It might not be everyone’s goal but just about anyone who has ever sold an image will have considered it at least briefly. Once you discover that your camera can be a cash machine, the thought of trading in the nine-to-five for days of profes ...

The advantage of the digital age is that anyone with talent can now market themselves as a photographer. The disadvantage is that with so many photographers to choose from, buyers and clients have to make some difficult decisions. When they’r ...

iStockPhoto The idea was simple, horrible, successful and completely revolutionary. To inject some competition into a stock photography market now dominated by one big company was no bad thing. But to do it by making the images royalty-fre ...

Choose a career in movies and everyone will tell you that your first years will be spent waiting tables. Set your sights on medicine and you know you’ll have to spend four years in undergraduate digs, and several more sweating through medical ...

Almost every bride has that one thing that they will consider the most important part of their wedding day, and will usually spend the most amount of money on it. Remember that once the cake is cut, the guests are gone, and the dress is clean ...

Making your first sale is a big step. The second, third and fourth sales feel much easier and once they’re coming in regularly, you can soon find yourself wondering whether you shouldn’t be selling images for a living. Surely it would just ...

"One of the most impressive things about professional photography is the range of people who take it up. From teenagers skipping college and shooting bands between trips to exotic locations, to former surf fans who have found a way to turn a ...

The advent of high quality and inexpensive digital cameras has made it easier than ever to learn the basics of photography. The immediate feedback you get by being able to preview your images (via the LCD screen) in relationship to your expos ...

We’re spoiled for choice these days and that’s no good thing. If you want to create a website to promote your photography, you can take your pick of templates, tools and portfolio sites. If you want to learn how to shoot better pictures, you c ...

Award-winning video creation platform now provides professional photographers with tools to produce and market professional-quality videos New York, NY, October 22, 2008 - Animoto (http://animoto.com), the video creation platform that lets users ...

The image that came straight out of your camera is probably not good enough to be sold Since the advent of photography, photographers have toiled over their images after the image was taken. In the film days, this meant hours in the darkroom ...

"Understanding image histograms is probably the single most important concept to become familiar with when working with pictures from a digital camera. A histogram ca ...

Develop diving skills. "For photography the most important skill is buoyancy control -- the ability to hold yourself in a stable position in the water," Snyder says. Most underwater photography is close-up work, and adjusting focus may mean m ...

Hoping to make some money to pay for a new camera or a bigger lens? Anyone can earn money from there photography hobby. Below is a list of events that you can shoot (it is often as easy as picking up the phone) and make some money to support ...

Getting accepted into stock collections can be daunting and many professional photographers are rejected from stock collections regularly. Stock can be a difficult area to break into, so we’ve compiled some secrets to help you get started in ...