If you are technically savvy and happiest when you are putting your imagination to use, photography may be the career for you.

“Martin Short came over and I said, ‘Martin, take your off your pants and straddle that leaf on my tree.’ Matthew Broderick came over and I got him out of his pants, too,” says renowned commercial photographer Bonnie Schiffman who gained fame through numerous Rolling Stone magazine covers and spreads and movie posters.

Creativity spawns great photographs but actually making a career out of photography isn’t fun and games. According to the United States Department of Labor, more than half of all photographers are self-employed.

“You’re giving people the idea that everything is perfect when really you are planning out the next job and the job after that and talking to them at the same time and making sure the cameras are set up right and the lighting is technically right. It’s really almost like having ten people in your head [at once],” says portrait photographer Rikka Zimmerman, owner of Rikka Zimmerman Photographers, a Santa Barbara, California-based wedding photography business.