When he was 31, he took over the photography studio which his father had founded in 1901, the oldest in Taichung. At Lin's death in 1977, the studio passed on to his son, and it remains in his hands today.
林權助生前常對朋友說的一句話是：「我今天不這麼拍的話，以後就來不及了。」在家庭、事業、工作的負荷之外，他把所有餘力與時間花在四處獵影上，為的就是怕「來不及了」。