It’s #TravelTuesday and I, Dave Williams, am back again to share something for the photography world with you, and today I want to tell you about a little side hustle ahead of the KelbyOne ‘Making Money With Your Photography’ Conference.
I want to tell you about stock photography. I want you to have a look through your photo library and see what you have in there that has value. All of us end up with photos that don’t quite make the cut for our portfolio or end up being shown to friends, but often these photos are technically ‘correct’ and there’s probably someone out there looking for a photo just like that.
Image libraries, such as Adobe Stock, are founded on the basis that people want to be able to find a photo of just about anything that they need for a project. The obvious users are graphics designers, editors and marketing professionals who need something to fill a gap in a piece of work or tell a story in an article, but the bottom line is that they want to find the subject they’re searching for.
Our excess images often fill the gap for these people. A photo of a table in a restaurant or a green field on a sunny day that didn’t make the cut for us can be used to switch on our side hustle in stock photography. Signing up is straight-forward and so long as we’re only submitting images that are ‘technically correct’, those being images that are in focus, correctly exposed, composed properly etc, we can make an income with something we already have in our image library.
Go take a look into joining Adobe Stock as a contributor and see if you can make enough cash in a side hustle to pay for your photography hobby!
Much love
Dave
