If you’re just considering photography, reading this article might make you want to become a professional photographer and be one of those people who also make money by photography or selling existing photos.
1. Photo competitions
2. Photo blog
In a blog, you can not only post photos, you can also write. Even about photography itself, your favorite photographer’s subjects, what you love to photograph.
If you take pleasure in photography - and I haven’t seen someone who can’t find it yet and have chosen this profession - then you can probably write about your hobby as well.
Here are some questions for thinkers that can answer fabulous articles:
- How do you choose a topic?
- How do you choose a location?
- What time of year and time of day do you take photos, and why then?
- What caught you in a picture, why did you decide to take a photo?
- What kind of camera and what accessories do you use?
- Why these, what are your experiences?
- Have you ever been in an interesting / awkward situation while shooting?
- Where do you publish your pictures?
- What jobs have you undertaken so far? What were your experiences with these?
- Did your client have any surprising requests? What challenges did you have, how did you cope with them?
If you want more topics, think about similar questions and answer them.
If you want more ideas, I recommend the https://contentmarketinginstitute.com blogs, which gave us a lot of ideas and is similar to the one we are reading now, contributed to the birth of valuable and popular articles. From these you can learn not only blogging but also content distribution.
You need to know that a blog is not about making money right away, but it is a tool you can use to build your reputation and future revenue in the long run. It’s best to start blogging when you’re just flirting with the idea of photography for the money , or just thinking about becoming a professional photographer one day. This way, by the time you get started, you can already have a blog you visit that you can use to get customers right away, all you have to do is expose your own ads.
And then how do you realize revenue from a blog?
It goes without saying that if you already undertake photography, advertise your own service on it. But revenue from selling photos already taken can also be a good idea.
In this way, the blog will not actually be a separate source of revenue, but an effective marketing tool.
But if you want to make extra income, I also have a few tips:
Make affiliate offers (advertise products for which you can get a commission). A good example is, if you write a test about a camera (or just mention the machine in a post), you can post the page of Amazon.com next to it, where you advertise this particular camera. Or you can advertise a stock photo page if readers of your blog benefit from this offer.
You can also sell your pictures on your site. Of course, the Stock Photographer page is better for this, but the photographer's blog is a plus to promote your work - so why miss it?
Display Google AdSense ads. It’s easy to sign up for Google and put together in a very professional way, always displaying the most relevant ad to the reader to maximize the clicks that matter (and your commission).
3. Sell photos on Stock Photographer sites
There are a lot of stock photo pages, from which graphic designers and companies buy photos for their websites and advertising materials. The agencies that maintain the sites pay the photographer a share of the price of the image sold after each sale.
Upload as many high quality images as possible to these pages.
If you’ve been clicking as a hobby photographer for a while now, put together your previous photos because you can turn them into cash soon. And in the long run, you can build a strong passive income for yourself with the help of stock photo sites.
You have a very simple thing:
You need to register on the pages, then you can upload pictures. For some websites, before you first upload, you need to look at a short tutorial on what photos can be uploaded, and then you need to complete a test. Don't worry, it's easier than you think. The tutorial is compiled so that you don’t fall asleep and you can run fast through it. They do not want to scare the photographers, but to catch them 🙂
You can then start uploading well-done images. It’s paramount that you only upload high-quality photos because they’ll otherwise be rejected - and rightly so, who would buy a grainy or blurry image for more dollars?
Make sure your photos are not out of focus, underexposed or overexposed.
When uploading, you must also provide the title, description, and keywords. Choose a title that best describes what you see in the picture. Use simple words when giving a title. Try not to use suffixes in the title, as this will make it harder for users to find and the translator will not necessarily be able to do it. Make the description clear and fill in the keywords (tags, tags) exactly.
Think with the heads of photo seekers… What keywords are entered when searching for photos on a topic? Try to guess and enter these terms into it so that it will be published more often by the search engine and this will be reflected in your earnings as well.
How much can you earn by selling photos?
It depends on how many images you upload, the quality of your photos, and how many such pages you use.
If you upload a few hundred images to a single page, you can only expect a few dollars a month.
However, if you take a lot of photos and constantly upload your pictures to the most popular sites, an income of 1000 USD can be realistic.
The more images you have, the more likely you are to pick your footage from the site, so upload everything you can.
What pages should you use?
Some stock photo pages to get started:
4. Photography of little-known events
That's why the tip broke the fuse in the photographers, I'll write down why at the end of the tip, why 🙂
Anyway, the tip is about:
Photography at events where no separate photographer is invited 🙂 This is also a real life example.
Examples are low-level concerts, small meetups and trainings.
You can expect less money here, because the photographer wasn't called here, you just came.
You have a better chance of success if you contact the organizer in advance and they have agreed .
Give me an irresistible quote. For example, if photographing a larger event would be $2000, but since you want to support small businesses (or start-up bands), you will get it anyway, so you would jump in for an hour for $200.
Why is this good for event organizers?
Because you give photos that can be posted on the website as a reference, as proof that you have had successful events, you can take a professional picture of the company manager, the company for a fraction of the market price.
I’m thinking with a corporate head, and one thing’s for sure: once we hold a small event and someone finds me tossing in a couple of professional photos for a high five, I’ll get the offer!
That’s why we got ourselves on Facebook from professional photographers for the tip 😀
"The worst piece of advice I've ever heard is to delete it!"
“If someone takes a photo for 100, the quality will be the same and no one will then pay him a regular price”
“This will completely depress the prices, no one will pay a full, fair price for a photo from now on !!!”
And one more pile of similar comments and we got dozens of angry faces for the post.
I note quite rightly.
I was really wrong. Well, not with the tip, I still maintain it, and you see, I left it in the article as well.
But I made a mistake because I didn’t write a damn important addition.
Namely, to use this tip only very rarely , rather only at the very beginning of your photographic career, until you collect a few references. And let it be a “secret offer”. Only come up with this secret offer if you really have free time, don’t have a “full price” customer, and need a reference.
This, “cheap photography at events” should by no means be part of your permanent offer . Don't post it on your website. Don't advertise publicly. If someone asks you to take a photo of an event, say the full price (in the example it is $100). If they call, pay the full price, that's evident.
Anyway, for you, like any photographer, I suggest you don’t give yourself a bargain. In the long run, never break your prices, don't go into price competition !!! Rather to quality, bid, or marketing competition, but never price competition.
I think this tip has made this tip complete. Anyone who doesn't like it anyway…
In addition, you’ll find enough ideas in the article on how to make money with your photos.
Yeah, one more idea for photographing event attendees:
Although I have heard someone go out to such smaller gatherings as a photographer and photograph the participants for a few hundred Dollars, I still do not see such a fantasy in this.
I’d rather say build relationships: ask participants for their email addresses to send them the photos they’re featured on. This can be a good way to acquire customers at an event full of entrepreneurs. Maybe less than a concert.
5. Family photography
There is a growing demand and affordable demand for professional, family photos that the family can send to relatives, upload to Facebook.com, organize into albums, post on the wall…
Marketing tips:
Look, find out what not many people do, but the market would need it.
Where to research? Join Facebook groups, check out a couple of blogs, forums, or the page on frequent designs.
It takes a little more time but more accurate results: take a short survey with the free Google form. Ask her what she didn't like about the services of other photographers, what she missed, what she wanted, but no one could, or what type of photos and services she would need. Then share this on Facebook on timelines and in a couple of relevant groups. Maybe on forums, but don't spam.
If you want even more accurate market research, more answers from your potential customers, then promote your form on Facebook for a few hundred dollars.
Once you have this, develop services that were in greater demand that more people missed than others. Then advertise this. You can even publish it where you shared the questionnaire.
For example, if every photographer in a costume, studio, is willing to take only pre-set images, then you advertise a service that goes out to the family, captures everyday, lifelike, “real” moments and feelings…
Conversely, if there are only photographers in your market who do just that, but many would also need studio, set, costume photography, then develop a service for that, because then you will be unique and special in that.
And as we know, special, unique services are paid more than “dozens of goods” .
Revenue Tips:
From the market research mentioned earlier, raise out what were the “extra” requests that not everyone wants, but whoever is interested would pay extra for it. If you can meet these, develop package offers for
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