How do people make money with Digital Cameras?
In this article I would like to describe one of the methods of making money from your pictures. Please note that, first of all, this is the longest method that will not generate your income right away that means that if you are unemployed and looking for ways of making money - leave this method for the better moment and find yourself a job 
After you have tried taking pictures with your old camera or cell phone camera and your friends say that you are doing pretty well, not because they are polite and you are a gentle personality, and recommend you to try and develop your skills. I thought it would be a good idea to give you a couple of hints how it is possible to squeeze a little “Benjamins” out of your developing talent. Don’t expect that as soon as your pictures become available in the Internet you will automatically become rich, selling your work is another type of work and it is debatable which is harder.
So first of all you have to define what type of pictures do you want to take and sell, it can be landscapes, food, people, gadgets etc. I see two main streams in the market of photography: easy-to-sell and not-easy-to-sell pictures confused hah? Nothing to be confused of.
By easy-to-sell I mean those pictures that will be further used as an element of a design by a professional who is looking for a picture to use in his web template, ads banner, company logo whatever people sell tons of them over the internet. Anyone can take a digital camera and start picturing anything from the plane far out in the sky to a sandwich on your plate it all depends on quality of the picture and your ability to see the right frame and be able to take it exactly as you see it.
By not-easy-to-sell pictures are the once that will be printed and framed by custom buyers, the difficulty in this one is that your pictures must be decent, original. People say they buy mostly landscapes and portraits but I say that you can sell a piece of shit only if it’s pictured revolutionary cool. But I am talking not about the art of photography now.
Any type of this business can be profitable and I think that the best approach to start it is to start investing time, efforts and some money in this stuff. You have to have tools and material in order to produce so I would recommend buying a new camera first. The problem is that no one will pay for a picture made from a cell phone camera. So not a bad camera starts with $500 like for example - Canon EOS Digital Rebel XT ($549 on bestbuy.com). Be aware that if you succeed in future the lens for you $3000 camera will cost at least $500 :). But anyway next investment is money again but this time not so much, you will need $5-$10 monthly for hosting your domain and about $15-$20 for a domain name but once. The best way to show what you’ve got is to create portfolio of your pictures. You can update it every day if you want to. There is no sense to create all this fuss if you have just a couple of dozens of pictures, you need hundreds, you need to create a good proposition and the better you categorize it the easier it will be for people to view your works and the more professional you will look.
Next step is to find a good deal for you. One of the ways to sell your pictures is to let sales professionals do it for you. No need to hire them and pay tons of money as there are plenty of services that will sell your works for a certain amount of percent and in order not be an empty worded here is a couple of examples:
www.bigstockphoto.com
www.dreamstime.com
www.submit.shutterstock.com
www.stockxpert.com
Absolutely free registration.
Well I guess that’s it for now. Having all this stuff in your inventory you should be able to start some business of yours. Oh and one more thing while taking pictures of anything don’t think of money you will get for this picture because you will get nothing turn on imagination inside your head and fancy yourself and artist.
by Eugene Korshunovich
