In the tough economic times of today, we have to become inventive to find additional ways to make money. Look around you - at your hobbies and interests - and see if you can open up a whole new (and exciting) career path. If taking photos is your hobby, consider turning it into a business that can make you money. As a digital photographer you can sell (or lease)online all those beautiful photographs you have been taking.
Here are some ways to do that.
Digital photography allows you to capture a variety of images in a variety of formats. Modern editing techniques can do wonders for your photos and turn them into professional-looking pictures. Do you remember those 'old-fashioned looking' pictures that photographers would take of people at the amusement park? The pictures looked faded and very old - an effect created by the sepia tone they used when taking the picture. That is just one of the kinds of effects you can create with your digital camera when you edit a photo.
Stock photography is a great way to break into the online digital photography market. You sell your photos to others who need pictures for websites, newsletters, magazines and e-zines and other media. Have you surfed the Web lately? Have you noticed that many of the photos look the same? Your unique photos can add a new flavor to what is currently available online. It is exciting - and not a little challenging - to see how people will respond to your photos. Latent talents can be unleashed in the process!
What type of digital photos will sell?
Just remember 'more of the same' will not make a good impression. The stock photography companies are also businesses that need to make money to survive and thrive. Be creative and try out new ideas for holiday photos or photos of daily life, eccentric people and ordinary people going about their daily lives. Test what works and what does not work. If a style or topic is not well received, don't take it personally. Just say to yourself "Hmmm, that is not what people are after. Let's try something different." Sooner or later you will develop a good sense of what webmasters and bloggers are after.
Once you feel more confident, create a website or start a blog (free at Blogger.com or Wordpress.org) and link it to the stock photography sites featuring your work. In this way, more and more people will be able to view your photos which, in turn, may lead to other opportunities opening up for you in the future.
It is worth it. Click Here for some constructive help and guidance with getting the project off the ground and turning it into a profitable enterprise or sideline.
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