5 Ways to Earn Money With Photography This Week

Times are tough for many people around the world during this recession but here are some ways you can fight back and make some money with your photography.  If you love to take pictures with your digital camera, you might as well earn some extra cash with it as well.

Here are 5 ways you can earn money with photography, and you can get started right away: 

1. Find an art show near you and make enlargements of some of the very best pictures you have.  Start with a few 8x10's and make enlargements up to around 16x20.  After doing a few of these arts and craft shows you will know which of your images sell the most and be able to make more of those prints.  You can easily make $500 from just one show, but you do have a fee to pay for entering so take that into account too. 
2. Sell your pictures online.  There are many different websites that allow you to do this, but read the fine print first.  You do not want to give away the rights to the images because then you will not be able to sell them over and over again and at those art shows.  I am able to make a few hundred dollars a month just from a few of these sites and not very many pictures on them.
3. Take pictures for real estate agents.  Even though not many houses are selling right now, real estate agents are desperate to get rid of these houses and having good quality images of the houses can be a big selling point in getting good leads.  Because of this they are more than willing to hire you for a few jobs.  Or you can find listings in the paper or online that have no picture and you can contact the seller to see if you can take some pictures for them to use.
4. Help out the newspaper company.  Ever tried your hand at freelancing?  Your newspaper company will pay you for taking newsworthy photos.  Caught a some local news on your digital camera?  Bring it down to their offices and work out a deal.  If they like you work you might even get a part time position with them.
5. Put some of your photography in the local art's council.  Most towns have an art council building where you can join to display your work.  This helps not only because you are getting more publicity but you can also sell the very pictures that hang in their building.