Can you get a digital camera and take shots of photographs? Even though you’re a
complete amateur, you can still make up to $500(N72, 500) every month or even more
using the strategy am about to reveal in this section. Not just that this business will make
you money, its one of the most stress free way of making money over the internet.
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.
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!
www.fotolia.com : Sign up, upload your photos, and get paid! Receive up to 80% of the
sales price!
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.
www.shutterpoint.com : Upload your photos and sell them at whatever price you want!
Dream times photo (www.DreamsTime.com ) –get paid 50-65% off every photo that get
downloaded!
www.CanStockPhoto.com –low competition (relatively new) you are almost guaranteed
to sell tons of your photos on this site.
www.Alamy.com –Earn 65% of every photo that Alama sells for you. Good money!
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 www.morephotos.com, www.foliolink.com, www.ktools.net,
www.photostockplus.com, www.crestock.com, 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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