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 - Stock Photography: Websites Getting your photos on stock photography sites is quite easy. Once you go through the process once, it'll quickly become a breeze. Just choose your best photos and submit them. If they're accepted, you'll make $1 to $2 dollars every time someone uses your photo! Method #2 - Screensavers: Screensavers are a big business online. You can make a whole lot of money online by taking a group of photos and making them into screensavers. You can sell them on screensaver websites or eBay. Method #3 - eBay Sellers: eBay sellers often don't know how to take very good photos of their items. That's where you come in. By helping them photograph their listings, you'll help them make thousands of dollars while you get paid for your photography work. Method #4 - Wedding Photographer: Wedding photography is one of the most popular, profitable and competitive photography fields out there. To get jobs in this area, it's important to have a very impressive portfolio. Method #5 - Restaurant Photographer: Restaurants often need photos of their restaurant or their dishes for their menu's and websites. You can work directly with restaurants or make yourself available to designers who work with restaurants. Method #6 - Real Estate Listings: Have you ever noticed how beautiful photos of listed homes are? That's because real estate agents often hire professional photographers to photograph their listings for them. One great way to get started in this industry is to offer to shoot one listing for an agent for free. Do this for 10 agents and you may find yourself quickly booked with paying gigs. 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 - Take Online Dating Photos: Your online dating photograph is often the #1 most important thing in your dating profile. As a photographer, you can help both men and women find love, while making a good living at the same time! Method #9 - Working with Cafe's: Cafe's would often love to have your art on their wall for free. In exchange, you can post your photos with a price tag on their walls until you get a buyer 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: A church directory is a booklet with photographs of all their members along with names and phone numbers. You can create these booklets for churches for a nice profit. Method #12 - Make T Shirts: A great way to make money doing photography is to take great photos and put them on T shirts. You can sell these shirts on eBay, on your own website or sell the designs to other T shirt websites. Method #13 - Craigslist: You can advertise yourself on Craigslist, a free and very popular online classifieds website. Position yourself as a photographer and you'll be exposing yourself to thousands of people who're looking for your services. 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 - Photo Blogging: People love looking at images. If you continue to take images people like to look at and publish them, you can quickly build up a following. You now have 15 great ways to start off your practice as a digital photographer. Each one of these tactics can book you with gigs if you put the work into it. Don't wait. Get started today!
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