Sunday, August 16, 2009

Make Money with Photography - Several Ways to Earn From Your Photos

By Vince Terry

Over 50 percent of photographers freelance, and it's not surprising that many people want to follow suit and aim to profit from photography. Do you wish to make money from photography? There are several ways to do this, but the key to greater profit is to utilize as many methods as possible.

Offer your photos for sale online. Create a website that sells your shots. Display the pictures and tell the world you're selling your rights to them. To repetitively earn from the same photo, don't sell full rights. Instead, charge only for licenses to utilize the photos. Establishing your own website requires time and monetary investments on domain hosting as well as marketing. However, when you succeed in drawing in more traffic to your site and upload more photos later, your website venture can turn out to be quite lucrative.

Take pictures of items for auction at eBay and similar sites. Online selling definitely has a market for freelance photographers. Items are seldom auctioned off without the seller posting a photograph or two of the item. Rather than coming in residually, earnings from auction photographs are a one-time deal under this scheme. Still, you sport the advantages of being able to come up with a more impressive portfolio and earn a solid reputation of good work from clients. Apart|Aside from auction sites, some other websites and magazines may also require your photography services. Check out who else and which publications or sites you can work for.

Sell the kind of pictures that the real estate sector wants: properties. Do a rain check with real estate industries to see if they are interested in your property pictorial services. Remember your fees will be open for discussion and bargaining. The job might not be frequent but it?s a productive way for you to spend your vacant periods from work.

Build libraries of stock photos and vend them to the online community. Expect to become best friends with two circles of professionals: the graphic designers and the web designers. For many of them, paying for large libraries of photos is a much better option that having to purchase photo rights individually. After you've set up your library, organize the collections by theme. Then sell them to interested web and graphic designers.

Make Microstock photos one of your money-making venues. Working the same way as the above-mentioned photo libraries, you get to make money from Microstock whenever designers download your photos or decide to purchase individual rights to the pictures. In this way, you are able to profit from your pictures more than once over an indefinitely extended period.

Utilize CafePress and other online stores. When you advertise the stores, be sure to include photos that go with the variety of products on sale. You can hit two birds with one stone with this strategy: you earn money for the actual sales of the product and you promote your photographic works to potential customers. There is a potential to earn repetitively from the actual selling of the products, and there are no costly hard-copy printing or stock hoarding expenses involved.

There's definitely a lot of cash to be made from photography. Every method mentioned in this article tells you so. How high do you want your income to be? Which combination of money-making techniques will work for you and the kind of photos you shoot? Decisions such as these are yours to make.

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