How can I make money with photography?

So you've just gotten the hang of photography, and you've decided you want to start makinga bit of extra cash from it. Well here are a few ideas to get you thinking.

Full Time options:

1. Wedding Photography.

Brides will pay a lot of money for the perfect photographer for them, so make sure you get a decent port folio together, and then start promoting your new business.

2. Photography Jobs

Many employers looking for photographers are not looking for qualifications, or in some cases even experience. If you think  you've got a strong enough portfolio, ring up and ask for an interview, eve if it's unpaid at first, you never know what that could lead to...

Part Time options.

1. Stock Photography

Search sell stock photos online

2. Studio shoots

Charge clients to come into your studio, and you supply them with a selection of prints.

3. Sell, Print & Sell.

Print some of your best work, frame them nicely and try to sell them at car boots, craft fairs, online, in the local paper or anywhere else you can think of.

4. Sell your photos to The Sun.

Many big name newspapers will pay big bucks for that shot of David Beckham picking his nose, maybe this is a route you'd like to take.

5. Teach.

Many people would love to learn photography, if your an expert why not teach one-to-one and charge per hour, or even run a class of up to 15 people.


Here are just a few ideas to get you going.

5 Photography things it's ok to buy cheaper

1. Lens cleaning kit. (A lens cleaning kit is  lens cleaning kit)
2. USB Cables, hubs and other USB peripherals
3. Gorilla pod & Clones (The cheaper clones of these are fine)
4. Remote triggers
5. UV Filters (Only UV)

Photoshop CS5 - Skin smoothing - How to smooth a models skin.

In this tutorial I will show you how to achieve that magazine-finish skin every time, in a few simple steps.

Here is the picture I am working with

Step 1 is to crop the image to the correct size, as I've done below.

Step 2: Create a new layer and label it "Skin"

Step 3: Using your EyeDrop tool found in the colour palette, select a colour from the models skin

Once you've done this you'll need to draw on a very crude mask of the particular colour. I KNOW it looks dodgy at this stage, but bear with me. 

THE NEXT STEP:

Is add a Noise filter of about 12 radius, I don't have a screenshot but the filter can be found here. 

Filters > Noise > Add noise

No we need to blur our skin by going to Filter > Blur > Guassian Blur

Blur this from between 20 and 25 pixels.

Once you've done that all you need to do, is to bring the opacity of this layer down to around 20 %

Here's the before and after!!

All I did here was a basic crop, a basic skin smooth, and a few levels and curves tweaks!

Photoshop tutorial | Photojoiner

Photojoiner is a technique first performed by David Hockney.

Here's how I made the picture below.

1. Open your picture you want to use, and a new blank A4 document.

2. Select a random part of the picture and copy it

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3. The paste this into your new document.

4. Repeat this step several times until you have the desired effect. Here's mine.

Top ten must have accessories | Wildlife/landscape photography.

Top 10 must have camera accessories for landscape/wildlife photographers

1. Tripod

2. Lens

3. UV Filter

4. Zoom lens

5. Spare batteries

6. Spare Memory cards

7. Binoculars 

8. Stool/sheet to sit on

9. Bottle of water

10. Mobile phone

Night time photography

To achieve these effects I did the following simple steps.

- Placed camera on tripod and pointed at the moon.

- Set the shutter speed to 4 seconds with an aperture of F5.6

- Flash ON

- Took the photograph.

- Enhanced it in photoshop using only levels.

and here's the finished result!!