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Do you have enough ideas on
photography? There are many
specialty opportunities for ambitious
photographers where you can venture into
and make good cash.
Attorneys:
There is a series of detective
novels that feature the adventures of a
private detective who can’t pay
his bills, so he moonlights for a liability
attorney. His job: to photograph
accident victims and locales to return to
the barrister to see if there is
sufficient evidence for a lawsuit.
These novels may be fiction, but
most writing is grounded in reality.
Certainly that is the case here.
How many trials revolved around
photographs of evidence or
victims?
Attorneys need this kind of
photography. In many cases, it isn’t for the
weak stomach. There are car
crashes, fires and other difficult situations
into which you’ll be thrust. You
have to want to do this type of work. If
you do, there’s plenty of it out
there for you.
Start by contacting attorneys in
town and sending them a resume and
samples of your work. While
they’re not looking for great art with these
photos, they want reliable
pictures and photographers who will know
what angles to shoot and who can
make snap judgments at a scene.
Scheduling flexibility will be
important here. If you hold down a regular
job and are running your
photography-based business part-time, this may
not be a practical area of
specialty. Lawyers can’t necessarily predict
when these photos will be needed
any more than you can forecast the
weekend horse races. An accident will
occur and you’ll be needed.
Expect late night calls and the
need to drop what you’re doing (within
reason) and rush to a scene.
Since this information may well
be used as evidence, you will need to be
accurate in your written
description of the photograph as well as precise
in noting exact time and date for
the record. Sign the back of your photos
so that you can easily identify
them if called on to testify in a court of
law. This also prevents other
pictures from