Learn to earn income with photography without using the camera

Content

1. Photo editing

2. Create your own store for digital products or physical products

3. Stock photography

4. Being a photography teacher

5. Be assistants to professional photographers

6. Photographic equipment rental

If you are a beginner in the field of photography, you have knowledge in this field, you like it, and you want to start generating income, but you still do not have your own professional camera, then you should continue reading.

In case you are already a superpro photographer and want to generate additional income without having to be doing photo sessions, you should also continue reading.

Photo editing

This has a large market, so if you are one of those who likes to retouch skins, landscapes, colorize, in short, the whole subject of photographic editing. You should know that you can get very good income with this.

You may be wondering who your target customers might be. First, other photographers. If you have friends who do not have a very good editing, you can propose to edit some photos.

In this way, you will begin to create an editing portfolio that you will be able to display. Obviously with your photographs as well, but it goes beyond just working with photographers.

For example, makeup artists and people who work with makeup, also often upload a lot of photographic content to show their work.

There are also many brands to which you can offer your editing services, so that they can start managing a color palette on Instagram and you can propose to do the editing of their profiles.

Another target audience for this type of work are personalities such as actors, influencers and anyone who needs to upload constant content to their social networks, you can offer them your editing services.

Create your own store for digital products or physical products

What you can start selling are your presets. If you make your presets for lightroom you can take advantage of it and that is where the business is.

"Presets are presets that we put on our photos when we edit them in some raw file editing software."

Other things that you can sell are Photoshop actions, which is this set of steps that we used to make some kind of super powerful and perfect editing that you can sell.

You can sell color editing looks on video, you can sell photography guides, books, and many digital products that you can sell that are well-received by many photographers.

If you don't want to sell digital products, there is also the option of selling physical products. You can sell t-shirts with your own photos or merchandise that has your photos printed on it.

For this, it is recommended that you have your own virtual store and there are many platforms where you will be able to put many products. But they are not recommended because it is not the best option.

Each platform will charge you different commissions that they have to generate, and your profit will not be reflected in as lucrative a way as you would like.

Therefore, it is best to make your own website. You can turn to zyro, which is a super intuitive and professional platform that is incredibly fast and easy to use, so you can create your own website where you can set up your own virtual store.

Stock photography

This is that you can upload your images to platforms where those photos are sold all over the world.

The advantages are that you will be able to sell the same photo any number of times, and although the value of the photo is not very high, if you add it up and accumulate it monthly you will be able to have a very good income.

Then you will simply only be able to use all the photos that you already have or to be able to generate photographs designed for stock. You can also generate monthly income that will not depend on your work, but on the work of the platform.

Obviously they have their quality requirements, and if you meet them, you will be successful on this type of platform.

For example, if a Chinese advertising company needs photos from Colombia, instead of hiring a photographer in Colombia to take the photos for them. They just go to the stock platform and search for photos of landscapes in Colombia.

So, if you have these types of photos, they will be able to easily buy them for you, and then you will be able to see your photos published in advertisements in China.

Being a photography teacher

If you like teaching a lot, you communicate well, you get on well, you don't feel sorry for it, you like to share what you know, and you know a lot about photography, then teach people who don't know and generate additional income from your work as a photographer.

You will also be able to do online courses, or you can also do face-to-face or virtual classes with many people. This can give you such a good income, that if you do it well, you will be able to generate even more income than doing photo shoots.

So if you like it, think about it, get ready, and start teaching others about photography.

Be assistants to professional photographers

This way of generating income is more intended for those who are starting in the world of photography. This has many advantages, not only that you will start to develop in the professional world of photography, you will also be able to learn from other photographers much more PRO and you will begin to generate income.

Many well-known professional photographers, in their photography apprenticeship days, went through several more experienced photographers who they attended and learned a great deal.

They learned how to manage teams, how to manage photo sessions and much more. Besides that you will be able to start generating new clients.

Perhaps the photographer you are attending does not have the time for a photoshoot, but they trust you a lot and will be able to tell you to go do that photoshoot. That will allow you to start entering the professional market.

This is something with many benefits, since you can start to learn a lot, and you will start generating good income as an assistant.

Photographic equipment rental

In case you have a lot of photographic equipment, and you have it stored, you can take advantage of it by renting it to people who will work on it, and thus you can generate income.

If you have additional cameras, lenses, lights, you can rent it to those who do not have this equipment, since they may need it to make productions and photo shoots, among other things.