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If Travel For Business, Make Some Extra Money On the Side
Use Your Time Away To Make Money One way to make some extra money as a travel
professional is to get paid for some of the photos that you take while you are on the road.
If you already do a lot of traveling for your business, then you can start this business for free.
For some other articles on travel photography, you can check out www.charterpilotguide.blogspot.com.
Learn to Take a Great Photo
If you want to make money doing this you will need to learn how to take great travel photos.
If you want to get into the world of commercial photos, you need to understand that it is clarity that sells.
One article cannot cover everything you need to know about taking a good photo but here are some important tips to get you started.
Resource
For more important tips and free stock photos check out www.free-stock-pictures.com.
Tips
You can really do this with any camera but at some point you should get a high quality one like a Canon Rebel.
Learn how to use it and all of the features that it has. You should pull out the operating guide and really learn about each
feature. If you buy a high quality camera you can also find books specifically
on your model at the book store. You can also probably find articles on the web for your specific
model· Have an eye for detail and color.
Start observing the world around you and look for situations that might appeal to other individuals in a photo.
Be ready to grab an opportunity when it presents itself.
Example
For example if you are hiking through the hills of Scotland and come across a lone piper, grab your camera and get some pictures.
Photograph Everything
Look for anything that you can photograph and take the picture.
Look for sunsets, moonrise, cloud formations, rivers, oceans, beaches and tree shapes.
You Want to Take Pictures of Everything. One great thing about a digital camera is that
you can take tons of pictures and only keep the ones that turn out good.
You no longer will be wasting money on film learning your craft.
Take pictures of buildings and cool sights
Take a lot of flower pictures
These are always good sellers. Greeting card markets love photos of flowers
Wildlife and Nature
These are great for calendars and geographic magazines and educational markets.
Diverse Array of Subjects
• Having a diverse array of subjects that you photo is the key to success in any photo business.
• It also applies to a travel photography business.
• The more topics that you cover the more potential sales you can get.
• You can make a good living from stock photography.
Think Outside the Box
Use your travels to sell photos. You do not necessarily have to sell your
photos as travel photos. You can sell your flower photos to calendar
companies or whatever.
So take pictures of everything.
For the pictures that turn out like crap, just delete them.
For the ones that do turn out good, think about who would be interested in that subject and market it to those types of companies.
Where to Submit
You can also submit them to stock photography sites and let them sell the pictures for you.
Travel guides, brochures and websites are all possible markets for your photos but so is every other market.
So if you decide to be a travel photographer just don’t limit yourself to travel photography.
There is a wide range of markets that you can sell your pictures to.
The main thing to aim for with any photo is to sell it to multiple markets.
This is how you will make big money in this business.
Develop a Portfolio
One thing you will want to do is to create a portfolio of your best work.
That way you can advertise to potential clients using actual photos that you have taken.
A high quality portfolio will look better than rummaging through your desk to find some examples.
What to Charge
The other thing is that you should charge a fair amount for your photos.
You don’t have to sell them for just pennies. You should sell them for a lot more because you
have spent a lot of time learning your art. You also spent a lot of timing finding and taking the
perfect picture. So don’t sell yourself short. Research what others are charging at Stock Photo
Sites to get an idea of what to charge for yours
Other Places to Submit Photos
If you really know what you are talking about and can take a fantastic shot, think of submitting it to a photographic magazine, along with all the details of the precise equipment you used and a step-by step account of your procedure.
A bit of a challenge maybe, but worth the effort. There are many other markets to consider too; all
kind of magazines, newspapers, catalogues, travel brochures and books.
So grab that camera and start shooting