Welcome

Hi and welcome to "A Working Photographer". This is going to be my blog that documents my attempt to break into the working photographer profession. I'll be posting up my experiences through out this mission of mine as well as keeping a running tab of money spent and money made so maybe one day some one wanting the same carreer change and experience can use this for a little bit of reference.

A little bit about me can be found after the link.


My name is Corbin William Kronk. Most of my friends and aquaintances call me Will. I've been dabbling in photography since I was about 16 or 17 and a junior in high school. It was purely film back then. In fact, I still have my Minolta Maxxum HTSI with my Quantary 70-300 lens sitting downstairs in my basement with a set of dead batteries in it.

At about that point in my photography fascination, it was mainly point and shoot and develop at Wal-Mart. I had no formal education in photography and have never touched a dark room. After I graduated, I signed up for Shepherd College as an IT major and wanted to take a few photography classes. Unfortunately, you had to have a photography major or minor to pretty much even get into the classes which left me with nothing but general studies. I really regret that. I think if I would have been able to get into the classes, I wouldn't have wasted 4 years on learning something that I ended up hating.

Anyways...Until about two years ago, I really hadn't touched a camera as everything was digital and the point and shoots didn't have the control I wanted in a camera. Plus this was back when entry level digital meant Canon Digital Rebel and $1000. But I inherited a used Digital Rebel and that's where it all began. I shortly moved up to a 30D and a 50mm f/1.8. The roots. About two or three months of owning the camera I really felt like this is what I could do with the rest of my life and be happy, so much so that at that point, monetary earnings wouldn't be an issue once I got my financial status straight.

In October of 2007, I started poking around on several forums and trying to learn about lighting after unsuccessfully attempting to photograph a friend of mine and having all her pictures turn out looking pretty horrible. I then found my gold mine, The Strobist Blog. This gem of a site was exactly what I was looking for as well as many other photographers out there. I started reading and within weeks had my first flash and set of Pocket Wizard Plus II's. I was ready to go.

Fast forward six months to now and I've already got a decent portfolio, one paid shoot under my belt, and the drive to start really doing this. I feel like I've increased my knowledge and skills a hundred fold since findind that site and learning about lighting and how to get the shot I want regardless of the conditions. So here I am.

I'm 26, a photographer that thinks he's a hotshot and that's really the anti-christ of modesty. I know I'm good and I want to see how far I can take this.