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The Life of a Professional Freelance Photographer Janette Pellegrini

Janette Pellegrini’s photography went from passion to career!

As a little girl living in New York, Janette Pellegrini was sad when she found
out that her play camera didn’t take real photos. Going through school she
always had a camera on her, and was highly involved with her school’s newspaper.
It was then, that her mom suggested that she take up a career in photography.
Janette Pellegrini decided to take her up on it, and headed over to college to
learn to become a professional photographer.

Even while in college, Janette Pellegrini had a part time job working at a 30
minute photo store. Though once she got out of college, she found that working a
normal 9-5 desk job / photographer was not the life for her. On the first day of
her brand new full time job as a photographer, she got a phone call to go do a
photo shoot for one of her favorite bands. She decided to ditch work to go do
the unpaid shoot, and never looked back. Within a week she had removed herself
from the strings of a full-time position to freelance permanently.

Along the way she has had to deal with many of the pitfalls of freelancing.
Included in that is a steady pay check and scheduling issues with friends and
family. Another issue that Janette Pellegrini had to deal with was the fact that
she was not well equipped for the digital era that was just getting started as
she exited college. So, being behind the eight ball, she had to learn most of
what it takes to survive in the digital age on her own, and she feels she is
made better for it. By knowing the analog process of photos, she understands
photography at it’s core, but admits a class on digital photography at the very
least would have been nice.

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a dreamer who was living their dreams

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welcome to the dreamers podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m

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interviewing to net Pellegrini who was
living hurry through photography welcome

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the show Jeanette Hey Joe thanks for
having me thank you for coming on i

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really appreciate it when we get started
by giving some background about yourself

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okay well I currently live in long
island new york a 40 minute drive away

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from one of the greatest cities in the
world currently work as a freelance

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photographer pretty much divide my time
up between you know photographing events

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parties my do portraits of kids with the
sports photos like know the little

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league baseball cards but predominantly
the thing that I love doing the most

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where my big passion lines is in
entertainment photography photographing

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concerts live bands i love doing theater
Broadway pretty much anything that

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involves the stage i’m happiest in front
of the stage with camera in hand

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capturing whatever is transpiring on it
in front of my eyes

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