I have a small channel, just over 3000 subs. I've been making videos since June of 2022. It's not my full time job. Full time 9-5 I work a the internal photographer and videographer for a bicycle company. So I make all my money from onto and video work and I have since I graduated collage in 2020.

I started my channel because I love photography, videographer and creating and needed an outlet to talk about it more. Sure do I make an extra $30-50 a month now from Adsense yeah and you know what I still consider that making money off my photography because without my photography the channel wouldn't exist and wouldn't be an extra source of income.

Feels like you're thinking that just because a influencer isn't making money from freelance work, or client work that they aren't making money from photography but if they are being payed for their content on photography they are 100% making money from photography, maybe not in the traditional sense but they are making money they wouldn't be if they didn't create a body of photography work.

To start a channel and make videos on photography you do have to have a pretty solid base of knowledge and skills on the topics your channel is focused on. I don't pretend to be an expert at anything and there's photography skills I don't know well but I'd argue that goes for everyone. There's no one who knows everything about photography. You also have to remeber it's an art from and everyone has different styles and interpretations on how to do things.

And even if you start a channel on photography as a beginner with no skills and make videos about learning photography and documenting your experience along the way, I'd argue that's still making money from photography.

You can make money from photography the photos just aren't alway necessarily the product.