Article by Barry Krembil
Did you know that you can make money selling your digital photographs? Many of the digital photos you have filed on your computer can be sold and earn you a regular, monthly income. This article examines how to make money from photography.
Think about the number of photographs you see daily in magazines, advertising brochures, books and websites. Millions of photographs are required every day by publishers, magazines, newspapers, advertising agents, filmmakers, writers, web designers, graphic artists and many others throughout the world. It is more economical and more efficient for them to pay for existing photographs then use their own photographers. They regularly use ‘stock’ photographs for their work, and pay to use those photos.
Stock photographs are purchased from ‘Stock Photography’ websites. These websites have a high demand for new photos. All you need to do is help supply the demand by submitting your photos (for free) to these stock photography sites. Every time your photo is downloaded by a publisher, writer, advertising agent, etc, you will be paid for the use of your photograph. Your photo stays in the stock photography database (as long as you wish) and can be used over and over and over again – and you are paid each time it is used.
Before you think that your photos are not that outstanding and would not sell, consider the following:
A photo of lawn grass in the first month it was sold, earned the owner $ 638! That’s right – $ 638 for a photo of grass!
A photo of 3 business people working at their desk is earning its owner $ 479 per month, every month!
A photo of two children working on computers at school is earning its owner $ 103 per month, every month!
These numbers can be verified by visiting http://www.istockphotocom. Some other stock photography websites include bigstockphoto.com, dreamstine.com, shutter stock.com to name just a few.
Stock photography sites make their money by selling photos from their database. In turn, they pay a commission to the owner of that photo when it is sold (downloaded). The commission depends on the size of the image the purchaser downloads – the larger the image, the greater the commission you receive. The key to how much you make from a particular photo is the number of times it is downloaded. One photograph could be downloaded many times over by different people and companies.
Your photos do not have to be outstanding, professionally taken masterpieces. There is a need for simple day-to-day photos. Photos like a pile of old bricks, a man jogging, a beautiful girl smiling, and a kitchen sink are just some examples of photos that have been downloaded and purchased. The different kinds of photos needed and used are endless. If you can take simple, clear photographs, then you can potentially earn money from those photos.
Spend some time looking at the different stock photography sites. Find out what type of pictures are being submitted and downloaded. Learn the specifications required to submit your photos, and then submit your photos as specified by the website. Joining the site, and submitting your photos is free.
You will also need to title your photos – the title is important. You will want to provide keyword titles, so that when someone is searching for a particular kind of photo, yours will have a good probability of coming up. The keyword title should describe your photo. The more descriptive your keywords are, the better the chances of your photo coming up.
Why not make money with your photos? Take some time to search and look through several stock photography websites. Read their requirements and specifications. Then consider the photos that you have filed on your computer. If you enjoy taking pictures with your digital camera, start clicking away – you will have some idea what types of images you want to capture with your camera after examining the stock photography sites.
Have fun with itandmake yourself some money.
About the Author
Barry Krembil is a former educator who has worked as a classroom teacher, school administrator, provincial educational administrator and corporate trainer/facilitator. He has established an online marketing business which specializes in helping individuals start, implement and build a legitimate online marketing business. You can learn more at: http://www.legitimateonlinemarketing.com, or contact the author at barry@legitimateonlinemarketing.com if you would like the ebook on how you can Earn $ 300 a Week With Your Digital Camera.
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Barry Krembil is a former educator who has worked as a classroom teacher, school administrator, provincial educational administrator and corporate trainer/facilitator. He has established an online marketing business which specializes in helping individuals start, implement and build a legitimate online marketing business. You can learn more at: http://www.legitimateonlinemarketing.com, or contact the author at barry@legitimateonlinemarketing.com if you would like the ebook on how you can Earn 0 a Week With Your Digital Camera.
Use and distribution of this article is subject to our Publisher Guidelines
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Question by pinkobsession123: What are MY chances at getting into Northwestern University? NYU? University of Chicago?
It’s the summer before my senior year and I have just 4 months before I begin applying to schools, and I was wondering if any of you have any helpful advice and guidance for me? My stat’s are listed below, what are my chances of getting to NYU/Northwestern University/University of Chicago majoring in Film and Cinema Studies?
What should I do to improve my chances with my 12 week summer break?
Unweighted GPA: 3.89
Class Rank; Top 3%
ACT Composite: 26 (retaking in September)
Grades in General: 4 B’s in entire high school career
Class Choices: 95% Honors courses and IB courses
Background: Liberian American, daughter of immigrants, daughter of a refugee
Extracurriculars:
4 Years of Student Government – Leadership Roles
Director of the School News Production
Student Body President of Jr.High School
Member of National Honor’s Society
Concert Choir
Internation Baccalaureate Student Ambassador
Mock Trial – Lead Attorney
Drama Club – Lead Dancer
Girl’s State Delegate
Honor’s Student, 2 Academic Letters, Award in Language B, Academic Achievement Award ’08
Editor of Literatary Magazine
Advocate for Volunteer Work: Over 250 hours with various organazitions including CEAP and Food for Life.
(in the process) Founder of the Future Filmmakers Club
Organization of the School Improvement Crew
Bruegger’s Bagels Employee- Summer ’09
Anything else you think I could do to greatly improve my chances. I appreciate it!!
Thanks, but I did mention I will be retaking my ACT and have many study aides that will help me increase my score. Where is documented about the +5 for being black? And is there anything ELSE besides my obviously low score on the ACT that I can work on?
Best answer:
Answer by PE2008
You can’t get into these schools with this 26 ACT score unless maybe you’re black.
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“The above answerer must have some issues with African Americans.”
Sigh… The answerer below obviously does not know being black is equivalent to adding ~5 points to an ACT score. This is well-documented…
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“Where is documented about the +5 for being black? ”
http://opr.princeton.edu/faculty/tje/espenshadessqptii.pdf:
“African-American applicants receive the equivalent of 230 extra SAT points (on a 1600-point scale), and being Hispanic is worth an additional 185 SAT points… Asian-American applicants face a loss equivalent to 50 SAT points.”
[230 old SAT ~ 345 new SAT ~ 5 ACT]
“Anything else you think I could do to greatly improve my chances?”
Change your name to Keisha Gonzales.
Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!