Suggest that you find a local SCORE office or Small Business Development Center in your area. Both are free to use and they can help with all you need to get started - plus, since they operate in your area - they will know the rules and requirements of your area.

According to me that first you should have plan about the starting small photo business. Contact with professional photographers and discuss with them for your business and take opinions. It is better way for you...  

Before starting any business, I would do some research to find out for sure what your potential 'Buyers' want and who they tend to buy from today.   One of the biggest pitfalls of starting a new business is jumping in with both feet too quickly, before the 'homework' has been done to:    1) Understand the current market landscape; competitors, buyers, their habits, available alternatives, etc.    2) Understand your buyers' priority, that they place on allocating money to your type of product or service (you don't want to have talk people into reprioritizing their spending)    3) Decide where you're going to sell, especially online and how you'll obtain profitable traffic, where there's a tremendous amount of competition and noise that you'll have to contend with.    4) Choose pricing and business model carefully - it's expensive to reach and acquire new customers (even online), so to have a profitable business, the value of a customer must exceed the cost of getting one (i.e.., a profit).  I'm seeing that it easily costs $40 or more to acquire a new 'consumer' type of customer (more for B2B), so your average transaction size needs to be at least twice to three times that ($80 to $120) to turn a profit consistently.   As new business owners, there's a tendency to want to jump into business and just 'get going', without doing this homework first.     Those who do the homework have a much better chance of succeeding; those who don't are typically going to learn the 'hard way', through trial and error (also known as failure and restarting, not as much fun, believe me).   I hope that's helpful.  

Hi tshift, You will need to register your business - follow these steps to starting a business in Kansas. You will need to select a business name, determine the legal structure for your business, register for federal and state taxes, and obtain the necessary licenses and permits. For more resources, feel free to check out the Kansas Small Business Guide.

Yes you need to get a company name and need to register it with your local authorities. Moreover, I suggest you become a part of a community of professional photographers like on Facebook or other social network sites. You'll find some people with the same interests and possibly from the same areas who can also give you some good advice as a photographer.