It's easier than you may think to make money as a digital photographer. There are many different ways to make money doing digital photography and here are 15 to get you started.
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 - 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
Speaking of eBay, eBay can be a great source of business. eBay sellers often have very poor photos of images they sell over and over. Set up a local service photographing eBay items.
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
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
Both men and women often want to have great photos of them taken for online dating profiles. This is a great way to make some quick cash.
Method #9 - Working with Café's
Café's would often love to have your art on their wall for free. In exchange, you can post your photos with a price tag on their walls until you get a buyer for your 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
Churches often want to have photos of their members along with contact information in a booklet called a church directory. You can position yourself as the go to photographer for that.
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
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 - Portrait Photographer
The portrait business is a big business. You can work with a studio or set up your own practice for doing portraits.
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.
Now you have plenty of profitable ideas you can use to start making money as a photographer. Whether you want to do it part-time for extra cash or make it your full-time work, there's plenty to choose from.
Dan Feildman
www.LearnDigitalPhotographyNow.com
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