A Smart-Phone Photography Cash-Cow

Copyright – P. Moring © 2014

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The Cash-Cow In Your Pocket:

Ok, most of us have one and we seldom go anywhere without it, it even goes with us into the toilet and sits by our bedside at night within arms reach
(just in case) ,,,,,, Our mobile phone is like an extension of our own personality, everything goes on there, gets done on there, and gets saved on there. If that phone goes missing or gets broken in some way, we’re likely to have a mini-meltdown ,,,,, Correct?

So ,,,,, If our mobile phone is Soooo valuable to us, why wouldn’t we decide to make it pay it’s way in the form of a regular cash income? And believe it or not, it’s so easy to do and to set up that you’ll literally kick yourself for not thinking about it sooner. But don’t worry, you’ve got this handy little E-book that will tell you exactly ‘how’ you can do just that utilizing your camera on your mobile phone.

For instance; you must realise just how many blogs, websites, social media accounts like Facebook etc are set up every day for both business and personal use. There are literally hundreds of thousands every day, and that’s without the Millions of Blog-Posts that get written and published daily. And this is where ‘You’ come in.

You see, ‘You’ have something that ALL of these people need and want. Something that most are more than willing to PAY you for in hard cash into your Bank account. You have photographic images that aren’t already the property of some large photographic agency like ‘Getty Images’ for example, where they have to pay serious money to be able to use those photo’s and then on top of that, there are usually too many ‘conditions of use’ tagged along with their purchase.

Now while you might think no-one but you would be at all interested in your images, you’d be seriously ‘wrong’! Your images are exactly what people want. They’re fresh to the market, your buyers can crop out the bits they want to use, and they can play around and use them in whatever way they wish. Your photo’s are a Webmaster or Bloggers dream come true, and YES! They are quite happy to pay you for your pic’s that will otherwise just sit on your phone or computer, maybe Facebook or Instagram etc too, but either way, those photo’s aren’t earning you any money at all, when they could be producing a residual income for you ,,,,,,, for years to come 🙂

How To Milk That Cash-Cow In Your Pocket:

Firstly; you might want to set up an account with one of the many online photographic agencies if you want to do this in the ‘hands-off’ way. In other words if you just want to take the photographs, load them up onto the website of whichever agency you choose, then sit back and wait for people to see your images and then click-to-buy, that’s the best and easiest option.

You’ve doubtless heard of www.istockphoto.com who are probably the most prominent agency on the net today. There are many others of course, and all you’ll need to do is ‘Google’ the term “Sell Photos Online” and you’ll be faced with as many choices as you can handle. Most are Free to join and all will complete the transactions on your behalf, giving you your commission cheque each month, or paid directly into your Paypal or Bank account at your request (If you’ve earned the minimum requirement of course)

On the other hand, you could set your own website up, choose an ‘Agency’ theme to go with, and set your very own terms and conditions, then you just have to upload your images and – ‘Promote the Bejeezus out of it’ 😉

Get your domain from GoDaddy.com, Your hosting from Hostgator.com and you’re ready to get your WordPress site (included in the Hostgator package) up and running, all for less than $15- usually.
If you’re not sure how you’d go about this, your old friend Youtube.com will give you all the instruction you can handle.
Just ‘ask’ in the search bar and there are loads of instructional videos for GoDaddy and Hostgator as well as how to build your WordPress site/blog.

Whichever way you go, one thing is for certain;
You WILL need to; promote – promote – promote 😉

How To – Promote the Bejeezus out of it:

You’ll want the World and their Auntie to know about your photographic images that you have for sale, and you’ll want them to tell others about your images too, but don’t worry, there’s nothing too hard about this and it can all be done for ‘Free!’ – especially as we’ve got Twitter,/X, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Google etc, all clamouring for us to share our videos and our images to their ever-growing audiences, and who are WE to deny them 🙂

If you’re a little bit astute, then you’ll be wondering ‘why’ have I left Pinterest out of the list above? That’s because Pinterest is your Key to unlocking the potential of your ‘Cash-Cow-Photography’.
It thrives on images and it encourages you to state ‘where’ the photograph was sourced from, and that is your cue to insert the link from either your own website, or the page on iStock.com (or wherever) that they can see the image and potentially ‘buy’ that image.

Everyone who visits Pinterest and wishes to Re-Pin an image onto their own boards are ‘also encouraged’ to share that image with all of the other social network sites (above & + some) helping it to go viral 🙂

Webmasters and Bloggers use Pinterest Religiously to source their images, because if you don’t know already, you can type any subject/niche` into the Pinterest search bar and you can browse through 1,000’s of images associated with that niche` or subject matter. If your image has received plenty of views, it will be near the top of those search pages, so it will be in your own interest to share your Pinterest ‘Pin’ with as many friends/followers as you can via social media sites. If you’re not already signed up to them, then get your skates on and start building your following NOW!

As you know, Instagram is ‘The! social network site to share your pic’s these days. But did you know that there is a proven way to use Instagram to make a lot of money for you from those images?

Make Every Photo Count:

If you’re like most people, you’ll happily snap away at many of the things you see, and with the inclusion of the ‘Rolling Shutter Effect’ on most smart Phones it’s becoming more easy to get that ‘perfect’ shot, identify it quickly, and then save it to your phone (or save them all for even more effective options including comic-strip presentations ). This is not necessarily a bad thing because photo’s taken on the hoof can prove really interesting in their own way and also look very natural and appealing.

Have you ever used the various app’s or computer software to change or enhance your photo’s?
Do you look at the image you’re going to take in the first place to see if you could maybe frame it better?

Would you know how to get a better angle or better subject inclusion for a more perfect pic?

These are all things that, unless we’re trained in some way in photography, we wouldn’t really consider while we’re snapping away. But if the end game is to make a reliable residual income from our photo’s then maybe we should find out more about how to take a ‘perfect picture’, large or small, and how to embellish or enhance our images so that they appear more desirable to those looking for images to put on their websites, blogs, e-books etc.

Before you load your images onto a website for sale, you’ll want to get them sorted first and then be putting your very best examples up first so that when potential buyers see your images they’ll see a portfolio of good, well organised and very useful pictures that they can use very easily and therefore make money from also. After all, that’s the end-game that we all have in mind.
There are many Free E-courses on Youtube, and by utilising some of those you’ll be putting yourself head and shoulders above many of your competition who are just ‘winging it’ with the snaps they take and loading them up more in hope than in confident anticipation.

You have invested a small amount of time for this E-book which I really hope is proving helpful. But don’t stop there, because for a little bit more investment time in your own future, you could set yourself up for life, not just as a part-time, casual photographer, but as a serious contender who is more than prepared to take it to the big-boys in the photography world ‘And WIN!’

Street Art Photography Tips:

Tip 1: Leave your phone on standby;

Have you ever come across a situation where you see an interesting scene in the street and desperately want to shoot it but the picture goes missing while you turn on your phone and wait for the photography APP to open?
YEP! – Opportunity will ‘not’ wait for you.

I usually leave my Phone in ‘photography mode’, it’s then easy for me to unlock the phone screen and immediately start shooting at any time, it means I seldom miss the pictures I want to shoot in the street.

Tip 2: Stabilise your smart-phone;

It sounds obvious, but if you don’t stabilise it you’ll get the following issue:

You will find that the main body of the photo looks fuzzy on the small screen of the phone. This will affect the final picture, so you should always stabilise your phone (where possible) when shooting, especially in low-light conditions.

Tip 3: Make good use of your headphones;

If you have a headset ‘voice activation button’ you can also use that as a shutter, sometimes you don’t want to disturb the object/person that you want to shoot in your street photography, so you can pretend you’re listening to music or talking on the phone, therefore letting you take your photographs discretely. It also allows you to reduce the vibration when you press the shutter button or accidentally touch the phone screen.

Tip 4: Lock The Aperture;

Some APPS functionality includes the locking of the aperture and focal length. I personally like the aperture lock function, natural light on the street is very random, locking the aperture allows me to better control the light. It can not only give proper exposure to the photo, but it also allows me to take different atmospherical shots in the same lighting conditions.

Tip 5: Just shooting;

Never hesitate when taking street photographs, those natural scenes on the street seldom appear a second time. If you don’t like the photo, you can always delete it, but you absolutely cannot let a street scene slip you by. Therefore, if your instincts guide you to shoot, then you shoot, just don’t hesitate. Using the Rolling Shutter Effect can also be ‘so’ helpful here.

Tip 6: Foreknowledge;

You never know what will happen in the streets. The ability to predict is not always present, so use your powers of observation to determine how interesting scenarios ‘might’ occur.

Tip 7: Charge your battery before going out;

I usually take an external battery with me during my street photography jaunts. A fatal flaw of many Phones is the power endurance. So, please remember not to go out shooting until ‘after’ the battery is fully charged, unless of course you have a fully charged back-up battery.

Tip 8: Waiting;

Scenes on the street are random and sporadic, but sometimes you can “create” the narrative of the screen. For example, waiting for someone to walk through/past an interesting movie poster, or waiting for a group of people to walk across a pedestrian crossing in unison for example. Street photography is not just holding a cell phone or a camera aimlessly looking for targets in the streets, you should always just stop and observe, maybe it will help you shoot your next masterpiece.

Why Would We Think It OK To Use Our Smart-Phones?

It’s easy to dismiss our Smart-Phone cameras, after all, they are hidden in plain sight and right there every time we “slide to unlock” our phones.

So you can’t take any “real” pictures with them, right?

Perhaps you’re one of the many photographers who think that it’s not a “real” camera and that, to get the best images photographically you really need to lug around a giant DSLR complete with all of the lenses you can fit into your pack.

Even Ansel Adams had to use a mule to carry his camera gear at one point, right? So how could something so small and easy to use ‘actually’ take acceptable images?

Well, Smart-Phone cameras, photography, and optics in general, have changed over the years. Gone are the days of needing large camera equipment – camera manufacturers and modern optics have dictated that we are now doing more with less. Combine that with the notion that a seasoned photographer will know how to make best use of equipment, whatever equipment he or she has available, and you have a recipe for some great images.

Sure, it’s great to have a DSLR available, and most Smart-Phone photographers will still have one at their disposal, but that doesn’t mean you can’t also take some great images and make some lasting artwork with your new little buddy, the Smart-Phone camera.

As a working photographer, I play to the strengths of ‘all’ of my equipment. In the past, large format cameras gave me crisp, highly detailed images, but they were heavy and hard to work with in tight situations.

Likewise, 35mm cameras were great for shooting street scenes because they allowed the photographer to go unnoticed in the urban jungle.

Medium format cameras offered a compromise of sorts-they offered large enough negatives so that we could retouch images but in a smaller, easy to carry package.

Polaroid’s gave us instant results, so these were often used to test lighting, but then their colour gamut helped turn them into a funky alternative to “straight” shooting.

Now the Smart-Phone cameras have come along and opened up some amazing new possibilities.

The Smart-Phone is portable, easy to use, easy to hide, and not as scary as a “real” camera. The structure of the phone makes the camera easy to angle. If you want to take a picture of the undercarriage of your car, for example, good luck trying to get an 8×10 view camera down there, but, a Smart-Phone? Yes, you can easily hold it and tilt it to get the right camera angle. Also, the convenience of deleting images you don’t like is offered along with easy access to sharing your photo’s with the Internet and social media sites such as Facebook.

Try taking an image using an 8×10 view camera from ‘Shot-to-Facebook’ in under a few minutes – that’s not likely to happen really, but of course, the results will probably be very different. So, if it’s large crisp negatives you’re after, you’ll probably want to pass on the Smart-Phone camera anyway, but you can still use it to work on the angles and get some shots that otherwise would not be available to you as a photographer with the more clumbersome state-of-the-art DSLR cameras.

So – How to play into the strengths of
The Smart-Phone camera?

Well for starters, it’s easy to hold and it fits in your pocket. If you’re one of those photographers who would benefit from shooting a lot more and reviewing your results more easily, the Smart-Phone can come in very handy here. You should definitely think about adding one to your camera bag if you haven’t already.

The Smart-Phone camera is also easy to get away with. Because so many people have iPhones and Smart-Phones in general, some establishments that would otherwise ban photography might allow you to get away with taking Smart-Phone images.

Supposing you’ve always wanted to take images inside a theatre for example. This is not the kind of place you would be able to sneak in a camera, probably not even a DSLR, but most folks walk right in with their Smart-Phone in tow, so you have access into an otherwise restricted subject or area with a high resolution, multi-functional, real digital camera.

I’m not suggesting you compromise nuclear secrets here or anything quite like that, but this is something you can make the most of, especially in places like restaurants, theatres, stores, and the like. You’re less likely to be evicted, ejected, or otherwise removed if the only camera you’re carrying is actually a phone.

The “easy to get away with” feature doesn’t just stop at location though. Certain subjects are far more likely to open up to the Smart-Phone camera. Since most people have Smart-Phones themselves, they are less likely to be apprehensive about having their picture taking with a mobile phone camera.

This can make for great portraits and make it easier to take spontaneous images. Try doing that with a larger camera.

Whichever type of camera you choose to use is obviously your personal choice, but please don’t underestimate the ‘Earning POWER’ of digital photography. And how you can very easily make a great residual income doing something you’re already doing anyway.

P.S. Maybe you’re thinking to yourself that this is a pretty short book and that you were expecting a whole lot more content for your money.
Well, that’s a reasonable thought I suppose. But rather than overwhelm you with useless ‘filler’ content like most ‘How-To’ Books/Manuals/Reports do, I thought I’d just give you the simple, straight-forward method that 1,000’s of people just like you are using daily to make a very healthy income for themselves.

It ‘is’ a simple concept and you don’t need to get overwhelmed by unnecessary information overload. So re-read this short E-book and inwardly digest it. Your sub-conscious mind will kick in and probably kick you in the butt too to get you motivated and moving on, putting all of this good advice into action as soon as possible.

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Enjoy your journey through the ‘Labyrinth’ won’t you?

Good Luck – Pete Moring 🙂

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