how to become a professional photographer?

[Steve P]

Nice fantasy. The reality is that you and millions of other people have the same idea. It seems that every person alive now with any kind of camera considers themselves a photographer with photos that they think people want to buy. The market is FLOODED with photos. Some good, many awful. The problem is the overwhelming glut of awful photos makes it real hard for good work to be found and seen. Even when good work is found by someone, the economic climate in the world today is not conducive for people to part with their money for photos with no personal reason. In other words, the majority of money spent on photos is for things like weddings or personal portraits or personal events and the like.

You will have better luck selling if you make quality prints of your work with good framing and try to sell them locally in a cafe or art gallery (if accepted) or at art fairs and such.

Putting your photos online at places like Etsy or Fine Art America just puts you in line with millions of other people thinking they are going to make easy money. That is simply not the reality of it. If it were that easy, there would be a massive amount of people walking around with money falling out of their pockets.

... and by the way, hate to break the news to you, but your camera is a joke in relation to what you THINK it is.

steve