Hi and welcome to Hive!
Hive is a perfect platform to share your photographic content. There are quite a lot of photography-related communities and contests (I create a weekly post about with all the currently running photography contests).
But now is the time to really get into producing and publishing content! Some of my previous posts have made ~7-15 dollars worth of payments, which is very promising even without building a large following.
Don't expect Hive to be a 'get rich soon' platform. First of all the payouts of your posts are in Hive currency. At the moment one Hive is valued at 0.176 USD. Secondly 50% of your payouts go to the curators. On Hive everyone with staked Hive gets rewards for content they vote on. There are some large curation accounts that are run by several people that upvote interesting content. That is what happened on some posts.
They do that with posts where the author put some effort in. A blog with a picture and a few words won't get many upvotes.
But when you create quility posts, enlarge your group of followers engaging with others you can slowly build your account.
and also add as many alternative platforms as possible to stay resilient worst case?
Not all curators like it when content is posted over multiple platforms. They will then not vote for your posts anymore.
There is much to learn about the do's and don'ts on Hive. Some things aren't formal rules, but are 'frowned upon'. Upvoting your own posts is an example of that. It isn't forbidden, but I wouldn't do it because you're giving yourself both the author as curation rewards.
Just give yourself the time to discover it al and most importantly; have fun!