Freelance photography can be a highly (36) career and can potentially take you around the world. The scope for work is large, as well as the traditional sources of (37) and newspapers. The increase in Internet usage has opened up another (38) for you to sell your work or gain ongoing (39) . The digital age has (40) the use of traditional camera with the ongoing development of digital cameras, and therefore reduced the use of the old dark room (41) that were time (42) and potentially damaging to health due to the toxic chemicals used to process pictures from film.
At the time of writing (2004) the use of colour photography is not yet 100 years old, the first (43) colour films being produced by the Lumiere Brothers in France in 1907. (44) with the introduction of the first digital cameras in the mid 1990’s. This has reduced a lot of the burden and overheads of traditional photography. Digital cameras now allow you to see the images you have taken before leaving the scene and allow you to see the results of setting changes leaving no excuse for low quality images! In the early days of digital cameras the resolution was not good enough for professional images, (45) their old SLR cameras for a digital equivalent.
This is excellent news for the budding freelance photographer as equipment costs and developing times have been slashed. With a quality camera available for around ￡500 upwards and (46) , the initial set up charges for your business can be fairly low.