Make Money with Cameras: 15 Ways to Get Paid for Your Photos
submitted: Feb 25th 2009 |
by: PJFrancis |
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Beginning photographers often overestimate how difficult it can be to make money as a photographer. In reality, there are dozens of ways to make money through digital photography. Here are 15 great ways to help you kick start your photography career.
Method #1 - Stock Photography: Websites Getting your photos on stock photography sites is quite easy. Once you go through the process once, it'll quickly become a breeze. Just choose your best photos and submit them. If they're accepted, you'll make $1 to $2 dollars every time someone uses your photo!
Method #2 - Screensavers: There's a lot more money in screensavers than people realize. Take a series of photographs along a theme and make your own screensaver. If the photos are good, they'll do great on screensaver sites or on eBay.
Method #3 - eBay Sellers: eBay sellers often don't know how to take very good photos of their items. That's where you come in. By helping them photograph their listings, you'll help them make thousands of dollars while you get paid for your photography work.
Method #4 - Wedding Photographer: Photographing weddings is a great way to make a lot of money for very little time. Great marketing and a great portfolio is essential to differentiate yourself.
Method #5 - Restaurant Photographer: Restaurant menus often need to have appetizing photos taken for their dishes. They also often need photos of the restaurant itself for marketing materials. Restaurants can be a great source of business for the budding photographer.
Method #6 - Real Estate Agents: Real estate agents need listing photographs of new homes they're listing. Get yourself a few real estate agents you work with regularly and you could quickly be booked with work.
Method #7 - Insurance Photographer: People are usually required to photograph belongings they're insuring. Often times they don't want to bother learning how themselves. By positioning yourself as an insurance photographer, you can do it for them.
Method #8 - Online Dating Photographer: Men and women both need good photos for their online dating profiles. By positioning yourself as an online dating photographer, you can help people find their matches while making some extra money for yourself.
Method #9 - Consignment Art: Places like Cafes and restaurants would often love to showcase your artwork. It gives them art on their walls for free. In exchange, you get exposure and potential buyers for your art.
Method #10 - Sporting Events: Smaller sporting events such as high school games or little league games often want to have their photos taken. It's a great way for a beginning photographer to get their foot in the door.
Method #11 - Church Directories: A church directory is a booklet with photographs of all their members along with names and phone numbers. You can create these booklets for churches for a nice profit.
Method #12 - Make T Shirts: A great way to make money doing photography is to take great photos and put them on T shirts. You can sell these shirts on eBay, on your own website or sell the designs to other T shirt websites.
Method #13 - Craigslist: Craigslist is a great way to find clients. As the biggest classifieds website on the internet, Craigslist is the first place many people look when they need to hire a photographer.
Method #14 - Take Portraits: Portrait photography is a highly profitable business models for photographers. There are two ways you can go about doing portraits: Setting up your own practice, or working with another studio.
Method #15 - Photo Blogging: People love looking at images. If you continue to take images people like to look at and publish them, you can quickly build up a following.
You now have 15 great ways to start off your practice as a digital photographer. Each one of these tactics can book you with gigs if you put the work into it. Don't wait. Get started today!
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