One of the many ways you can earn money as a photographer is to specialise on events. Sports, Charity Balls, Schools proms and all sorts of other events where people make memories can be worthwhile business. The best thing is that all you need is a good camera, lots of memory cards and some business cards at one end of the market or a potable studio and printer at the other. Oh and you need to be a good photographer as well, it does help.

Where to Take Photos

It’s critically important that you get creative on where to take photos. The best possible events are events where people want to keep the memories for a long time . Extra bonus points can be had if the event is the type of happening where people want extra high quality, or if you can offer something which means that the people couldn’t have taken the photos themselves.

People are making a health income off photographing sports events. Here in England, kids are dreaming of being the next Beckham or Best and their parents are often very encouraging of their sporting efforts. What the photographer does is that he calls up the team manager, ensures it is okay to take images at a football game. They then attend the game and takes images .

When the photographer pitchesup with a huge 400 mm lens – same as all the parents have seen on tele – they are taken seriously and they take great care in making sure they’ll get a couple of action shots of every kid on the field. At the end of the game, they hand out flyers (printed cheaply from an internet printing company.) Later in the evening, they’ll upload all the photos to an event photography website and sells the prints. The only costs incurred is the petrol for driving to the game and the flyers, which cost next to nothing.

At bigger tournaments, they can shoot 8-9 teams in a single day, hand out around 100 flyers and in the longer term sell around £300-500 worth of photos.

Using the same event photography model you can apply this to weddings.

You arrange to cover the wedding reportage-style and make sure that you snap everybody. People flirting with the bridesmaids and drinking along with all the ‘official’ photos you do. You can charge the set fee for photographing the wedding and in addition you can arrange for your website to be printed on the wedding invitation (offer the happy couple a 30% discount to get the website on the invitation and on any other paperwork they distribute, then make sure to mention to everyone you photograph that they can buy the photos on-line on the website on the invite).

It’s a profitable business and in addition you are offering a service most photographers don’t being the option of letting anybody get copies of the prints easily and conveniently.

The key point is to find a niche market where you can excel by being the best photographer in the room and offering an quick easy way for people to buy your photos. Horse shows, car shows, livestock competitions, rock shows, plays, festivals, portraiture – everywhere there is a market, you can try and do event photography.

Marketing the Images

You can get great success by having flyers printed – simple A5 flyers in full colour, with 2-3 of the best photos, and a URL . Mention who you are, mention how easy and cost effective it is to buy pictures from you and hand them out to anyone who might want to buy your pictures . If the event has a car-park, all the better: Stick a flyer under the window wiper of the cars.

If you can get a link-in as an ‘official photographer’, it’s worth setting up a booth at the event as well. Hire someone to sit there with a printer and a computer and print out the best photos there and then, allowing people to buy them, but make sure to have a stock of business cards or flyers as well, to allow people to buy the images at their leisure, at home, via the internet.

How to Sell the Pictures

The mechanics of selling photos can be quite complicated. Back when many started doing concert photography, they decided to have a go at doing it all themselves – and Rockprints is a testament to that (incidentally, Rockprints was designed by the same guy who did the current Photocritic design – Martin Jacobsen). Most ended up using commonly available gallery software called Coppermine and hacked the hell out of it so they could use it to sell photographs via on line print web sites.

A lot of things have happened since then those days. New ways of working have improved the work flow for the event photographer.

There are quite a few specialised sites out there, who help you out by providing ways of selling pictures .

Luckily, there are plenty of solutions out there to choose from so you find one that suits you best. Photo Stock Plus offer a ‘events-photography-in-a-box’ solution, which works very well.

The company takes a fee up-front each year. For your money, you typically get a 500MB printing account, which can store up to say 10,000 images. All you need to do is to use the uploading tool (which also watermarks and resizes your photos for you, saving you a metric tonne of time) to create events galleries, and you’re up and running.

A Final Word of Warning

Event photography is damn hard work. No, seriously. You’ll be constantly on your toes , trying to get the best images, fielding questions from people around you, handing out flyers, travelling to locations, copying images, preparing galleries, etc. You’ll hate it until you’ve managed to get used to the pace of the work and managed to work out a good workflow.

On the other hand, there is a lot of money to be made if you are happy to put in the hours.

Many event photographers make serious money doing events photography.

Most of the event photographers have a similar setup to this whenever they do weddings, to maximise their income.

With an uncertain housing market in Orange County, it is often in the financial interests of a lender to accept a negotiated settlement rather than incur the costs of a prolonged foreclosure process. And if a lender does repossess a property, they could continue to incur costs for months in order to maintain the property while they try and sell it. A Rancho Santa Margarita short sale is a practical and cost saving alternative for all parties involved. A Rancho Santa Margarita short sale agent can guide homeowners facing difficulties making their mortgage payment.

You must remember, we’ve all had our ups and downs in life and a lot of other good people are also in the same tough spot as you. Life seems scary when you’re facing the reality of foreclosure and we know how you feel when you just don’t want answer the phone any more. Here in Orange County, many home owners have found themselves in a position where they are having trouble keeping up with their payments and the mortgage on their home is greater than the value of their home. Unfortunately, many Rancho Santa Margarita homeowners give up because they think there is nothing they can do to stop the Foreclosure of the home. But there is something that can be done, a Short Sale. Rancho Santa Margarita short sale realtors can help relieve financial stress.

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South Africa is one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and it is sought after by many international visitors. With the World Cup in 2010 we expect many more to explore the adventure that Africa has to offer.

So why is it then that so many people visit our country? I think it is mainly because we have a vast amount of extremely beautiful sceneries to enjoy. From the very popular Table Mountain and Waterfront in Cape Town up the Coast Line to the popular Garden Route where you can watch the whales as they swim close to the shore in Plettenberg Bay. Then look for luxury Western Cape Accommodation and relax.

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When selling an antique car, most times someone near to where you live will offer to purchase your car. But many times you’ll get interest from someone in another state seeking to buy it.

In situations like these, if they are not traveling to your state with the intention of driving it back themselves, you will have to make arrangements for transporting it to them. It’s not that unusual as almost every day, thousands of cars are transported across the country – most of them from auto manufacturers to dealers. With the level of classic car pricing, however, you have to take special measures.

Much of this transportation is done by companies who specialize in this area. Within some of these companies, however, exists a subdivision which specializes in the transportation of antique cars. These are the companies that you’ll want to consider for transferring your car to its new owner.

Companies who transport classic autos will most likely employ drivers who are experts in handling these types of cars.

For instance, generally if a nick or scratch gets on an automobile during the course of transportation it’s not that big of a deal. The dealership will do a bit of touch-up to it, and send the car on its way.

In the case of an antique car, however, in which the buyer has probably paid a premium price, the expectation is that it is arriving in pristine condition. Drivers who specialize in dealing with antique cars are well aware of this and will have special procedures in place to ensure that the car arrives at it’s destination in the same condition that it was in when it left the seller.

Sometimes the buyer is in another country altogether. In this case, some of the transportation companies will still be able to take care of your request and even ship overseas, if necessary.

Before trusting your valuable antique car to any of these companies, however, it’s best to do a full research profile on them before giving them the go ahead.

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