I am Learning Still Photography but i don't know how to make money out of this profession.?
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photography is a really hard profession to get into and start making money- my father tried for years- the best advice I can give you is to see if you can call like a local wedding photographer and intern with him (probably unpaid) so that you can both create a portfolio and get a good reference from him so that when you are ready to go out and be a paid photographer you have both the portfolio and the reference from a respected professional\n\nAlso, you could take any good photos youve done and frame them nicely and bring them to like consignment/art shops and see if they will display them for you- then if they sell you make some money and the store makes some money
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call a local agency and hit up an open audition. if youre really fit for the job...they will offer to pay for your photo sessions and it wont cost you a dime.
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You might wanna try contacting small companies and offering them ur work to them. Its really difficult to get money immediately, as u ll get money only when someone buys ur work. Once u contact some company, and they either buy ur work or use u to do their work for some clients, u ll get contacts, and ofter a period of time, u ll get the confidence to take clients directly, and BINGO
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I would consider hiring an outside photographer so long as the prices were reasonable.  I am in Virginia and one of the admin. gals charges $250 to go to a listing, take what she considers to be "staged" photos and create a windows movie presentation to music on CD.  I found that I like my own photos better but it's difficult enough to make time to go and take photos of every listing, much less to then sit and put together a tour.  I wouldn't mind being able to email someone photos that I took and have them email me back a presentation which could be saved to disk.  I would think that would be more profitable because then you aren't limiting yourself to your local area.  You could procide the service to anyone, anywhere.  Of course if photography is your thing and that's what you are looking to do then I would market yourself by offering a "POGO" offer, Pay for One, Get One.  I don't really care for any of the virtual tours that require stitching because they always look like the "egg" tours, dort of distorted.  I like the ones where the camera seems to zoom in and out.  If there was a high quality 360 tour, I would consider it but I haven't seen one I like yet.  I think that having some sort of staging experience or at least being able to say you completed a staging course would be essential if you are going to actually go and take the photo.  Also, you need to consider access to the homes.  You can always ask the agents to meet you and let you in but I would think that it would be easier to check with the local Realtor board and see if they offer bus. memberships so that you can have a lockbox key (if they are even used in your area).   I know I would much rather pay someone who can let themselves in, take awesome photos, make a nice virtual tour that I could use on my website, on CDs that accomany the brochures etc.. and offers me some sort of discount for multiple jobs.  Just my input!  :)
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IF you already knwo how to do the work, i would start by putting up fliers in the local feedstores.  it is not a way to get rich quick, but it is a foot in the door and a way to build a reputationl.  Another option is to find someone who does this work and see if you cna be a "working student"- you may not get paid but you will be able to learn the trade alongside a professional; i knowa lot of farriers who have learned this way
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Are you asking if you can make money knowing photoshop? If this is it, the answer is yes. Actually, you can make money in just about anything you want - if you market yourself right.\n\nI'm a travel photographer and I edit all my photographs in photoshop. I have 3 other photo editing programs as well - but photoshop is the one that most photographers use. \n\nOther uses are to make brochures or do presentations, however, powerpoint is good for presentations.\n\nIt takes some learning, but photoshop is a good program. If I didn't answer your question the right way let me know and I'll try to help more. My direct e-mail is digital.shutterbug@yahoo.com.
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You can find start-up information from the article "Starting a Home Based Photography Business" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol56/photography.htm . The article also cover tips on pricing your services, marketing your business\n\nYou may also want to check the following associations:\n\nAdvertising Photographers of America ( http://www.apanational.com ) American Society of Media Photographers ( http://www.asmp.org ) Professional Photographers of America, Inc. ( http://www.ppa-world.org ) Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (http://www.wppi-online.com)\n\nYou can also read the following books for more indepth information on the topic:\n\nKen Oberrecht. "How to Start a Home-Based Photography Business." 3rd edition. Connecticut: The Globe Pequot Press, 2000. \n\nGeza Szurovy. "Profitable Photography: Start and Run a Profitable Business:." New York: TAB Books, 1995.\n\nThe Business of Studio Photography : How to Start and Run a Successful Photography Studio by Edward R. Lilley
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You could look for things that were misspelled by the seller, and therefor they wont sell for what they would if they were spelled correctly. You could make lots of money that way by purchasing and then re-selling with the proper spelling. If you want to just sell things yourself, you could go to garage sales and pick up things that could be worth money...dishes, old cameras, computers, etc., and then sell it on e-bay for more than the 25 cents you picked it up for. There are lots of ways to make decent money, it just sometimes takes time in the researching of things. Good luck!!
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There are many opportunities out there.  You have to ask yourself what you would like to do.  Most online jobs are pretty much selling.  People sell products.  To make marginal gains, you would have to create a product that sells.  Because if its something that can be bought, chances are, someone else is selling it already.  Just think of it.  Go search for something that you think nobody sells.  Someone is selling it already.  The best bet is just opening an online store to sell a certain service that you can do at home.  It doesnt have to be a product by the way.  I was asked by a rhodes scholar nominee to be admitted to a university.  On his behalf, I was allowed entry.  He wrote essays for students wanting to go to college in prestigious colleges.  He made 300 to 400 per essay.  It didnt take him long to do it.  He opened a website for it.  It has since been closed down so that he could venture for other things.  As for me, I go and buy and sell coins because I have top notch expertise in coins.  I used to sell used jewelry on Ebay because I worked in a jewelry store.  They would buy used jewelry and melt it.  I in turn bought it off of them and sold them on Ebay after I refurbished them.  The opportunities out there are endless.  But, most dont pay much.  Its really hard to make a buck doing those affiliate programs.  Some have made enormous amounts of money off of them, dont get me wrong, but the ones that do opened a website and advertised it like crazy.  Then they tacked on like 20 different affiliate programs to get people to sign up.  If one person didnt sign up on this one, they would sign up on another.  I would suggest you opening a website to sell a product you create.  It could be anything because once you find a product not too many people sell, then you just advertise your website to make a buck.  Profits are all yours.  But, its a long way to utopia if this is a first for you, let alone the people who still try to make a buck after soo many years of hard work.  The first step is by finding the golden product.  Then second step is making it happen.  Ebooks just came out not too long ago, and alot have made money.  But, that gets over written unless you find something unique to write about that can be useful.  How to make money doing ..etc etc is all played out.  But, can still work if you have a unique way of doing it.  Other then that, knitting, fixing cars, playing at the casino, etc etc is all over the place now.  I improvise and visualize alot of businesses, but most of them dont get out there because there are flaws in the business.  So its tough since I am a part time business consultant.  I check for business policy flaws before I do something.  In most cases, every business has a flaw.  But, if you are good, you can make a business work.  First off, affiliate programs are the worse because 99% of the people who sign up dont make money.  And a good portion of these affiliate programs are scams.  They sound good but dont work.  They jip you without breaking the law.  Others just rip you off, thus breaking the law.  But, nobody catches them.  So, dont try any of that.  I have joined numerous affiliate programs.  The only one that actually paid up was a really honest one.  If it payed, then chances are, they werent making anything.  And it was true, a year later, they closed down.  See?  Someone has to be ripped off in order to survive in that line of work.  If not them then you.  And its 99.99% you if someone gets ripped off.  So be careful.  Um, always go in it for yourself, and not for someone else.  I would first offer advice about what you know most, thus creating the least over head.  That way you can hedge against losses.  I would consult on buying and selling coins, but I make much more just buying it and selling it myself on Ebay.  So, just test something out on Ebay if you think you have the product.  If it sells, you are good to go.  There are soo many suggestions.  So, the best way is to work b
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practice, take portfolio pictures with an expensive professional camera so that you look more professional, and the pictures will turn out better.  use a very pretty model, and have great knowledge of photoshop.  then send it into a big magazine.
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you can set up your own business type deal, do weddings,birthdays, graduation pics etc or if not your own business work in a photography studio that would be cool
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Decide which one you want to do most and what you are best at.  Do you really have a talent and a passion for music, dance or acting?  Or do you just want to be rich and famous?\n\nStart taking lessons locally or get involved in community theater.  You'll see if you still like it and are any good at it.  Then, move on from there.  You can get further training at colleges or places like Juliard, depending on what you want to focus on.\n\nAs far as modeling...I don't think anyone can teach that.  Either you have a unique look that will get you modeling work or you don't.\n\nDon't pay for expensive headshots, videos or demo tapes unless you are very serious and know you have the talent to back it up.  There are plenty of agents, trainers and photographers out there that prey on people's dreams and are only out to take their money.\n\nGood luck.
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Be very good looking for starters.\n\nNext have portfolio of well shot photos that you can submit to agents.\n\nSubmit them. If you are good looking you'll get work. If not you won't. It's a fickle industry.
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If you want to do that as a living, than that's what you should do.  Do professionals payyou want to be a cashier/waitress for ever?  Do you have any other career goal?  If not, and this is what you secrety want as a career go for it.\n\nI work for an advertising agency and a lot of times I try to hire friends, or friends of friends to be in my commercials/print ads, just to cut down on costs.  So he is probably legit.  We pay amateurs $350 for a half day shoot, but if we get a model through an agency we may have to pay $750.\n\nI live on long island and most of the models I have worked with are just regular everyday print ad models, do infomercials and other kinds of stuff.  It's their living, they hve a family like veryone else.  Just because you model doesn't mean your a famous diva.  I hired this 35 year old woman to be in a commercial of mine and she was telling me how she's been doing it for a living since she was a kid and she loves it.\n\nTry it out, don't let people talk you out of it.  If you truly have a good heart than it could never go bad.
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You know what I'd do?  Call the talent agencies and ask them who's the best photographer and who has the best recording studio.  Questions, like this, will ferret out who knows their stuff and who doesn't.  Call them all!  Call every talent agency in the city and the suburbs, as well.  This will give you a consensus from which to work.  Next, I would do some creative loitering.  The agencies that came out on top of your poll should be visited by you.  Not in the office, but outside.  They are usually incredibly busy so set aside a little time to talk with the folks coming in and out.  They'll answer any questions you have.  Now, you have some real groundwork completed and have, probably, a better handle on your city's market than most of your competition.  Next, call the agencies back...yes, everyone of them.  Ask them who the best headshot photographer in town is.  Later that day, call them and ask them who produces the best commercials - what studio gets all the best work?  Schedule a sitting with that #1 photographer and ask for a half hour at the studio polled to be the best.  Explain to the studio that you need a half hour for a demo tape.  That's easy money for them.  Tape some commercials off the TV that you enjoy and feel you could do a good job with.  Copy down script and rehearse until your appointment date.  Now, you have a demo tape from the number 1 studio in your city and a headshot from the industry leading photographer.  This is going to take some money and some time, but you're worth it - aren't you.  The answer had better be yes.  Call the top 5 talent agencies in the surrounding area, according to your polling results.  You are armed to the teeth with only the best product, according to them, themselves, afterall, they did the ratings work for you.  Good luck.  You are now setup to be hired for modeling, acting, and voicework.
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What are you asking here?  Are you selling them? or are you looking on information to sell them?\n\nClarity works wonders.\n\n***\n\nEDIT\n\nI can't say that I have ever heard of anyone selling email photos, but you could always tell people to send you check or money order for them and you will email the image to them.  I don't really see how that will make a lot of money, since that person could then, very easily, email that image to everyone and you loose out on residual sales.  I think you best option is going to be to sell real prints.  Sure, someone could scan it and then email it to everyone, but most people don't want to go through the trouble of doing it.  Plus, any digital image that will be good enough (as in file quality) to print will have to be so huge that it could take an hour for those on dial-up (and yes there are still people on dial-up) to get it.\n\nHere are a couple of people who sell online images.\n\nCafePress will allow you to sell photos, calendars, mugs, shirts, etc. with your image on it, prices vary between $4.99 to $17.99.  The section for prints and greeting cards is:\nhttp://www.cafepress.com/cp/customize/?id=7\n\nPhotographica has a store section that allows you to sell photos that you have posted on their site.  You set the price (they take a very small percentage off the top if I remember correctly) and can have a link from your site to your store on their site.  Not a bad deal, but depending on the type of photo you are selling, this may not be for you (they really frown on "adult" material - for example, but some do have some very good artistic nudes).  Their site for the store it:\nhttp://www.photographica.org/store\n\nThen there is e-Bay.  I don't know a lot about that, but it works well for hundreds of thousands of people a day.  They have an auction site for photos at http://photography.search.ebay.com/photos_Stock-Photography-Footage_W0QQfromZR4QQfsooZ2QQfsopZ2QQsacatZ21198QQssPageNameZWLRS and of course you know you set the price there and they take a bit off the top.\n\nThen there is Yahoo! Photos (http://photos.yahoo.com).  purchase online and pick up at Target or have them delivered to you.  I am not so sure that I would go with that option, but it doesn't hurt to look into it.\n\nGood luck.  When you get it set and start to offer for sale, let me know, I am always interested in seeing what other photographers are doing.
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Consider a job in sales.  It usually doesn't require additional education and you can start making money right away.  You can go really far depending on the items you sell.  Locally and internationally, you can make money and potentially help others by getting them items they need.