How to Sell your Digital Photography at Stock Photo Sites

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.

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8 Ways to Earn Money with Digital Photography

Are you a shutterbug?

If you like to snap pictures at family events or just out in the neighborhood, put that camera to good use in ways that will earn you money for your efforts.

This article will give you eight ways that you can make money with digital photography.

The world of photography has changed since the instant camera was developed. With a digital camera, you can take a mediocre shot and make it perfect just by using a variety of software options. Best of all, pictures can be printed on quality paper on your printer or at a store kiosk for just a few cents per picture.

Technology has created memory cards much like the flash drive storage medium to file and save pictures for sharing on the Internet. You can easily upload pictures from the memory card to your friends, family and a blog or website if you have one.

The 8 ways to earn money from your digital photographs are:

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   Stock photography. This business is growing. For website newsletters, magazines and articles, publishers look for photos that capture the essence of their articles. It is not terribly convenient to go out and snap some pictures every time you need one. Selling stock photographs to businesses and individuals is convenient for them and lucrative for you.
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   Wedding photographer. Okay so if you aren’t a professional you won’t be the main photographer at first but you can be hired to take candid shots at the reception or wedding photos after the ceremony. The happy couple can order as many pictures as they want and you can create wedding CDs of the pictures you took.
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   Newspaper pictures. If you are in the right place at the right time, you might capture photos that are worthy of the newspaper. When news happens, a newspaper photographer might not be on the scene. You can capture the moments and sell them to newspapers. Snapping shots at community events may also earn you some money from local newspapers.
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   Magazine photographer. Create a portfolio of photos that you’ve taken and submit them to magazines. Looking at your work, they may hire you for assignments. Magazines are a tough market to break into so cut your teeth on other smaller assignments for local newspapers.
5. 
   Local photography business. Ever gotten a mailing that shows cars for sale or houses for sale? Someone had to take those photographs. It could be you. Hire yourself out to area businesses to do the photographs for them.
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   Event photographer. Some families like to document their events like family reunions, christenings, bar mitzvahs and birthday parties. You can be the eyes in the room catching candid shots of everyone.
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   Photography website. If you know a lot about digital cameras and photography, create a website to sell photography products. Keep visitors and customers coming back with engaging content on various aspects of photography.
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   Give photography classes. Those cameras look easy to use but some of those symbols can mix people up. Teach others to use their digital camera and create great pictures that they, too, can market as a business.

There you have it. What started off as a hobby can easily develop into your new business venture.

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