Just imagine, you go to your village and you see chickens running around, you take the photo. You go to the top of a tall building and you take the shot of the market scene, you see a riverside view and you take the shot or you even go to a friend’s house and you see a beautiful aquarium and you take a photo of the cut little fish swimming in it. And when you get home, process the picture a little, upload it to some selected sites that will soon be revealed to you and by next week you’ve made some cash from your photo. Considering this actions you’ve taken, I wouldn’t say that was difficult.
All you have to do is understand how this is done, know exactly where to take your pictures to and you are in business. Just start taking pictures and start earning because as an “amateur” as you consider yourself, you are in high demand (very high demand) across the world if you can detect a wonderful scene and take a cute little photo. Brace up because I am about to reveal to you a whole new world of unexplored cash in the photography business that you’ve never heard preached before.
Taking photos is fun. What’s more fun, getting paid for taking photos. The nice part about selling photography is that anyone can do it –you’re not dependent upon physical ability, age, or background. It’s more about art and energy. The photography market is so open that every photographer I’ve met to date is pleased to give ideas and suggestions.
One question I know will be ringing in your mind right now is “how can I sell photos”. I need to first clarify some points so that you will be making money with this venture and not wasting time.
Knowing what to shoot & what to Publish
As you begin to take photographs, you will quickly learn that you can easily make income from several areas in the photography field. You can also decide to specialize. There are people who specialize in taking only pictures of motorcycles, or cars or trees for instance. As someone starting however and I guess wit no photography expertise or some “fancy” cameras. You might want to stick to the other and do a lot of areas. The truth is: any area can turn into photo-cash for you. However, I must warn that you need to what is legal to shoot. You can go to http://rcfp.org/photoguide, http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm, http://photography.about.com/od/legalissues to learn about some of the legal issues.
QUICK TIP: some photo types are more in high demand than others and so going for such photos will fetch you more cash and quicker. Examples are beautiful nature pictures (beaches, trees, sunset e.t.c), electronic stuff that could easily be used on websites (earn quick bucks with these), business people (men, women), money, business related photos (pile of newspapers, calculators) e.t.c.
As regards what to publish, there are things like photos that reveal private facts about someone, images that included copyrighted logos or trademarks within them, photos that appear to indicate a libelous and unsubstantiated appearance such as a preacher in front of a sign for a porn movie, thus implying he was going to see it e.t.c.
That covered; there are 3 basic ways to make money from your photos. The first is to sell them; I’ll call this “stock photos”. The second is to create a product out of your photos. For instance, the creation of an animal book for children, containing photos of animals with short description or create cards using your pictures, and the third is to render services which is the very popular one we see around where you lend your skill to people who need to carve a memory of there events on paper. My goal here is to show you how to sell your photos over the web (stock photos). So what are “stock photos”? Stock photos can be described as pictures you have already taken. It is in your pile of photos and is ready for use. I mean if I tell you how, you could just take them out now and sell for cash. Simple!
Publishers love to use stock photos because it is easier. It takes a lot of time and money to hire a photographer and get him or her to take the needed shots. It is by far better to use cute ready made pictures and you’ll agree with me that this is most correct. Each time I’ve had to design a website or create header graphics for my sites or create my stunning eBook covers, I’ve always turned to stock photos because they are plain easy.
All you have to do is go out and take your photos. Some of your photos will need processing. If you are experienced with handling graphics, you can easily do this yourself with photo editing software like Photoshop or you can just hire someone to do them for you cheap.
Where Can I Sell My Photos Online and How
The best way to sell you photo is by putting them on the web. You hope that the client comes to you by displaying your photos online and waiting for sales. It’s simple, you get all your photos as you have taken them, upload them to a website and name them appropriately with proper keywords and then wait for someone to come over and purchase them. You can do this in two ways; first you can get your own websites and second you can go over to photo agencies.
Photo agencies combine stock photos of many photographers, hundreds of thousands of them, create a large exposure and draw thousands of visitors who come to buy those photos. Based on these reasons going to these websites might be your best bet.
Here is a list of some photo agencies you can go to and register an account for free, upload your pictures and start earning an income.
http://www.shutterstock.com/ :Get paid 20cents every time someone downloads one of your images for free! If your images are good they may be downloaded over a hundred times everyday. With about 10 to 30 good images, you will be making a good monthly income!
http://www.fotolia.com/ : Sign up, upload your photos, and get paid! Receive up to 80% of the sales price!
http://www.istockphoto.com/ : once you join them you can begin selling your photos with them! They also provide free training on how to make your photos professional.
http://www.shutterpoint.com/ : Upload your photos and sell them at whatever price you want!
Dream times photo (http://www.dreamstime.com/ ) –get paid 50-65% off every photo that get downloaded!
http://www.canstockphoto.com/ –low competition (relatively new) you are almost guaranteed to sell tons of your photos on this site.
http://www.alamy.com/ –Earn 65% of every photo that Alama sells for you. Good money!
http://www.fototopic.net/ –when you upload your photo you can allow people to use your photos for T-shirts, mugs, e.t.c. –Doing so you are able to set your own rates for the photos!
Others include http://www.morephotos.com/, http://www.foliolink.com/, http://www.ktools.net/, http://www.photostockplus.com/, http://www.crestock.com/, http://www.stockandprints.com/.
NOTE: while going to register on these sites, be prepared with a scanned copy of identification. Some of the sites will accept your National ID or drivers license. Others will settle for nothing else but your international passport so be ready.
Additional tips: People who will come to search for photos at these sites will search using the search engines. So try and name your pictures in such a way as to fit description criteria that people will be searching for. For instance, if you have the picture of a businessman, don’t name your picture “Johnny”, because if you do it would probably never get downloaded because people won’t search for “Johnny” . What they will be looking for is businessman, so better you labor your picture as businessman.
Also, take advantage of misspelling to make more money from your pictures. You see a lot of people will wrongly spell the search word. For instance, someone might spell businessman as busneesman. Now, because of that wrong spelling, the search engine will give your own picture precedence over others if it was spelled that way, meaning more exposure, more downloads and ultimately more cash.
So what are you waiting for? You’ve got a camera, you can take nice shots and you know where to sell your photos.
Go and shoot for $500 to $2000 monthly doing what you love!
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Some of these businesses will require you as low capital as N100 naira!
Yes I mean one hundred naira! And you can make More than a N100, 000 (one hundred thousand naira) from these N100 business.
It’s just a matter of you making a decision to STOP HOPING, THINK AND START ACTING.
For those who already have a job, CONGRATULATIONS but I bet you, none of these businesses will fetch you less than N50, 000 naira in a month even if you’re doing it on a part-time basis and you still keep your normal job.
This book is currently selling for
N700.00k. Seven Hundred Naira only!!!!!
This offer to GRAB this book is a pre-launch sale promo as the price of this book will shoot up like a rocket aiming for the outer space after the public launch to nothing less than N5, 500(five thousand five hundred).
Off course, more things will be added by the time of launching which you will get for free if you BUY NOW!
The launch will take place by June 26, 2009. Just watch out.
To get yours just order for it by paying the sum of
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(Seven hundred naira)
Into
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