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 - Selling Stock Photography: Selling stock photography is easier than you may think. Just take some of your best photos and submit them to stock photography sites. They will be reviewed and if it's a good photo, it will hopefully be accepted. You'll get paid about $1-2 every time someone uses your photo.
Method #2 - Create Screensavers: Screensavers make a lot of money online. In fact, there are dozens of sellers on eBay who've made PowerSeller status just from selling screensavers! As a photographer, you can make a lot of money by putting your photos together into a screensaver and selling them on eBay or screensaver websites.
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: One of the more popular ways to work as a photographer. The key to getting wedding photography business is to have a very credible website and profile.
Method #5 - Restaurant Photographer: Restaurants often need photos of their restaurant or their dishes for their menu's and websites. You can work directly with restaurants or make yourself available to designers who work with restaurants.
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: One of the most tedious tasks of getting insurance is having everything in your home photographed. For highly paid professionals, they would often rather pay someone to do the work than do it themselves. Positioning yourself as an insurance photographer is a great way to get started with paying gigs.
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 - Commission Your Art: Places like Cafe's or restaurants would often love to have your art on their walls for free. You gain free exposure while they get free art.
Method #10 - Sporting Events: Local sporting events such as little league games or high school soccer games would often love to have photographers photograph their games.
Method #11 - Church Directories: A church directory is an album that contains photographs of all their members along with their contact information. Church directories are quite common among churches in higher end neighborhoods. You can easily sell your services as a photographer to help create church directories.
Method #12 - Make T Shirts: Original T shirts are big sellers on websites on eBay. By taking good photos and putting them on T Shirts, you can make a very good profit.
Method #13 - Craigslist: You can advertise yourself on Craigslist, a free and very popular online classifieds website. Position yourself as a photographer and you'll be exposing yourself to thousands of people who're looking for your services.
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: You can build a small but loyal following simply by posting your photos online on a regular basis. Art lovers who love your style will often subscribe to your blog and keep coming back again and again.
You now have 15 great ideas to get you started as a professional photographer. Just one of these ideas can keep you busy for months. Pick the one that resonates with you and run with it! - 17943
Method #1 - Selling Stock Photography: Selling stock photography is easier than you may think. Just take some of your best photos and submit them to stock photography sites. They will be reviewed and if it's a good photo, it will hopefully be accepted. You'll get paid about $1-2 every time someone uses your photo.
Method #2 - Create Screensavers: Screensavers make a lot of money online. In fact, there are dozens of sellers on eBay who've made PowerSeller status just from selling screensavers! As a photographer, you can make a lot of money by putting your photos together into a screensaver and selling them on eBay or screensaver websites.
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: One of the more popular ways to work as a photographer. The key to getting wedding photography business is to have a very credible website and profile.
Method #5 - Restaurant Photographer: Restaurants often need photos of their restaurant or their dishes for their menu's and websites. You can work directly with restaurants or make yourself available to designers who work with restaurants.
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: One of the most tedious tasks of getting insurance is having everything in your home photographed. For highly paid professionals, they would often rather pay someone to do the work than do it themselves. Positioning yourself as an insurance photographer is a great way to get started with paying gigs.
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 - Commission Your Art: Places like Cafe's or restaurants would often love to have your art on their walls for free. You gain free exposure while they get free art.
Method #10 - Sporting Events: Local sporting events such as little league games or high school soccer games would often love to have photographers photograph their games.
Method #11 - Church Directories: A church directory is an album that contains photographs of all their members along with their contact information. Church directories are quite common among churches in higher end neighborhoods. You can easily sell your services as a photographer to help create church directories.
Method #12 - Make T Shirts: Original T shirts are big sellers on websites on eBay. By taking good photos and putting them on T Shirts, you can make a very good profit.
Method #13 - Craigslist: You can advertise yourself on Craigslist, a free and very popular online classifieds website. Position yourself as a photographer and you'll be exposing yourself to thousands of people who're looking for your services.
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: You can build a small but loyal following simply by posting your photos online on a regular basis. Art lovers who love your style will often subscribe to your blog and keep coming back again and again.
You now have 15 great ideas to get you started as a professional photographer. Just one of these ideas can keep you busy for months. Pick the one that resonates with you and run with it! - 17943
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