How to Make Money with Your Camera: Turn a Hobby Into a Great Full or Part-Time Job Through Freelance Photography
Do you enjoy photography both as an art and a potential income? Are you new to money-making photography where you want to turn a hobby into a full-time or part-time income? Are you presently a freelance photographer having a hard time making ends meet?
Whether you like to shoot in the wide open spaces of the great outdoors or prefer to work in the privacy of your own home, you can turn your dream into a money making reality.
You don't have to have a studio to work as a freelance photographer. Robert Stevens, the author and professional freelance photographer with over 42 years of experience will reveal everything you need to know to start a successful freelance photography business disregard of your background or experience.
Here's a short sample of what you'll learn:
Select and Use Your Camera Properly
* How to correctly set the Aperture and Shutter Speed
* How to get correct exposed picture every time
* How to control light and exposure and compose professional photos, and lots more...
Taking Better Pictures with Digital Cameras
* How to produce marketable pictures. Discover the Photo Buyers Market - see chapter 6
* Marketing Resources and Directories - see chapter 7
* Everything you need to know to successfully market to photo buyers - see chapter 8
* How to reach out and market to more new clients. And much more...
Start Stock Photography Business
The entire chapter 9 is designed to teach you what it takes to succeed in stock photography. You'll learn:
* Price guidelines
* Contracting with an agency
* Starting your own stock photo agency
* List of image rights commonly accepted in the marketplace
* How to manage your digital photos. And much more...
Photographing Sports and Action
* How to break into sports photography
* The key to capturing good sport photos
* How to capture fast-moving action
* How to make money shooting sports
Learn Commercial Photography
* How to get assignments
* Commercial portfolio
* How to negotiate your fee with your client
* Learn how to put a fabulous portfolio together and how to present your portfolio to get assignments, and lots more...
Learn Portrait Photography
* What equipment to choose?
* Posing and expression for a great portrait photo
* Indoor portrait techniques with or without a studio
* Outdoor portrait techniques
* Pricing, promotion and advertising. And much more...
Learn Glamour Photography
The entire chapter 13 is devoted to glamour photography to help you break into successful glamour photography.
* Learn how to plan a successful session, including location, lighting condition, and more
* Selecting clothes, props, and using makeup properly
* Learn how to capture glamour, beauty, character and mood
* Secret to success in glamour photography. And lots more...
Exciting World of Fashion Photography
* Three areas of fashion photography and how to break into fashion photography
* Booking models and model promotion
* Camera and equipment for fashion photography
* Working with models. And much more...
Secrets of Great Portfolios
The entire chapter 15 is dedicated to teach you the most important parts of a great portfolio.
You'll find a Glossary at the end of this book to help you become familiar with terms and definitions used in photography business.
How to Make Money with Your Camera is a comprehensive career guide that provides you with the information you need to succeed in freelance and stock photography. This unique step-be-step guidebook is like having a personal freelance photography instructor at your side. Buy and get started now.
How to Make Money with Your Camera: Turn a Hobby Into a Great Full or Part-Time Job Through Freelance Photography
Paperback – November 19, 2024 by Robert Stevens (Author)
Digital photography
Digital photography uses an electronic sensor such as a charge-coupled device to record the image as a piece of electronic data rather than as
chemical changes on film. Some devices, such as cell phones, now include digital photography features.
Although digital photography is not viewed by all photographers as true photography, it in fact do meet all the requirements to be called such.
While there are no chemical processes, a
digital camera captures a frame of whatever it happens to be pointed at, which can be viewed later.
The pictures you take with your digital camera are easy to copy from your camera to your computer so you can print them and share them with others,
and, also, to back them up for safe keeping. Some digital cameras come with software that will help you copy pictures from your camera to your computer. Windows XP, however, can copy pictures
to your computer without requiring additional software.
Digital cameras tend to be significantly more expensive than those that use film when comparing like for like. This, however, is offset by the
fact that taking photographs is effectively cost-free with a digital camera. The photographs can be taken freely then copies can be distributed over the internet free of charge.
Selection of 35mm film and digital cameras & camcorders
If you're looking for a camera, digital is the way to go for ease of use and quality photos! Buy mini cameras or point and shoot models all the
way up to Prosumer and Professional Digital SLR Cameras. Digital cameras come in several different megapixel ratings, from 1.3MP, 2.0MP, 3.1MP, 5 Megapixel (5.0 MP), 6.0MP, 7.0MP and beyond.
If you'd like to shoot video instead of still images, we also have many different camcorders in stock. Digital and video cameras by Nikon Coolpix, Canon EOS Rebel and Canon Powershot, Olympus
Stylus, Kodak Easyshare, Sony Cybershot, Samsung Digimax, JVC, Hitachi, Fuji Finepix, Vivitar Vivicam, Vupoint, Pentax, HP Photosmart, Konica Minolta Dimage, Panasonic, and Polaroid!
Photography Interest
Photography has gained the interest of scientists and artists from its inception. Scientists have used photography to record and study movements,
such as the study of human and animal locomotion. Artists are equally interested by these aspects but also try to explore avenues other than the photo-mechanical representation of reality,
such as the pictorialist movement.
Photography is commonly used to preserve memories of favourites and as a source of entertainment. However, military, police and security forces
use photography for surveillance, recognition and data storage.
Photography Accessories
Photography accessories can be anything that you need, want, or see from one given moment to the next. Only a very small amount of these
photography
accessories, digital or flim, can truly be thought of as essential to the serious photographer, everything else is just for the fun of it. There are many things that you will need in your quest
for digital photo-taking. Its just as bad and maybe even worse, than the masses of stuff you need with a good film camera. No matter how you look at it, most of these digital photography accessories
are stuff that we buy just to please ourselves, just as with a film camera.
You will, however, quickly discover that there are additional accessories that are absolutely necessary. Such as an extra set of batteries. Digital cameras drain battery power quickly than film
cameras. You need extras on hand for when the set in your camera unexpectedly runs out.
A tripod
is considered essential when taking photographs in low light. Tripods come in a variety of sizes including mini, table-top models that can be carried around in shirt pocket or purse.
Then there are the camera bags and cases designed for digital cameras to protect them from knocks, bumps and inclement weather.
Digital image files are huge and only a few photos can be saved to the built-in memory or small starter card that comes with a camera. They are fine for testing if a new camera functions properly,
or for taking a few photos in a pinch, but you will need a memory card with larger capicity. The size memory card you need depends a lot on the megapixel count of your digital camera.
If you puchase any of these essential accessories, get the best quality you can afford. Whatever camera kit you have there will be some essential digital camera accessories that you could probably
do without, but if you had them, your life would be so much easier! Now is a good time to splurge on a 64MB, 128MB, or even 256MB memory card. Prices on memory cards of all types have dropped
dramatically in the last year.
Don't forget to add wide-angle and telephoto adapter lenses to your bag of accessories. A 3X optical zoom may sound great when you first bring your camera home from the store, but you'll soon find
that the lens doesn't have the reach you'd like.
Digital photography means being able to print out your own photos. Older ink jet printers probably won't cut it, look into buying a modern
photo-quality printer.
Light Note
Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects are recorded onto
a sensitive medium or storage chip through a timed exposure. The process is done through mechanical, chemical or digital devices known as cameras. Traditionally the product of photography has
been called a photograph. The term photo is an abbreviation; many people also call them pictures. In digital photography, the term image has begun to replace photograph. (The term image is
traditional in geometric optics.)
Photography Trivia
The term photography used to describe the photographic process was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel, a 19th century astronomer and one of the first
photographers. The term is a combination of the two Greek words, photos (meaning light) and graphein (meaning writing or drawing).
Darkroom and camera are from the Latin term "camera obscura." Traditionaly, camera obscura was a dark room with light shining through a lens or tiny hole in the wall. The light passing
through the hole would form an upside-down real image on the opposite wall. This effect was very popular with artists, scientists and curious spectators. Thus, the "camera obscura"
or "Darkroom" was actually invented hundreds of years before photography.
The Megaprime digital camera is the world's biggest digital camera. It is bolted onto a telescope to see a field of view of one degree and has a total pixel density of 340 megapixels. It
is able to capture 1 Gigabyte images (1 degree by 1 degree on the sky) do to it's combination of forty CCD’s.
