How to Market and Sell Event Photographs

 

There are several ways to market your services. One of the easiest and cheapest ways to get the word out is by distributing flyers in full color with a few of your best photos covering a range of events and calling cards. Include details of the services you offer, your contact details and the address of your online portfolio for prospective clients to view the other samples of your work. Also include information that your images can be purchased online as stock photographs. 

Another easy and cost effective way to advertise your services is through social networking. By tapping into popular social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, you can share updates and sample photos to a large number of people all at once. 

Selling your images is not as complicated as it seems. It’s a matter of knowing what your options are. Aside from the most obvious, which is being hired to take photographs for various functions and events, selling on-site prints at different events is one of the simplest ways to make extra money. Yet it holds the biggest potential and possibility since the advent of the world wide web, stock photography. 

As much as possible, establish yourself as an official photographer for an event and set up a booth with an assistant with tools such as a computer and printer to enable you to print out on-site photographs to allow other spectators and attendees to purchase your prints. Always make sure you give out calling cards and flyers to anyone that shows interest and could be a prospective client. 

There are literally a lot of online sites to choose from where you can upload your stock images and you’ll be amazed with just how much income an image can generate. It’s a lot easier nowadays, you don’t need special software to upload and sell images and you have the flexibility to choose just how flexible your copyright agreement with the various sites can be. Our site, PhotoStockPlus, specializes in events photography which makes it really easy and straightforward for both the photographer and the buyer.

 

PhotoStockPlus has an annual membership fee with lots of options to choose from on what type of membership you’d like to have. Usually this would include a 500MB printing account that can easily store about 10,000 images. We give periodic webinars that offer you tutorials on a range of topics that help you maximize the use of the site among other things. Aside from this, there’s a watermark tool that will identify your images as your own. It also offers continuous helpful weekly tips and tutorials related to the trade that will enhance your skills. 

Being an event photographer is not easy. But it offers you flexibility in your time, you’re your own boss, and you get to do what you love the most. There is so much potential in earning from photographing events, there is practically an event happening everyday. As long as you work hard, keep developing your skills, knowing what your clients want, and always do quality work. With all this, you can never go wrong.

 


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What to Prepare on Your First Wedding Photo Shoot

 

Wedding photography is a lucrative business and you might have felt it is time to be in on the action. In shooting weddings, the photographer has a huge responsibility to make sure all the special moments are recorded. Since it’s your first time to shoot a wedding event, there could be butterflies in your stomach and stress as well, as excitement might start to mount up. You might start to think you’re more nervous than the bride to be as the wedding date looms closer. There’s one thing that can lessen those jitters and that is knowing that you’re prepared.

Make a shot list– you can take dozens of various photos of the whole event but there are some that you just must take. Photos of the wedding cake, the bride and groom at the altar, the wedding dance and so on are just a few of the ‘must shoot’ subjects. Also ask the bride and groom what or who they want you to include in a photo since there could be special people you might not know about and might overlook when taking photos.

Bring an assistant if you can – someone who can help carry your equipment for you and do some crowd control will make it easier for you to concentrate on getting the shots. Not only that, the assistant could be your friend or relative who will provide moral support, even indirectly, just by being with you. Better yet, bring someone who can also take photographs. There could be a big gathering of people in a large area and having another photographer in a strategic location means you don’t have to cover the entire area and event yourself.

Bring extras of your camera gear – extra batteries, extra memory cards, especially an extra camera. It’s always good to have extra gear since you never know when one of them could suddenly stop working. It would be a disaster to have your camera conk out and not have a back up right in the middle of the ceremony. If you don’t have extras, rent the equipment or borrow them since this is one time when it is essential to be prepared.

Check out the site beforehand – it is best to be at the location at the same time of day that the wedding will happen so you have a good idea of what settings you’ll be using. Scout the ideal locations for group shots and also check out the light conditions.

Be discreet – in wanting to get great shots, it is possible to forget that there is a ceremony going on and people can become bothered by you constantly moving around. One way to lessen being disruptive is to take shots less often and to time your picture taking during sermons and hymns Also make sure your camera doesn’t make sounds such as beeps since this can be distracting for others.

Be aware of your surroundings – you might find yourself in the middle of a crowd during the reception and could bump into people holding wine glasses or that delicate tall ornament that you didn’t notice since you were too busy looking through the lens.

This list is by no means finished since there are dozens more tips to help you prepare for shooting the big event. Stay tuned for more tips in forthcoming articles!


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