Make Money With Your Digital Camera

A simple home based portrait studio can be started for little money and could be your ticket to living a lifestyle most people only dream about! Think about it. What other business can be started for such a low investment in tools (camera, lights, background and props) and produce almost instant profits of $500 to $1,000 per day?

A thousand dollars per weekend is not very difficult to achieve if you know how to drum up business and many portrait photographers earn over $1,000 per day working part time hours.

Amateur photographers often consistently produce images far superior to the department store portrait studios but feel they can't compete on price or afford to advertise for business.

If you want to make your living as a self-employed portrait photographer all you need to get started making money is a 35mm film or digital camera and one good strobe light. You could set up a portable portrait studio on location in the comfort of your own living room or that of your customers and because you won't have the high overhead expenses of most of your competitors you can offer your clients fair prices and still make a really good part time or full time income.

Here is what most professional photographers do to get business. They print up and distribute their business cards and brochures. They put up portrait displays in shopping malls and restaurants.

They advertise in the yellow pages and local newspapers. They sponsor photo contests and they do direct mail. They hold portrait parties and canvass public and private schools, dance studios, pre-school day care centers and they offer to do portrait fundraisers for clubs, churches and other non profit organizations. They put up websites to showcase their best images. They send out a monthly newsletter to anyone who has expressed an interest in their business and they attend seminars and workshops to better their skills every chance they get.

Great photographers like many great artists often fail in business because they fail to drum up clients. They know how to capture beautiful expressions and create very artistic prints but they do not know how to market a photography business. They love photography; they practice their craft and sharpen their picture taking skills but neglect to fall in love with learning how to effectively market their photographic skills.

Many good photographers end up working as department store baby photographers who just keep clicking away working for peanuts while dreaming of a better lifestyle. All a photographer really needs to live his or hers dream and enjoy a better lifestyle earning full time pay working part time hours is to invest in some tools of the trade and learn how to inexpensively market and sell their home based photo studio.

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Here's a very profitable, little-known, simple and in demand photography service specializing in taking photographs of accident scenes and injuries of victims for personal injury attorneys and insurance companies.

All necessary equipment can be stored in one camera bag that you carry which you at all times. You will need a 35mm film or digital camera with wide angle and zoom lenses, a good flash unit, a 12 inch ruler to be held next to body bruises to gain a perspective of the size and scope of injuries. And a 150 ft. tape measure to document skid marks along with a police scanner and mobile phone.

When you happen onto an accident scene or your police scanner announces an accident call; you go and take photos of everything at the scene. You then give the police and each party involved a card that states: “Photographs of your accident scene have been taken by a professional photographer and expert witness (your name and number). Your attorney or insurance company can obtain a CD of the images and prints of all photographs for $___ by referring to file#_____.”

Direct Mail letters printed onto your professional letterhead and sent to all the attorneys in your area along with a small three line classified ad in the legal column of your local newspaper can get you up and running very quickly. And once you are established referrals from one lawyer to another can keep you busy for years to come. In addition to charging for your photographic documentations you will also be able to bill attorneys $350 per hour for you to appear in court as an Expert Witness!

Copyrighted 2006 by Steve Shulenski