5 Tips For Selling Images Directly To Clients
As a freelance photographer, I’ve been selling images directly to clients for 7 years now. Selling photos this way (also called direct licensing) essentially lets me be my own stock agency. I have much more control over my fees and how my photos are used. And I don’t...
Going After Commercial Photography Markets Can Be Especially Lucrative
After finishing my medical degree, I wanted to learn something new. So, 12 years ago I picked up a camera to take photos of my roommate and her fiancé for their engagement. When I saw her happy response to the photos, I spent the next few years really learning my...
Photobooth Photography Is Fun And Easy To Set Up…
In college I spent a semester studying abroad in London, and as a gift, my parents bought me a point-and-shoot camera. It was small enough to fit in any bag and light enough for me not to make excuses about carrying it wherever I went. From that point on, my camera...
A New Approach That’s Helping Me Sell Travel Images
My favorite way to make money from photography is through what I call PhotoArt. It’s the term I came up with for selling my photos as artwork. I love selling small-scale prints and cards in local galleries and fairs and markets. Mostly, I sell local images. It’s fun,...
15 Places To Sell Your Photos (Including Some Surprises)
I read an article that said that, right now, we take more photos every two minutes than all the photos in existence 150 years ago. And it got me thinking… Sure, we’re taking more photos than ever before. After all, we all carry a camera with us all day long in the...