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Ad Men Seek Flickr Photos and Flickr Members

Photography: juliebee What do Flickr members want? To chat to other photographers and swap stories and tips about where and what to shoot, maybe. To make the odd print sale or win a new client, perhaps. To improve their photography, often. It’s all of those things, of course, but mostly Flickr membership tends to be about showing your [...]

The Differences Between Professional and Amateur Photographers

Photography: netamir Making your first sale is a big step. The second, third and fourth sales feel much easier and once they’re coming in regularly, you can soon find yourself wondering whether you shouldn’t be selling images for a living. Surely it would just be a matter of stepping up the pace and producing more photos. In [...]

Making the Most of Competition

Photography: brookenovak If you want to make a lot of money doing anything, including photography, there’s one very easy strategy: eliminate the competition. It’s certainly an approach that’s done wonders for Microsoft, and a monopoly on a section of the photography market can do wonders for any photographer too. Of course, unless you already have enough money [...]

An Open Access Photo Library

Microstock might have hit the stock world like a kick to the shins, but it carries one big advantage and one giant disadvantage. The advantage is that anyone can now earn from their photography. Photographers no longer need to be professional full-timers to license their photos and they’re free to upload as many or as [...]

Have Camera, Will Travel, May Earn

Photography: Steady 70 There’s a reason they call photography a dream job. It’s creative, it’s rewarding and best of all, it’s paying work that doesn’t have a boss. Sure, you’ll have deadlines and clients, but you’ll also have the freedom to decide how you arrange your working life. You could, in theory at least, grab a [...]

The Secrets of a Winning Photography Book

It used to be that photography books were once the preserve of established professionals – people whose names would be familiar enough to make publishers take notice and promising enough to enable booksellers to stick enormous price tags on the cover. Today, of course, that’s all changed. Anyone can now produce their own photography book [...]

You and the Failure of PhotoShelter

On October 10, 2008, PhotoShelter will close the PhotoShelter Collection, its stock outlet. In an announcement on the company’s website, Allen Murabayashi, PhotoShelter’s CEO declared: “We believed that we could create a more democratic system - a marketplace for stock photography where virtually any one could participate. And a few months later, The PhotoShelter Collection was [...]

Selling your Photos as Wallpaper

Photography: Vlad Gerasimov (VladStudio.com) Wouldn’t it be great to shoot a picture that you love, have thousands of people pay to own a copy and know that they’re going to see it, appreciate it and enjoy it several times a day… before coming back to pick up another one? That’s not likely to happen through gallery representation, [...]

Making the Most of the Olympics

Photography: Rick Sforza, USAF It’s the high point of their lives, the culmination of years of training, an opportunity to show off their talent and a chance to win the respect – and envy — of peers. And it’s not bad for the athletes either. More than 21,600 accredited journalists are covering the Olympic games in Beijing, including [...]

Turning Pet Shots into a Profession

Photography: Grace Chon Sometimes, the secret of building a successful photography business – even a part-time gig squeezed around a full-time job – isn’t hard to figure out. Take good pictures. Treat your clients well. Understand that nothing is more important than making your buyers happy… and they’ll do the rest. “I’m quite fortunate that I don’t look [...]

Put your Picture on the Cover of a Lonely Planet Travel Guide

We’re always banging on about the importance of niches here. When the market’s crowded, being a small fish in a big pond can be much easier – and a lot more profitable – than trying to steal scraps from the big boys. It’s why we’ve seen photographers choosing to specialize in rock climbing, astronomy and [...]

Balancing Your Revenue Streams

Build a website for profit and fun, and one of the first things you’ll learn is that it pays to diversify your revenue streams. You’ll want ads that pay per click, banners that pay for impressions and affiliate links that give you commissions. Together, those multiple sources let publishers get the most out of all [...]

Combining Your Skills

Photography: Master Sgt. Rob Wieland, USAF It’s hard enough figuring out the photography. Professional quality cameras might be affordable these days but they’re still complex tools stuffed with strange features we’re sure we should be using, accessories that come with their own manuals and of course, editing software that demands a whole set of professional skills [...]

Edgy Photos Sell in the Art World

Photography: voteprime For most workaday photographers, the world of auctions, collectors and the art market can seem very far away. But that doesn’t stop just about everyone who picks up a camera from dreaming about it. While few photographers seriously expect their wedding formals or baby portraits to change hands for six-figure sums, many would certainly [...]

When it all Goes Wrong

Photography: Behrooz Nobakht It seemed like a good idea at the time. We liked it. Judging by the level of activity on the site,  lots of photographers liked it. And seeing as they were the ones who poured their money into the plan, 8020 Publishing, producers of JPG Magazine, liked it too. The only people who didn’t [...]

Turning Rejection into Success

Photography: Markus Merz If turning photography into income has a downside, it’s this: it doesn’t always work. You’ll pitch for jobs you won’t get, enter competitions you won’t win and submit images to stock companies who will send them back encouraging you to try again. Dreamstime, for example, receives an average of 100,000 photo submissions a week [...]

Sell Your Images at Art Fairs

Photography: burtonwood + holmes For many photographers, the ultimate goal is see their images not on websites or even in magazines but on walls. And ideally, those walls will be in galleries, and carry next to each photograph a label, a large price tag, and a red dot indicating that the image has been sold. Of course, [...]

Becoming a Photographic Author

Photography: cayusa Moving from enthusiastic photographer to income-generating photographer is now easier than ever. The photography world has a wide selection of open entry points, from microstock sites to Flickr networking and from websites to art fairs. But while the roads towards professional photography are broad, the room at the top is narrower than ever. Media companies [...]

How and When to Raise your Prices

If you want to join the ranks of the millionaire photographers, try working in Zimbabwe. With inflation running at 2,200,000 percent, the country has just issued a banknote worth Z$100bn. It buys about two loaves of bread. By comparison, working in an environment in which prices are rising by about 3-4 percent – the level [...]

Partnering with Real Estate Professionals

Photography: sfadden Marketing is a neverending business. As soon as you win one client, you know it won’t be long before you need to pick up another. That’s why it makes sense to ensure that your marketing plan contains streams that are set up to bring in repeat business. One of the best ways to do that [...]

Easy Ways to Find Models

Photography: Northcountryboy Some aspects of photography are easy. If you like shooting landscapes, the countryside is full of them. The hills don’t move, you don’t have to pose them and you don’t even have to ask their permission. If you’re into still life photography, the grocery store is full of fruit. All you have to do is [...]

When Pictures Hurt Websites

Is it possible that an entire marketplace is wrong? Could it be that the biggest buyers of low-cost photography aren’t just wasting their money by buying images but actually damaging their own earnings? And if it is the case, is it possible that we can keep this to ourselves so that they don’t find out? The [...]

Developing an Appetite for Food Photography

We’re frequently told that if you want to earn sales from stock photography — and especially microstock photography — you should shoot for businesses. Images of people in suits sell better than pictures of clouds and flowers, however well-shot the roses might be. It’s a message that not everyone seems to be listening to. Search for [...]

Shooting and Selling Through a Recession

Even during the last economic boom, times have been hard recently for professional photographers. The price of digital equipment might have fallen, cutting expenses, but with high-end cameras now within reach of amateurs the result has been an increase in the supply of photographers and of images too. At the same time, the Internet [...]

Using Video to Promote Photographers

Photography: blhphotography The advantage of the digital age is that anyone with talent can now market themselves as a photographer. The disadvantage is that with so many photographers to choose from, buyers and clients have to make some difficult decisions. When they’re looking at portfolio after portfolio, each filled with professional-quality images and each indicating clearly [...]

Costs in Producing Photos

Moving from hobby photography to professional photography is a big jump. It’s a jump not just because your ability to pay your mortgage and feed your family will now depend entirely on your talent with a camera and your skills at marketing those talents. It’s a giant leap because you’ll also have to consider the [...]

Photography Meets Illustration

A beautiful image can do a number of different things. It can capture a moment in time, spark treasured memories, decorate a wall and convey a message from a company or a writer. But it can also tell a story – and when put together, a sequence of images can sometimes tell a complete narrative [...]

Stock Photo Survey Says

PhotoShelter’s VP Marketing told us during a recent conference call. “Everything is dated, especially in the category of diversity,” added Emily Hickey, VP Products. “The majority are cheesy, too staged, too stocky and not authentic.” That’s quite an indictment but it’s based on a new survey of over 20,000 photo buyers just conducted by PhotoShelter. More than [...]

Earning From The Top Photography Cliches

Photography: ennor Look through your hard drive, and you’ll find them. We all will. They’re images that look beautiful, are perfectly captured, speak volumes… and which turn up as frequently as “hard-working families” pepper election speeches. Clichés are a part of photography. They’re often the first images new photographers take as they’re learning to use their camera [...]

Creative Commons Wordpress Plugin

We just wrote and released our first wordpress plugin, Iflickr. The plugin allows any blogger using wordpress to search and add creative commons photos from Flickr in their blog posts, and automatically put the correct attribution under the photo. All this from within the wordpress web interface. So, to find out more, visit our iflickr page [...]

Taking a Chance with Professional Photography

Photography: George Ancona At Photopreneur, we don’t think that professional photography is for everyone. We wouldn’t dream of telling people to ditch their day job and look to their camera as their sole source of income. If it’s something that you really want to do, if you have the talent, the knowledge, the business skills and the [...]

Photography Mistakes That Can Destroy Your Reputation

Professional reputations are fragile things. They can take years to build up but they can be knocked down in seconds… taking customers, potential buyers and future dreams with them. These are just some of the things you should avoid doing if you want to hold on to your name as a photographer that buyers want to [...]

Sending Your Photos as Greeting Cards

There are all sorts of ways of selling and promoting your images on the Web these days. With microstock and niche stock sites, professional sites and photo sharing sites, it feels like photographers are spoiled for choice when it comes to ways of putting their images into the hands of potential buyers. It’s always impressive then [...]

Making the Switch - Becoming a Professional Photographer

Photography: JR Geoffrion It might not be everyone’s goal but just about anyone who has ever sold an image will have considered it at least briefly. Once you discover that your camera can be a cash machine, the thought of trading in the nine-to-five for days of professional shooting is never far behind. After all, you’d be [...]

Photography Marketing with Craigslist

Sometimes it’s the quietest — and cheapest — marketing channels that can be the most effective. Craigslist has no whiz-bang graphics — or any graphics at all, in fact. Its search engine is less effective than its olde worlde Yahoo!-style directory listing, and its pages consist of little more than classified postings placed by anyone [...]

What Does the Rise of Video Mean for you?

Flickr made the announcement with pride. “Video! Video! Video! The rumours are true and ‘soon’ is now. We’re thrilled to introduce video on Flickr…” And apparently the thrill hasn’t gone away. Flickr’s home page is still screaming this message to its users a month-and-a-half after the original announcement, as though the rest of us will be as [...]

What it Takes to Build a Photography Business

Getting More out of Moo

Upselling for Portrait Photographers

Are you Really as Talented as you Think you Are?

Photography: jaysk If you wanted to name the biggest complaint of professional photographers in the digital age, you’d have a lot to choose from. Demand is falling. Prices are dropping. Photography schools are growing just as jobs are disappearing. If it was always difficult to make a living taking pictures, it’s safe to say that times [...]

How Pro Bono Work Pays

Photograph: ©MarkRogersPhotography.com There’s more to life than money. That might sound a little strange coming from a blog that’s intended to help photographers make cash from their hobby but even we have to admit that money can only buy so much. It can get you a new camera model. It can upgrade your lens. It can pay [...]

What Does your Flickr Name Say about you?

Photography: Giant Gingko Join Flickr and even before you get down to selecting images, organizing sets and adding tags, you’ll be asked to choose a username. It shouldn’t be a task that demands too much effort. After all, image-lovers are coming to see your photos, not look at the label you’ve chosen for your Flickr stream. And [...]

Can Crowdsourcing Make you a Better Photographer?

Photography: Matthew Field At this moment, thousands of people in Brooklyn and beyond are curating a photography exhibition. They’re not pulling on white gloves and checking prints for blemishes. Nor are they placing photos at the foot of walls and trying to figure out where they should go. They’re logging in to the Brooklyn Museum’s website [...]

Creating Narrative Photo Books

It’s an odd sort of paradox. The easier it is to show images online, the greater the demand to see them in print. It’s as though photographers have come to feel that while anyone can upload an image, only a real photographer gets to see his or her photos on paper. That’s true even if [...]

The Day I Sold My First Photo — Three Photographers’ Stories

What’s Wrong With Microstock?

There’s been some sniggering going on lately. We’ve heard it. It came from some parts of the established photography industry, from the people who have traditional photography jobs, people who only deal with professionals and who only supply images for major publishers. When they heard that Lucky Oliver, a microstock site, was shutting down, they couldn’t [...]

The Secrets of Successful Stock Photography

Photography: Elena Elisseeva One of the most impressive things about professional photography is the range of people who take it up. From teenagers skipping college and shooting bands between trips to exotic locations, to former surf fans who have found a way to turn a couple of hobbies into a one full-time job, the background of [...]

When you Shouldn’t Sell with your Flickr Stream

We’re always impressed when we hear about people who have sold images through Flickr. It happens so often that we really shouldn’t be, but because the site wasn’t designed for commercial use it’s always remarkable to find that buyers and sellers have come together without either side taking any great efforts to make it happen. [...]

The Challenge of Product Photography

Photography: Robert House There’s a tension in professional photography. On the one hand, taking pictures is a creative profession. There’s no limit to the degree of artistry you can squeeze out of a camera, especially when you combine it with the power of Photoshop and a little imagination. There are few things more satisfying than looking [...]

Shooting for the Stars

Photography: Jerry Lodriguss and John Martinez There are a million and one reasons to try to generate income from photography. The amount of money you can earn is certainly one of them. With skill, talent and determination, the sums you can pick up depend only on you. But there’s a much better reason for attempting to [...]