Jordan Eskovitz on Nostr: Consider finding photography communities and entering your work into contests. Even ...
Consider finding photography communities and entering your work into contests. Even if you don't think your stuff is *good enough* it gets you familiar with the process and motivates you to keep improving.
You can try selling some of your work through stock sites and/or make limited high quality prints that you can try selling through various channels—art fairs, Nostr, etc.
Find other successful nature photographers and see if there is anything you can glean from them as far as how they monitize their work.
This is all stuff you can do for street photography as well.
I have more experience with portraits. Much easier to monetize. You can offer senior photos, family photos, or professional headshots to people in your network first and expand out from there. A lot of my early business was just word of mouth and people knowing I am a photographer.
The portraiture options I listed above are all a bit different and come with their own challenges (family photos in particular are tricky when there are young children and pets included) so it is wise to tackle one and get good at it before expanding.
Something important to cultivate with portraiture too is interpersonal skills in the form of calm direction of models, good bedside manner, and being courteous of people's time, insecurities, intentions for the photos, etc.
One last note. An idea a friend of mine implemented was to let people know that he is available on certain days at certain times in a fixed location for headshots. If someone in his network would like one they can book 20-30 minutes. Good way to keep the variables fixed and have people *come to you* so to speak.
Hope this is helpful! You're welcome to DM me if you want to chat further.
You can try selling some of your work through stock sites and/or make limited high quality prints that you can try selling through various channels—art fairs, Nostr, etc.
Find other successful nature photographers and see if there is anything you can glean from them as far as how they monitize their work.
This is all stuff you can do for street photography as well.
I have more experience with portraits. Much easier to monetize. You can offer senior photos, family photos, or professional headshots to people in your network first and expand out from there. A lot of my early business was just word of mouth and people knowing I am a photographer.
The portraiture options I listed above are all a bit different and come with their own challenges (family photos in particular are tricky when there are young children and pets included) so it is wise to tackle one and get good at it before expanding.
Something important to cultivate with portraiture too is interpersonal skills in the form of calm direction of models, good bedside manner, and being courteous of people's time, insecurities, intentions for the photos, etc.
One last note. An idea a friend of mine implemented was to let people know that he is available on certain days at certain times in a fixed location for headshots. If someone in his network would like one they can book 20-30 minutes. Good way to keep the variables fixed and have people *come to you* so to speak.
Hope this is helpful! You're welcome to DM me if you want to chat further.