So I have been offered a great opportunity but....

Do what you love to do. When you're old and wrinkled you don't want to think about what you didn't do, but what you did do.

ps nice pix!

Thank you... That is how I was thinking however my biggest concern is if it will bring in enough money!

Does anyone here run their own photography business?

Shewolf is a photog. Struggling to establish herself.

Hate to be negetive but its easy to take nice photos. Finding an edge and finding a market is much much harder,
Weddings and family portaraits pay the bills.

What I suggest is being an amature photographer in your spare time selling to family and friends and friends of friends until you develop your confidence.

I think your photos are lovely!

Home studios are notoriously tricky to operate. The people I know who have been most successful with it are portrait photographers who have more of a studio-home (live over or under or hidden somewhere inside the studio which is located in a commercial area) than a home-studio.

Quality digital cameras have become so inexpensive and easy to operate with computer programs that will fix every mistake that most people just do their own photography. Even many of the well established photographers are having a hard time making a living with it, especially if they limit themselves to studio work.

What kind of photography are you hoping to do? Think long and hard about it. You have to have something that sets you apart enough that people will travel to you to get it.

I don't take photos but a good friend who works for a professional photographer is worried that they'll have to close the business for the very reasons that boomer was describing. They used to have a lucrative school pictures and wedding business. The work for the schools brings in some bookings in the fall, but the wedding business has all but disappeared.

One of my friends also has a home based photography studio and she's
not really making any money, it doesn't stop her though. She started volunteering at the local animal shelters and takes pictures of the dogs to be adopted and she's quite successful there - but as I said, it's a volunteer positon, no money involved.