted. Having never been married, never gone to a prom or formal event, I wanted to have a more traditional wedding that felt like a big milestone. It doesn't make any other choices right or wrong; it was just what was right for us.We're actually thinking of renewing our vows in 2018 and I'm excited to plan that event. We're planning to keep it more intimate, with just us and our children present. We loved each other beyond comprehension when we got married but since our wedding day, our marriage and partnership has grown, matured and developed into something deeper than we could have anticipated. I'm eager to celebrate a decade of marriage together and pledge to many more decades together.

I think you are looking to determine what extracurricular activities did we do to attract the attention of an elite university.As someone who has interviewed freshman applicants to MIT for a Long time, I believe that my experience is pretty typical:From 7th - 12th grade, I and one of my best friends were the top two students academically. We even started at MIT together (he transferred out to do something completely different, was valedictorian of another private college, got his PhD in Counseling Psychology and headed up the student services at Claremont Colleges for many years....} I continued through graduate school at MIT and work as a senior aerospace engineer.In high school, I did it all. I burned the candle at both ends and the middle and still did more.Started most of the clubs and organizations in my relatively new school and led them to statewide recognition within a couple of years. This included the Key Club for student service and we won recognition in the state of NY.Co-editor of the school paper and photography editorPhotography editor of the school year book, taking most of the candid pictures that appeared in the bookStudent government. Not only a leader in the government, but we organized a "two party system" in my high school and I was one of the leaders of one of the party's and we thoroughly explored the democratic experience for the four years I was there.Class Officer and organizer of the junior prom and senior ball for my class and the junior prom for the class behind mine.In charge of most of the A-V equipment for the entire schoolAs a junior and a senior, I assisted in teaching some of the 9th and 10th grades classes (any subject required)Starting junior year, I worked part-time at McDonalds during the school year and full time during the summers. My manager wrote a glowing recommendation for me to MIT, as I quickly mastered all of the many job functions at our store, and when the owner started a new store 15 miles away, I was part of the team sent to train the new managers and workersIf the school had an academic team (math, high school bowl, etc.) I was on it.The high school offered night classes at a near-by college, and I took two.I was lucky that the school was relatively new. However, like anyone who gets admitted to a top university, I knew what I could do, and applied in furiously across everything that I did, including school and community service. I never said No. I only said, "when do you really need this?"There are 168 hours in the week, and people who are admitted to top universities know how to use each and every hour to its fullest..........I hope this provides some in-sight.