Originally posted by Barbarosa real estate will always be area for good money, photographer just need to find contractors, developers or real estate agents to work for.
I have students that work in this industry - and at least here in Australia, it doesn't pay well...at all. All your work is reduced to a single image, plus your time you get paid for that job...and after that you have to find more work, that often requires traveling to multiple locations and working with less than optimal lighting. If anything I think real estate photographers are masochists. And in any case most real estate agents take photos on point and shoot cameras - and then they enthusiastically display all their photographic blunders for the locals to laugh at.
This is one of my favorite real estate photography bloopers:
They are trying to sell a historic house and they present a photograph of the carpark behind it?
Also on the subject of architectural photography - I use view cameras for that kind of work. I figure if you are going to do a job, do it properly. View cameras can move with such freedom T/S lenses simply cannot compare.