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7 Tips to Make Crazy Money in Photography


by Jonathan Souza

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Table of Contents
%ip &1' (et )s *any People as Possi le to See +our Pictures.................................................................., So ho# !o - get those pictures online".................................................................................................., .ot rea!y to uil! a #e site yet"........................................................................................................../ %ip & 0' 1se *icro Stock as Spring Boar! to *a2or -ncome...................................................................3 Blueprint for making B-( money #ith micro stock photography.........................................................3 %ip &4' 5in! those usinesses that .EE$ a photographer like you.........................................................11 %ip &, ' Photograph E6ents that Pay %ons of Cash..................................................................................1, %ip &/' %ake .e#s#orthy Pictures an! Chase that Story........................................................................13 7hat kin! of photos are consi!ere! ne#s#orthy" ............................................................................18 %ip 9&' Shoot )erial Photography for Homes )n! Businesses...............................................................00 Ho# *uch Can +ou *ake #ith )erial Photography"........................................................................00 $o - .ee! to 5ly to $o )erial Photography"......................................................................................01 Shoot (reat )erial Photos #ithout a Plane.........................................................................................01 %ip &3' *ake a %on of $ough #ith :ther People;s Pictures....................................................................04 -n Conclusion...........................................................................................................................................0,

About me: Hi, my name is Jonathan Souza and I have shot all kinds of photography during my career; everything from landscape and nature to eddings and sporting events! "his little, easy to read ebook is a compilation of some of the things I have learned about some of the big money makers in the photography business! "here is no need to be a starving artists as this business can bring in H#$% amounts of income, and I ill be talking about &ust a fe of those methods! Hope you en&oy!

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"here are many different ays to make money ith your camera! "he key is to start ith one particular kind of photography that orks best for you and stick ith it! I ill be highlighting some of the best kno n ays to make a lot of money ith digital photography, so if you love photography like I do, I am sure your mind ill be spinning ith ideas after you are done ith this book! In this ebook I ill be giving ' tips on ho to bring in the money ith your camera! "hese tips are by no means e(haustive and that)s hy I am riting another ebook that ill have all the &uicy details of ho to make it big ith this business! So sit back, and en&oy as you learn ho to hit it big ith your passion of photography! *on)t you &ust love the thought of getting paid for something you love to do+

Tip #1: Get As Many People as Possible to See Your Pictures


$et those millions to see your pictures instead of &ust thousands or &ust your circle of friends! %(posure is crucial! ,ot only ill having more people see your pictures help you make more money, but it)s also good for branding! If people begin to see your pictures in more than one place they ill begin to see that you are a big name photographer! Suddenly, the demand for your pictures ill go up and people ill be illing to spend more to have your images! -ears ago it ould be tough to get a huge amount of people to see your pictures if you ere &ust starting out, but ith the internet it)s not only possible, but it should be one of your main priorities to make your pictures vie able online!

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,o matter hat kind of photography you ant to get into, if you don)t have some samples of your ork online, you ill be shutting out hat could be a huge portion of your income!

So how do I get those pictures online? .ell you have t o options: /! $et your o n ebsite 0! #se e(isting ebsites for free "here are a lot of advantages to having your o n ebsite! ,o matter hich option you pick, you ill eventually ant your o n ebsite! "his helps ith the branding process and gaining brand recognition too! $et your o n name as the domain name i!e! 1yourname!com2 or you can be a little more creative! %ven ith absolutely no H"34 or eb design e(perience I as able to set up a ebsite using the free soft are called .ordpress! If you can use a ord processor you can build a site! 5irst you need a ebhost! I recommend Hostgator! 6heck them out here! "hey are the cheapest around ith amazing customer support if you ever need help! #sing their cpanel you can install .ordpress ith a couple clicks of the mouse! "hen &ust find a nice free .ordpress theme and you are ready to let the orld see your photos! Not ready to build a website yet? Here are some ays you can use some free ebsites online to sho your pictures and your portfolio: off

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-ou can also &ust put some of your best pictures together on a free hosted blog! "he best free blogging services to use are:
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9r if you ant you can use some social net orking sites and use the po er of .eb 0!:! Here are some free sites you can &oin to advertise your photography for free and get some traffic to your portfolio:
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.ith all of the sites above you can add your photos and rite something about them and your photography! "hen you can put the #<4 of your portfolio on your 5acebook, 3yspace, or 4inkedin pages so your friends can see your ork! -ou can also use that #<4 in your email and forum signatures for even more e(posure! 8ut if you really really <%A44- ant people to see your pictures you have to put them here people ho are 499=I,$ for pictures go! And here is that> %very month there are 3I44I9,S of people ho visit micro stock photography sites ith money in hand, ready to buy photos!
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-ou can upload your pictures to these sites and people can buy do nloads of them! So after you put your pictures on there they can sell over and over again hile you do nothing but rake in the dough! It)s really ;uite simple and there are some making ? digit figures ith micro stock right no ! 9nce you build up a nice size portfolio on the sites belo it ill not be impossible to be making at least an e(tra @/,::: a month, and the more you ork at it you can make that @/,::: per eek! 3any give up before they see profits like this, but don)t be like themAB Here are some of the sites I am making money on right no , time getting more e(posure for my photos! /!
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!*reamstime!com !istockphoto!com !5otolia!com !shutterstock!com !8igstockphoto!com

I ould recommend starting ith dreamstime!com! "hey are fairly lenient on accepting your pictures and you can upload a bunch at one time to start selling them one do nload at a time! 5otolia is a great place to start too! "here is one certain picture that I sell at least once a day on 5otolia and it makes me over @/:: a month, every month, no matter hat! In the ne(t email I am going to sho you my blueprint for making 8I$ money ith micro stock photography so hold on! In the mean time you can get signed up at any of the micro stock sites above by clicking on the links provided!

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Tip # !: "se Micro Stock as Spring #oar$ to Ma%or &nco'e


Blueprint for making BIG money with micro stock photography. 9=, say you have a picture like I mentioned in the last chapter that is selling fairly consistently on a micro stock site like 5otolia or *reamstime, but it is only making you about a dollar a day on average, instead of @C! -ou can have pictures selling much better than this, but let)s &ust use a conservative figure for our e(ample!

,o , let me remind you that not every picture is going to sell ell, and it may take a hile to learn the ropes! About 0:D of my pictures on micro stock make me E:D of my earnings! And that)s because I did not understand hat kind of pictures sell and hich ones don)t hen I first started! ,o I kno ho to take pictures that I kno ill sell like crazy! "his is a topic I cover e(tensively in my ebook F hich is coming soon by the ayB! So let)s do the math to see ho for a dollar at a time: much you can make even selling your pictures

9ne picture in your portfolio makes you @/ per day on average! "hen let)s say you are able to gro your portfolio online to /:: pictures! A decent start! -ou can do this by &ust adding /: pictures a day for /: days!
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If even 0:D of your pictures are as successful as your first you @0: per day!

ill be making

And remember you can sell your photos on more than one micro stock photo site at a time! I am selling my pictures on about ? micro stock ebsites right no and that &ust multiplies my income ith each picture I submit! "o remind you, here are some of the best micro stock ebsites I recommend and make me money right no :

*reamstime 5otolia

Istockphoto Shutterstock 8igstockphoto

4et)s say after a fe months you are able to ork very hard and build up your portfolio to /,::: images on &ust one micro stock site! Again, assuming that only 0:D of your pictures are able to sell once a day you can be making @0:: every day, and even if you don)t ork the ne(t eek, that money ill still come in! ,o ill everyone ho does this make @0:: a day from their pictures> Absolutely not! 8ut they 6A, if they learn ho to take pictures that people ant to buy! If you think you can &ust thro any old picture up on a site and see the money roll in then you ill only be disappointed and give up too soon!

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Here is a process that can help you make the most money for your pictures using micro stock: 5ocus on the pictures that are orth more to buyers Set aside a couple hours a day to start building up a stock photo portfolio Aim for getting /:: pictures or more every month approved by a site! After si( months you <evie ill have ?:: pictures! hat pictures are selling the best!

=eep taking pictures and submitting to micro stock sites! Set goals of making @G:: a month, @/,::: a month, @0,:::, @G,::: and beyond! "he key to making a huge amount of money ith micro stock is to submit hot selling photos often to the sites! If you do this it ill be difficult ,9" to make money! 9nce you are making @/,::: or more a month, don)t stop! As you keep orking to build your portfolio ith ne photos you ill continue to make money ith the old ones that are already approved! And therein lies the beauty of this strategy of making money ith your camera! -ou are building residual income! -ou ill be able to shoot eddings, senior portraits, and birthday parties .HI4% you are still making money ith your stock photos! And by the ay, you can get a lot of stock photos during some of your photo sessions too! Some of my best selling photos I have taken hile shooting a edding! I ould see the brides shoes in the indo ith some nice light coming in, take the picture, and upload it to a micro stock photo site later on to make even more
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money! =eep in mind that you ill need to put some language in your contracts to use some of those pictures for stock photos! And any pictures of people ill have to have a model release signed by those people! So for no , you might ant to &ust focus on nonHpeople photos! In the Crd tip for making money ith photography e businesses that need a photographer like you! ill look at finding those

If you ant to get a &ump start in micro stock photography and need some guidance, I ould recommend checking out this guide called Stock Ihotography: $oing *igital! "he ebsite is J%<- cheesy and he really needs a ne design going on there, but this is an ebook ritten by a guy ho is making a =I44I,$ in the orld of micro stock, so you might as ell learn from the best if you ant to become the best!

Tip #(: )in$ those businesses that *++, a photographer like you
%very business needs photos, but some are illing to pay big bucks for you to take them! ,ot all businesses ant to simply buy their pictures off of a micro stock photography ebsite because they ant a picture that no one else has! Sometimes a photo ill be sold on istockphoto thousands of times and the market gets too saturated ith that one picture for a business to use it! 9r sometimes they &ust need a very specific picture of the products that they make! Here is hy big and small businesses need your photos:
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for brochures about their company for their ebsite to sho clients hat they make to use in all forms of advertising for ads in the paper for putting together user manuals about their products for pictures of their orkers and e(ecutives .hen you alk into a business you can use all of the above points to sho company ho they ould benefit from hiring you to take photos for them! the

Sho them ho having better ;uality pictures of their products ould lead to better sales! Sho them ho more professional looking photos can make a huge difference from a clients point of vie ! So hat kind of businesses need you as a photographer> Here are &ust a fe you can get started on, and then add to the list as you go!

-estaurants H "hey need pictures for their menus as ell as their advertisements! "aking pictures of food on a plate is a bit like stock photography! It)s very simple and you can make any dish look fantastic! "he restaurant ill benefit from those pictures in their ads as ell! .e all kno ho amazing a picture of food can look hen you are really hungry, so sho the o ners of the restaurant that by having some nice pictures of the food they serve they can get more customers! "hey can put these pictures in a flyer or some other form of advertisement to help gro their business! .ffices H 9ne thing that most offices need are portraits of their employees! %(ecutive portraits can be a very lucrative business! 5or your first business you can do them for free so you can build up a small
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portfolio of e(ecutive portraits to sho to other businesses some samples of your ork! Just set up a schedule for getting the pictures done in a timely fashion Fas most employers don)t ant to aste any of their employees timeB and use the same basic backdrop for each shot! Some basic lighting techni;ues ould help ith this! #uil$ers K %very builder is proud of the houses they have built, but they ant some professional photographs to reflect their ork! -ou can take some e(terior shots but get a lot of nice interior pictures as ell! It helps to turn on all the lights and only use your flash if you are bouncing it off the ceiling or through some sort of diffusion device to give it a natural look! Corporate +/ents H At a corporate event you ill have to capture people speaking behind a podium, activities and use an over all photo &ournalistic kind of approach! "here can be big big money in photographing corporate events! "he company may ant to use your pictures in their brochures or other forms of advertising so keep this in mind as you shoot the events! Corporate Portraits K "here are a lot of really pathetic corporate portraits out there! Sho the company the need to have pictures of their 1big igs2 in their orking environment so the picture ill reflect hat they do! "his ill give the photos some personality! "hese can be done in a very professional manner too! #sually it)s not too hard to improve on the portraits that the company already has unless they have used a professional photographer before! 0ebsite Pictures K Have you ever been on a ebsite and &ust said to yourself, 1.o , these pictures are horrible2> .ell you ant to put it nicely to the ebsite o ner, but sho them some of the pictures from your portfolio and sho them ho a ebsite is usually the first impression a person gets of your business! $reat pictures on your ebsite can be a huge step in the right direction to looking professional and increasing business! Architectural photography K 6ompanies that have either huge high rise buildings or &ust big comple(es all need great images of their buildings! "his goes right along ith good branding and companies ill pay big bucks if you can get the perfect picture of their building that really helps represent them ill! If you feel sneaky you can even take some pictures of the building and then sho them to the company and see if they are interested in buying them!
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Press -elease photography K .hen a business has a press release they ant to make sure they have good pictures to represent them! 3ost of the people that see these pictures ill only get that one shot to get the first impression of the business so you can advertise doing some press release photography to make some e(tra money! -ou can shoot some grand openings as ell and then offer to deliver it to the ne spaper company for submission!

Advertising is one of the biggest parts of a companies budget, so hy not take advantage of that> -ou need to be able to take pictures that are both artistic and that carry the concept that the company ants to convey! I really en&oy taking pictures of the products the company makes! -ou need to take as much pride in your picture of the product as the company has in producing it! A great picture of their product can be a huge benefit for them in advertising as most of their buyers ill make decisions on hat they think about the product by &ust looking at the picture! 4ook at the pictures they already have and see if you can improve on them!

"he list of businesses that are needing photographers can go on and on! If this is a niche you ould be interested in, go ahead and start building a portfolio of some business pictures to sho your potential clients!

Tip #1 : Photograph +/ents that Pay Tons of Cash


%vent photography is huge, and I am going to sho you the markets that ill

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pay you the most for your time! 8ut first some advice: .hen you are taking pictures at any event you really need to stay on your toes! It is not a very rela(ing form of photography but it sure is e(citing! -ou have to keep your eyes roaming about constantly to make sure you are not &ust capturing hat every one else is looking at but also their reactions to hat they are seeing as ell! <eaction shots sell the most in any event photography situation! So don)t &ust shoot the bride coming do n the aisle; shoot the grooms reaction to seeing her in her dress for the first time as ell! *on)t &ust take a picture of little 8illy hitting a homeHrun; capture his parents screaming in the stands as ell! 2o3 to Get the Prints to Your Clients: 8efore talking about the different ays to make money ith event photography, let me &ust say ho easy it can be to offer prints to your customers! I never handle prints anymore! "here are services online that you can use to upload the pictures from the event and then charge hatever you ant for them! "he customer gets on that site and orders different sizes of different pictures and the company ill accept the credit card payment and print and ship the pictures for you+ So all you have to do is upload the pictures and you are done! "he service I use is called Irintroom!com, but there are others like Smugmug!com and Ihotoreflect!com as ell! I highly recommend using a service like this because then you can &ust
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concentrate on taking great pictures! Here are some ays you can tap into the huge market of event photography: 0e$$ing Photography H "his one is pretty obvious but it has to be mentioned! 3any photographers make their full time income from shooting eddings! I have shot dozens of them in a very short period of time so I really had to start turning some of them do n since I anted to focus on other things besides edding photography! 8ut you can very easily charge bet een @0,::: and @G,::: per edding and &ust shoot on eekends! @0:,::: a month for eekend ork is not too shabby! If you ant to learn more about ho to make the most money out of your edding photography I can highly recommend a product called Ihoto8izfor#! "he easy to follo guide ill step you through everything you need to kno in 'aking 'oney 3ith 3e$$ing photography! A'ateur Sporting +/ents K "his is another huge market right no ! "his includes everything from tee ball, to little league, high school basketball, football, and any other sport that children play at their school, church or for a league! -ou can either be paid by the parents of the kid you are to take pictures of or sometimes coaches ill ant to hire you! I have done some team portraits at the -36A before! If you are being hired by the parents of the player you ill ant to focus the pictures on that one player, but if shooting for the hole team it ill take a little more ork and you can charge much more! 0hat4s the best 3ay to get starte$ 3ith shooting sporting e/ents5 Just bring your camera and the biggest lens you have to the game and start snapping pictures! =eep that business cards on your pocket because you ill be passing them out like crazy! I have drummed up all kinds of business using this method! If someone comments on your camera or photography &ust tell them here they can see the photos online! -ou ill either gain a potential customer or client! %ither they ill buy some of your photos of the game, or they ill ant to hire you to take pictures of some other event! %ither ay, it)s a in in, as you gain e(perience shooting sporting events and also get some good publicity too+
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#irth$ay Parties K "here are parents illing to spend big bucks on their child)s birthday party, so this is another great opportunity! 8e sure to capture all kinds of e(pressions as ell, especially if it is a young child! #aptis's K I have been paid very ell for doing some church baptisms! "hese are very special occasions for the parents so they ill usually buy a lot of photos from your site after ards #usiness Special ,ays H I remember doing some photo ork for 6hicH 5ilHA hen they had a big promotion! It as a lot of fun and there ere a ton of people there! "hey had face paintings and of course the 6o as doing all kinds of crazy things so I had to be on my toes during that hole time! 8ig days are great for businesses as they can have some of those pictures in the paper or &ust use them in their ne sletters! Gra$uations K -ou can often charge as much for a graduation event as you ould for a edding, depending on ho much ork they ant for you to do! 9ften you ill not only have to cover the ceremony and get some nice professional shots but also a graduation party and shoot in a more photo &ournalistic style! #aby ,e$ications 6 .hen photographing a baby dedication in a church you ill ant to be careful not to be too intrusive! #se a telephoto lens as much as possible and stay out of the ay! 9f course if the parents actually ant you up front and close to all the action you need to do that! "hey are the bosses and you are the employee for that day! "here are all kinds of events you can make money from, so keep your eyes open and al ays be illing to offer your services to an even that is going on! -ou may even have a singer or musical group ant to hire you to get some great shots for their 6* cover or ebsite! "he key to a successful even photo session is to make sure you have a meeting ith the clients before the even takes place and go over all of the boring details! 3ake sure you kno hat they are looking for and hat they e(pect of you! "his puts you at ease as ell as the clients! -ou don)t ant to have to guess hat the client ants and then hope you get it right! "his ill &ust lead to more
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frustration for you! "he sports event photography market can bring in tons of money! So if you like sports this may be the perfect ay for you to start making money ith your camera! "here can be a lot of ork in trying to get off the ground and running in shooting sporting events and that)s hy I think you ill love this ebook I have found called Sports Photo Success! 5rom my contact ith the author of this book I kno it ill be a huge help in giving you some direction and some step by step instructions on making money in this very lucrative market! So if you feel like it, check out Sports Photo Success 2ere! "ip LG is going to be eye opening for many of you so I hope you are still ith me here!

Tip #7: Take *e3s3orthy Pictures an$ Chase that Story


.ith more people having cameras today, the big name ne s companies are often the last ones to get pictures and live coverage of a scene! %ven hen the terrorists hit 3umbai, it as " itter users that brought us live updates of hat as going on before the ne s even had a chance to get there! "his really makes the ne s agencies &ealous, but rather than fight us, they are no illing to pay really good money for ne s orthy photos, and they are not the only ones!

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In fact, there is a ebsite out there that ill absolutely re/olutioni8e the ay editorial pictures are sold, and it)s a site called *emoti(!com! .hat they do is accept all kinds of ne s photos and videos taken from any here in the orld, and then they pump them out to ne s organizations ho in turn buy them! *emoti( is currently paying out G:D of their profits to you and the pictures that sell ill often bring in a nice chunk of change! "his is from their ebsite: We're raising Street Journalists to professional rates (comparable and competitive with all the big, established news wires and photo agencies) because that's what your material is worth. n number terms, that means your non!e"clusive images will sell for anywhere between #$%& ! ',&&&( and your videos will sell for #%&&!$,&&& ) minute. *"clusives+ ,he s-y is the limit.. It)s an amazing concept! "his gives average, every day people the opportunity to be freelance photo &ournalists and make the same kind of money that the big names make! "his kind of business can pay very ell, especially if you live in a bustling city here lots of ne s is happening all the time! Selling pictures on *emoti( is great for those ho also don)t ant to be tied do n by appointments and schedules! Although it is a little more risky as you don)t kno hich pictures ill sell and hich ones on)t, it)s a great opportunity for the adventurous! 8ut if you are &ust starting in photography, I ould recommend trying to build up your base first and get some gigs going before freelancing alone! %ditorial images are also accepted on some micro stock photo sites! I have sold
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many of my ne s photos on ,rea'sti'e co' and this is nice because they are photos that I could not use other ise! Since stock photo companies ill not accept anything ith a logo or anything commercial in it, you ill have a choice to either blur or crop out those logos, or you can &ust submit it as an editorial image! Just make sure it has some editorial significance!

hat kind of photos are considered newsworthy? .ell you don)t have to capture an e(plosion or some horrible event for your photo to sell like crazy as an editorial image! Any picture that tells a story or documents an event can be useful! "hink about it from the buyers perspective! "he only ones ho ill be using these editorial images are magazines, ne spapers and other ne s outlets! So think about hy they ould ant to use your image, or hat it ould be useful for! And of course, if you *9 happen to catch a catastrophic moment you can make a ton of money! -ou can listen to police scanners and try to chase the ne s if you ant to, but it)s usually best if you &ust happen to be there at the time of the event! "ry not to get in the police officers ay if you do happen to be on a scene first! -ou may be able to get some pictures that the ne s cre ill miss hen they arrive if you do beat them to the scene! Shooting editorial images is still a fairly ne concept for average citizens, but it is a market that is busting at the seems right no and it also a lot of fun! I encourage you to check out the *emoti(!com ebsite and submit some editorial images to *reamstime!com to see if this is for you!
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Tip 9#: Shoot Aerial Photography for 2o'es An$ #usinesses


-ou may think that aerial photography is out of your reach, but if you have this mindset you are missing out on a multiHmillion dollar market that you can tap into yourself ith minimal investment! ,o matter ho you are, you can get started in the aerial photography business and make a fortune!

!ow "uch Can #ou "ake with $erial %hotography? I remember the first time I as introduced to the idea of aerial photography! I as in a friends home and I sa he had a picture of his house on the all! It as a beautiful aerial shot and I asked him here he got it! He said that 0: years ago a guy came to his door ith the aerial picture of his home and offered it to him framed as a /0(/M for @0::! He also has a smaller sized M(/: that he as selling for @/::, and my friend bought both of them! So right a ay I began to do the math in my head and it as spinning ith ideas! ,o not everyone ill ant a picture of their homes, but most ill think it)s a great idea and be more than illing Fin certain ealthy neighborhoods especiallyB to fork out a fe hundred dollars to get that shot that other ise they could never have! "he e(ample ith my friend as 0: years ago and my friend lived in an average middle class neighborhood!! -ou can probably charge much more than that no and hit an entire street at one time! %ven if 0:D of the people hose doors you knocked on ere interested you could make @/,::: from a single airplane flight! ,o it ould be best to already have one home o ner or business o ner
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signed up to pay you for the picture before you go up in the plane! And then you can take a fe e(tra pictures of surrounding houses hile you are at it and have greater potential for even more money! Any sales you get besides the one you ere contracted for is &ust bonus money!

&o I Need to 'ly to &o $erial %hotography? .hether you are a pilot already or you ant to pay a pilot to take you up in the air to get some aerial pictures, you need to check ith your local la s to make sure you don)t get into trouble! 8ut an airplane may not be the best ay to get the best aerial shots! 3ost planes are not supposed to go much belo /,::: feet and this is too high to do some good ;uality aerial photography, although still doable! It is best to ork bet een /:: and 0G: feet for most businesses and houses, unless the building is particularly large! #sually you can rent a pilot and plane for bet een @/:: and @/G: per hour! 9f course you ill have to pass this cost along ith your rates, but you can more than make up for it ith stunning pictures from the air!

Shoot Great $erial %hotos without a %lane ,o you don)t even need to go up into the air to get amazing aerial photos! Here are some ays you can get your camera in the perfect position ay up in the air to get the shots: <emote 6ontrol Ilanes <emote 6ontrol Helicopters 3ast Systems <emote 6ontrol 8limps

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"hese above methods are great because you can get pictures from much lo er flying levels and make sure you get the perfect shot every time! 8ut not all of these methods are created e;ual! <6 planes &ust move too fast and so it)s hard to get a picture that is not blurry! So many ill resort to using <6 helicopters as they are much more stable and can fly in place! "his usually re;uires t o people; one to fly the helicopter and another to operate the controls for the camera! "he only problem is that the gas <6 helicopters that are re;uired to lift the cameras have too much vibration and cause the images to be blurry more often than not! -ou could invest in a stabilizer of some sorts bu then there is also the problem of noise and people complaining, hich happens more often than you may think! "here are some situations here an <6 chopper ill ork &ust fine, but I find that the best systems are the high mast systems and small blimps! 3ost of the masts ill go to G: feet hich ill be good for most homes, but if you need some more lift you can get great stability ith a balloon system! "he camera stays very steady in a balloon system and all there is no noise at all! If you are interested in getting started ith aerial photography than I highly suggest you check out the ebsite over at http:77 !aerialproducts!com! "hey have &ust the systems you ill need for getting a balloon system or mast system! %ither ay it ill re;uire a little investing so make sure this is something you ant to do before you commit to it! A good idea ould be to intervie different home o ners and businesses in to n and see if that is the sort of thing they ould be interested in having done for them! 8ased on ho people respond to your ;uestions can determine hat the market is like in your area for aerial photography! I absolutely love aerial photography and it)s a fun, rela(ing ay to generate huge amounts of income in the right environments! It ould not be uncommon to
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make several thousand dollars every month so you ould be able to pay off that balloon or mast system in a short period of time! I hope this opened your eyes a little to the potential there is in all kinds of photography! In the ne(t tip e are going to look at ho you can make money from pictures you never even took! -ou on)t ant to miss our last part of the series on ho to make money ith your photography!

Tip #7: Make a Ton of ,ough 3ith .ther People4s Pictures


So for this tip you don)t even have to o n a camera to make money! I started doing this recently and it is a great ay to get some e(tra income on the side no matter hat kind of photography you are currently using to generate cash! I got this idea hen I as in someone)s home and sa some old pictures on a table! I noticed that these pictures ere fading and a lot of the color had already disappeared from them! In passing, I &ust mentioned to the lady of the house that I could try to restore some of the pictures for her and she as very interested! I did the first one for free, as I had never done this before! 8ut it as much easier than I thought! -ou don)t even have to be a photoshop guru to do this! All you need is a scanner and a basic photo editing program! "he %pson scanner that I have actually came ith some photo restore soft are that I did not even kno about, and this makes the &ob a little easier too! It)s amazing ho much detail you can get back ith some photo editing tools! I boosted the saturation on a fe of the shots since the color as very faded and I made a fe other simple changes that took /: minutes ma(imum! After giving the lady a print of the ne and improved picture, she as delighted!

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"he picture I had restored for her as the only picture she had of her father on her property, so it meant a great deal to her to bring back some of its former glory! Ieople ill pay big money for these photo restores because they are sentimental! -ou can)t replace those old memories! Any person ho has pictures dating back to the ':)s and before ill have faded photos that need to be restored, so it on)t be hard to find clients! %ven if you &ust charge /: bucks per photo and put all the pictures on a 6*, you can easily make @/:: to @0:: per hour! "he first picture I did took me ten minutes, but the second one I did only took me G! It really depends on ho much of the original picture)s detail as lost, but either ay, it can be a very profitable business for you! I ould even put an ad in the ne spaper letting people kno that you could restore their photos for them! Some people &ust don)t ant to hassle ith it, even though it)s very simple to do! I hope many of you ill at least try restoring some photos to see ho easy it is! *o some free &obs for some friends to get some e(perience and then you can sho your future clients the difference ith the before and after! .hat I like to do is offer to do the first photo for free so they can actually see the difference and ho much more detailed and colorful the ne ly restored picture is! ,othing ill sell your services like sho ing them ho great it is!

&n Conclusion
"here are many aspects of making money ith photography that I did not even have time to touch on! 9ne of the hottest markets right no is pet photography!
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9ne of the best resources for making money ith pet photography is a program called *e3 Photo #i8! "hey have everything from videos to tutorials and even some stock photos you can photoshop in ith pictures of pets, babies, and more! "he step by step photoshop guide videos sho you ho to do it all! And hat)s great is the Scott, the o ner of the program, is already a very successful pet photographer so he kno s the business and teaches you hat you need to kno ! I hope you en&oyed this ebook and that it at least gave you some ideas for using your camera as more than &ust a tool to capture memories! "urning your passion for photography into some solid income is one of the best decisions you can make to better your ;uality of life! Ilease feel free to pass this book on to as many of your friends as you ant! -ou can even print it out if you ould like! I only ask that you do not change any of it)s content! As the author, I ould like you to leave everything as is, and let anyone take a look at it! -ou can email it to them, or send them the link here they can find it! If you ould like to contact me about this book to discuss anything, you can email me at &onNcashcoach!net ! *isclaimer:
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