Six Ways To Make Money Using Your Digital Camera
Monday, October 24th, 2011These are difficult times for numerous people, so it is a good time to attempt to earn from multiple earning streams. Naturally, numerous people are doing this already with a part-time second job, but what if you could have more fun than working in MacDonald’s on the weekend? Hilarious as that may be.
Most individuals have a camera – even a digital camera. I put it like this because you have more control over the photo with a digital camera, so you have more chance of creating the photo that you would like and this is vital if you would like to sell your work.
Pet Portraits: numerous individuals like to have portraits of their beloved cat or dog. These photos are not a problem to take, because animals are so photogenic. There are several ways you could play this or you could have several different choices, all at different rates
Option One: six photos of kitty in different situations on a CD
Option Two: as over, but with the client’s favourite digital image printed out and framed. You would offer a choice of sizes and frames at different prices here.
Option Three: as option one, but with an oil painting of the favourite photograph again in different sizes and frames
You can use a printing service for option two until you can afford to purchase your own printer. The oil paintings you can have done in the Far East from photos.
Graduation Photographs: are very much appreciated by parents and grandparents and once again, you could offer at least three different choices. Graduation photos are a good notion because not everyone goes to their nearest college or university and parents cannot always be there.
Picture Editing: many people have a digital camera or a cell phone that takes photographs, but not everybody has a computer, or editing software or knows how to use it if they do have it. You could edit, crop, brighten and frame their amateurish photos and create a nice CD photo album.
You could offer to create several themed photo albums from a jumble of hundreds of photos that they have collected at random over the year(s).
Photo Presents: you could team up with a novelty gift store or a personalized gift store and turn people’s favourite photos into personalized, novelty presents. Photographs, especially digital photographs, can be transferred to almost anything these days: coffee mugs, beer mats, coasters, T-shirts, postcards, calendars, pens, ties, you name it.
Framed Photos: places like waiting rooms, front offices, taverns and restaurants like to have tasteful pictures on the wall. You could offer a set of photos on a theme to every establishment according to what they would like. A construction firm may like photos of the board and of their best jobs (presumably they are still standing).
Pub landlords frequently move around a fair bit, so they could have a set of photos of pubs they have owned. Or a series of photos of the current pub, with some historical captions.
Prized Photos: numerous people with expensive possessions like photographs of them – a beautiful home, boat, car or model. Go to the local marina, walk down an expensive street or go to an enthusiasts club meeting (go-kart racing, remote controlled models). Go to fights or local fashion shows and offer photos to contestants or models.
Owen Jones, the writer of this article, writes on lots of topics, but is at present concerned with cameras for beginning photographers. If you have an interest in photography, please go over to our website now at Photography Studio Cameras