How to Make Money Through Photography

This article is about earning a side income via the camera and photography.

You are an avid photographer. You have bought yourself a nice digital compact camera or a digital SLR ( Single Lens Reflex). The camera has brought you hours of joys and pleasure as you create photographic works of art with it. As your hobby grows, you also bought many add-on accessories to improve the capabilities of your camera. You like the hobby. But it is also getting pretty expensive too.

You begin to ask yourself this question. Can I make money using my camera and my photographic skill? Can I recover the cost of maintaining this expensive hobby? The answer is a definite YES!

There are many ways to make money using the camera. I will list two of the more popular methods below:

1. Take up freelance photography projects. There are many types of freelance photography works that one can undertake. Some of the more popular ones are wedding shots and product photography. For product photography, you will need a small studio setup.

2. Selling of stock photographs. Stock photographs are alway in high demand. There are used in so many areas. For example, many magazines and websites use stock photographs for their visuals. Therefore, this area is always in constant need for new and fresh photos. There are many places on the internet that transact stock photographs. For each image sold, the photographer earns a commission.

Well, these are 2 general ways of earning money from the hobby of photography. I hope the article is useful. Thank you for reading.

The author runs Photography ideas and tips, a photography related website. This site features a product call the Photography Business Pack which is a set of digital e-books and tools that is designed to help the photography enthusiast earn an income from his photographic hobby.