There are a lot of photographers in India and around the world. Every day new talents are formed. But many of them only post their photos on their social media. And they don’t even know how to make money keeping those photos. In this post, I'll tell you some ways to make money through photography.
1. Take contract
You make a contract with someone. It could be whoever it is it could be your friend or it could be your relatives or it could be a model or it could be celebrities or it could be anyone. Make a lucrative deal with your customer. Take your time to photograph them. Take good photos and get paid well. This is the primary way to make money through photography or to earn money as a photographer.
2. Selling the photos on stock
The next way is to take a photo first and then sell it. Sell your photos on the website as stock images. There are a lot of websites for selling images. Before selling your photos follow the below steps. This is also the best way to make money through photography.
- Find your niche
- Gather an audience
- Reach the photo to the audience
Getty Images
Getty Images is the best website for selling your photos online. First of all, you have to register or sign in for using this platform. After registration, you can upload your photos for sale.
On this website, you can also upload your stock videos, music, and creativity. This is the advantage of this website. This is website is fully free for using. But they'll charge a fee for your every sale.
Adobe stock
Adobe stock is another website for selling your photos. On this website, you can upload the technically different types of photography. Like vectors, 3d, illustrations and etc. The navigation of this website is fantastic. Thus you can easily use this website. And also it is an American company.
Shutterstock
Shutterstock is an American company. On Shutterstock, there are 200 million-plus stock photos, vector graphics, illustrations, and 10 million-plus videos. On this site photos and videos are very cheap to other websites. There's also an affiliate program, so you can earn money through a refer a new photographer or customer.
These websites are best for selling your photos to make money through photography. And also other websites
- Alamy
- 500px
- Istock
- Stocksy
- Etsy
- Crestock
3. Selling your images to magazines
You can sell your photos to magazines. If you want to sell your photos to magazines or newspapers, you have to take photos accordingly. For example, taking photos like cartoons, taking more realistic, and taking real incidents.
India's top magazines for selling your photos.
- India today
- Forbes India
- Flim fare
- Vogue
- Business today
You can make more money than other methods.
4. Blog
Create a blog and post your photos on that blog. Make your blog unique, simple, and beautiful. Choose your niche and register your domain name based on your niche. And choose the best website hosting and install the plugins and buy some tools for SEO and optimization.
On the blog, you can also show the ads to earn money. And also you can sell your photography to make money.
Do not create your blog with a subdomain on a free platform, you will face many problems if you create, you will definitely have to drop your blog in half. If you create your blog with a free domain on a free platform you can't optimize your blog and you can't control the users and the web page speed will slow cause of blog size. And you can't increase your revenue. Don't forget web page speed is very important. if your blog is very slow definitely, you can not make money through photography with this method.
5. Participating in the Contests
If you are very talented and you have many skills in photography then participate in the contests and win the biggest prizes. But it's not easy. Because of the competition, there are a lot of talented and experienced people. So the competition should be very tough. There are some contests,
- Sony world photography awards.
- Fine art photography awards.
- photocrowd.com.
- Monochrome awards.
- Mono Vision photography awards.
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