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Although photographers spend hundreds of hours learning the art of photography, the one aspect that’s often left out in school is how to actually make money. Here we’ll explore 15 creative ways to get your foot in the door as a paid digital photographer.
Method #1 - Selling Stock Photography: Selling stock photography is easier than you may think. Just take some of your best photos and submit them to stock photography sites. They will be reviewed and if it’s a good photo, it will hopefully be accepted. You’ll get paid about $1-2 every time someone uses your photo.
Method #2 - Create Screensavers: Screensavers make a lot of money online. In fact, there are dozens of sellers on eBay who’ve made PowerSeller status just from selling screensavers! As a photographer, you can make a lot of money by putting your photos together into a screensaver and selling them on eBay or screensaver websites.
Method #3 - Help eBay Sellers: eBay sellers often have very poorly taken photos of their items. For higher end eBay sellers, this could be losing them thousands of dollars every month! You can offer your services to these sellers, offering to take photos of their items for them for a fee.
Method #4 - Wedding Photographer: One of the more popular ways to work as a photographer. The key to getting wedding photography business is to have a very credible website and profile.
Method #5 - Restaurant Photographer: Restaurant menus often need to have appetizing photos taken for their dishes. They also often need photos of the restaurant itself for marketing materials. Restaurants can be a great source of business for the budding photographer.
Method #6 - Real Estate Listings: Real estate agents need listing photographs of new homes they’re listing. Get yourself a few real estate agents you work with regularly and you could quickly be booked with work.
Method #7 - Insurance Photographer: People are usually required to photograph belongings they’re insuring. Often times they don’t want to bother learning how themselves. By positioning yourself as an insurance photographer, you can do it for them.
Method #8 - Online Dating Photographer: Both men and women often want to have great photos of them taken for online dating profiles. This is a great way to make some quick cash.
Method #9 - Consignment Art: Places like Cafes and restaurants would often love to showcase your artwork. It gives them art on their walls for free. In exchange, you get exposure and potential buyers for your art.
Method #10 - Sporting Events: Local sporting events such as little league games or high school soccer games would often love to have photographers photograph their games.
Method #11 - Church Directories: Churches often want to have photos of their members along with contact information in a booklet called a church directory. You can position yourself as the go to photographer for that.
Method #12 - Create T Shirts: T shirts have been and will continue to be great sellers online. Taking photos, putting them on shirts and selling them on eBay or T shirt websites is a great way to make money as a photographer.
Method #13 - Craigslist: Craigslist is a great place to find paying gigs. Hundreds of photographers are using Craigslist to connect with clients. It’s the most trafficked classified website on the internet.
Method #14 - Take Portraits: Portrait photography is a highly profitable business models for photographers. There are two ways you can go about doing portraits: Setting up your own practice, or working with another studio.
Method #15 - Create a Photo Blog: If your photos are stylistic, it’s like you could build up a fan base by publishing your photos on a blog.
Now you have plenty of profitable ideas you can use to start making money as a photographer. Whether you want to do it part-time for extra cash or make it your full-time work, there’s plenty to choose from.
