In the photography classes that I take and in my various travel experiences meeting strangers who are always intrigued by a photographer and their lives, I often get asked how to make money from photography. Waiting for someone to approach you for an assignment or to buy something you have clicked would mean waiting for long intervals at times. So, how does one earn and continue to fund this delightful profession? Well, there are many ways. Let me share fifteen such with you!

Stock photography

Shutterstock

Shutterstock is a leading photographic trading market place over 15 years old, a very popular online site to buy photos. They have a collection of 200 million images, videos, and music tracks with royalty-free purchasing that makes a huge number of customers.

Adobe Stock

Adobe Stock (formerly Fotolia) is a market place to stock photos by most popular photo editing software companies like lightroom and Photoshop. It is considered to be the very first site to sell photographs online. The share of royalty is also higher than any other online store.

Dreamstime

Dreamstime offers reliable and genuine HQ digital photos at affordable prices. It’s a royalty-free stock photography site from 2000. It is one of the best photography leaders in the world.
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Creative Market

Creative Market is a handcrafted digital market place to sell simple and accessible designs for everyone. They offer photos, graphics, themes, 3d models, fonts, add on, website themes, templates.

BigStockPhoto

BigStockPhoto is an international royalty-free microstock photographic website. It is the most reliable seller of the online photo market. They typically sell images via a credit-based system. They have a vast collection of photos, vectors, and illustrations.

Make money through Facebook

Create a discussion group

Make a photographic group or page on Facebook and carry on discussing your preferred genre of photography. Keep uploading your best images. Create an engaged community base.
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Create competition

Create a photography competition and gather more followers. Sell photographs to enthusiast buyers.

Make money through Instagram/Pinterest

Grow your followers

Making money on Instagram/Pinterest through photography is based on the growth of engaged followers. Make a proper profile and set a good image that looks professional. Use a simple effective logo. Put on a catchy description. Stick to a particular genre of photography that makes an identity of you. Post most stunning and relish pictures consistently, don’t overdo posting that may annoy your followers. Use hashtags and geotags.

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Sell Pictures

There are many renowned market places and hosting sites that offer photographers to gain good money through licensing and making a partnership with big brands.

• Offer limited-time free services to grow your follower
• Offer premium services
• Quiz
• Interaction with followers

Teach Photography

Teaching photography is a great thing to make money. You can have basic digital online classes via your website. Make a detailed video course and charge a better amount to buyers. Conduct with your followers via social media and also you can have an affiliate marketing plan for your students. Privet lessons are also good. Bisakha Datta is indeed a good teacher to help you solve all your photography queries.

Sell Art Photography

The initial stage is to get hold of a reliable printing source and gradually create an offline marketplace platform or create an online blog of your own. Display your art prints, set the price, promote your initiative and start earning gradually.  Get some unique ideas here.

Affiliate marketing

In Instagram or any other marketplace, influencer photographers are more focused on making sales. Adding a tracked link in your bio section on Instagram or in the caption of each post can make an affiliate marketing strategy.

Create your own stock website

Creating a stock photography site is a golden opportunity for photographers with a new way to make money online. It is very useful for marketers, entrepreneurs, designers, etc. Stumbling with the procedure of making a stock website? Visit an expert at ambertimes.com to get authentic advice.

Create your own gallery to showcase

Flickr.com

Flickr.com is an online free photo hosting and sharing site that offers you to make unlimited sharing of your photos and exploring other images without paying a single coin. It has a very active and engaged community. The website offers your a gallery to showcase with rich and advanced features.

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500px.com

500 p-x is a Toronto; Canada based photo hosting and sharing service site. It is owned by China. It’s an international online platform for photographers to get global exposure. It also offers to gain money via licensing and brand partnerships.
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Sell T-Shirt with your unique photography

Selling T-Shirts with unique photography is a pretty cool idea of money-making. Selling a designed T-Shirt online is a big gateway into the larger e-commerce market or in the world of fashion.

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Write a book and sell

Write a book on photography and sell it. If anyone gets difficulties related to publishing they can self publish a book in e-book format that also yields money. Get a mentor and coach in here.

Create a blog to share your photography experience

How to create your blog? – Probably blogging is the best part of digital marketing. To make money with photography one must write blogs in their sites.
How to create a site using WordPress? – Creating a site requires knowledge of web development and designing using WordPress. There is a better way to visit an expert at https://bisakhadatta.com/. She will provide a great deal in creating your website as per your request.

Create a YouTube channel

For creating an effective YouTube channel that will gain vast popularity in the least time concerning photography and designs, contact the website of Bisakha Datta at bisakhadatta.com.

Workshop on photography

Photography workshop is a place where anyone who has a keen willingness to learn photography can gather much knowledge and experience in a few hours. In a workshop, arranged by many famous photographers, you get something that is priceless. For making career photography one must go through some photography workshops. There are many workshops available in the market.

One can visit Bisakha Datta’s website at bisakhadatta.com and participate in the workshops for beginner and aspiring photographers conducted at regular intervals.

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Overall, we can say photography is an excellent profession to continue. We can find the subjects easily and also the conditions are flexible. So, give a try, maybe this is the thing you need to start your photographic journey.