3 Trends That Will Affect Your Photography Earnings
Photography: Daniel.d.slee It was changing trends in the world of photography that made it possible for enthusiasts to earn income from their images. Digital SLRs became cheap enough for anyone to produce professional quality photographs. The growth of the Web created a whole new market for low-cost imagery, and the rise of microstock produced one...
How Photographers Can Benefit from Christmas
Photography: alice popkorn As the Christmas countdown continues, stores and businesses are moving into high gear to cash in on the shopping spree. For photographers too, the holiday represents an important opportunity not just to fill stockings with new lenses, light meters and other gifted gear but to produce images that match the demand of...
You Could be a Professional Photographer When…
Photography: Jofre Ferrer Not everyone who picks up a camera and enjoys taking pictures wants to be a professional photographer. Many are happy with their day jobs and like the fact that they can spend the weekends shooting whatever they want. Unlike a professional, they don’t have to think about satisfying a client or pleasing...
The Right Way to Answer a Photo Buyer
Photography: Caro’s Lines Making money from an image involves two steps. The first is to shoot a picture that someone will pay to use. That’s the fun bit. It’s the step that absorbs most of your effort and it’s the activity that turns enthusiasts into photographers. Get it right, place the pictures where people can...
Shoot Sellable Images without Leaving the House
Photography: Nebojsa Mladjenovic Vanessa Dualib’s photography career took off when illness restricted her to her house. Forced to make her own amusement, she played with food and cameras, uploaded the results to Flickr and ended up with an offer from Getty. Emin Kuliyev too spent a year in bed after a car accident broke his...
The Biggest Obstacles to Your Photo Sales
Photography: The U.S. Army/Sgt. Travis Zielinski It’s now possible for any talented photographer armed with some basic technical knowledge, a consumer DSLR and a reasonable amount of talent, to sell their pictures. But not everyone is doing it. Not all photographers are making their pictures available to buyers and not all of them are making...
Photographs Don’t Want to Be Free
Stewart Brand famously declared that information wants to be free. Newspapers have been cursing him ever since. But what about images? If words are crying for freedom, are pictures also aching to be used for no fee and without royalties? Should photographers ever give away their work, and how can they be sure that their...
Magazines that Take Pictures from Amateurs
Photography: Daniel Y. Go Landing an assignment to shoot the cover of Vogue or fill the pages of the New York Times Magazine isn’t likely to happen to everyone. You’ll need a resume filled with publications, years of professional experience, and a contact list that contains the names of some top editors. But the giant...
Global Differences in Photography Prices
Photography: ToastyKen
Photographers have felt the effects of outsourcing in surprising ways. Back in the glory days of photojournalism, shelling out thousands of dollars to ship a photographer to a war zone might have been considered as much a part of a news magazine’s expenses as typewriter ribbon, shoe leather and lengthy bar tabs. Today, with...
The Worst Photography Tax Stories
Taxes are a nightmare at the best of times. There’s the form-filling, the receipt-keeping, the revenue-calculating and finally, the check-writing. That always hurts. And there’s very little escape from it. Even part-time photographers have to do the tax thing and hand over large chunks of their sales to the IRS – at least, they’re supposed...
