Shooting & Selling Your Photos: The Complete Guide to Making Money with Your Photography

by Jim Zuckerman

Turn your love of photography into a money-making business! Get all the information you need to successfully shoot, sell, and market your photos. Inside, world-renowned photographer Jim Zuckerman provides an exciting combination of authoritative, straightforward instruction and beautiful show-and-tell photography.

Zuckerman's methods are comprehensive and easy to put into action. First, you'll learn how to create the highest quality photos:


Evaluate your photography, then take 5 easy steps to improve it
Pick powerful, interesting, and vivid subjects
Use dramatic lighting and high-quality backgrounds
Juxtapose colorful subjects for maximum impact
Choose the best format for your work–film vs. digital
Then you'll master the secrets of business success:
Find subjects and themes that sell
Create inexpensive, yet striking, print and online portfolios
Establish yourself on the internet through websites and online promotions
Execute dynamic advertising, direct mail and publicity campaigns
Get noticed with creative, professional submissions
Put together a portfolio that showcases you strengths–fine art, wildlife, advertising, magazine, or stock photography
But that's not all! Zuckerman also shows you how to sell your work at art shows, join a stock photography agency, prepare winning submissions–even self-publish your work and develop a product line.Turn your dream into reality and start making money today–Jim Zuckerman shows you how to make it happen!

Genres: Photography, Nonfiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published October 8, 2003

Reviews

[Darren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really informational I thought. Good direction on considering your talents, finding the right markets and how to make a professional image of yourself for potential buyers.

Also good on tips for making and staying current with contacts and how to go about promoting your work on the internet.

[Claire · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would've rated it higher if it were more recent.