Take your photography hobby to the next level

Okay let's say that you have your digital camera on your hand. And you already shoot many pictures, some of them stored on your PC's hard drive, and some on your external disc drive or on your digital memory card. You've took some nice pictures of everything that interested you. Pictures of panorama from your vacation trip, faces of people in different expression, occasional photo events that you've attended and all of those photos never been exposed to anybody, except you, your family and acquaintance that interested on your photos saw it. Some of them said that a few of your collections have a quality of professional photographer and maybe some of them encourage you to be a pro of your hobby or at least make some extra cash from it.

And then the thought of taking your hobby to the next level spinning your brain but you don't have any idea where to begin. You can surf through the net by typing "get paid to take photos" keyword. There are over 64 million sites that related to the keyword but only a few of them give you the free information about it. Almost all of them are affiliate sites or else a web page promoting that affiliate sites. Where do you find free and impartial make money from digital camera review anyway? I suggest web 2.0 sites have the answer like squidoo, digg , etc and of course blogs (like you're reading right now :P).

Here is some of the information that I gather from the internet, I hope it can answered your need.

1. Be part time or professional photographer
   

   If you are a photographer enthusiast you might be considered switching your hobby into your job (part or full time). You can still have fun with your hobby while you make a decent of income. The road maybe a little risky but you will enjoy the trip.
   

2. Sell your photo gallery to the public
   

   Some of your photo can be categorize as art photography, some people love to have photos which has a taste of an art, and in fact some of them collected it and equated it like oil painting collections. But you have to be well recognize art photographer or highly creative artist if you want make ridiculously large amount of money by this method.
   

3. Make money taking photo online
   

   Making money taking photo online can be simplified by 4 actions:
   

• Take some photos
  
• Upload them to online paid stock photo agency
  
• Your photos get viewed or downloaded
  
• Get paid for it
  

Here are the sites that I personally recommended:

Shareapic – The sharing site that gives back! In this site you'll pay if someone viewed your photo, the viewed image mean is when surfer click on your photo. You will pay $0.22 per 1000 views, you may think this is too cheap but you can earn more money by adding your Bidvertiser code on your photo and gallery pages.

Shutterstocks – Royalty-Free Subscription Stock Photography and Vector Art. In this site you'll pay if someone downloaded your photo or image that you have uploaded onto this site. You can get $25 cent per download and once you reach $500 in earning, they will raise your commission to $30 cent per download. Imagine if you have hot photo that everybody looking for how much money that earn a month, or do the math if your photo or image has minimum 200 downloaded a day, how much money that you'll earn in the end month. The earning is just from one photo or images, what if you submit 500 photos and it 20 downloaded a day minimum? Well, you do the countJ.

I hope the above information is helping you to pursue your goal in photography. I am sure that you need more explanation about how to monetize your photography hobby, I promise I'll post the info more detail on my next post.

The Basic Photography Tips

I suppose that you already have your own digital camera, and you are ready to go out door to shoot a picture of something interesting. Then you make a few shoot of the object but when you see the photo preview, one of your eyebrow raise up. What he hek is this? The photo you have taken is not like you have been imagined. What's wrong? No, no, no…There is nothing wrong, maybe you should learn some basic things about digital photography. Because ones said "It's all about the man behind the camera". It's mean that even if you use the avant-garde digital camera is not guarantee that every capture image will be great and perfect. Your passion of photography will exposed on the photo that you've taken.

Now if the passion has triggered, you should sharpen it by learned some basic things about digital photography. Learning how a digital camera works, understanding the strategies in taking photos and how to take indoor and outdoor picture are all part of the things a newbie should learn.

Learning how a digital camera works; I assume that you already know how your gadget works, but if you want to refresh your memory, read my past post. So let's go to next part, these are an ultimate ideas to help beginner to find out the secrets of taking photos.

1. Focus on the object
   

   The object that you want to take photo is something that you have to pay attention. Zoom in the lens to capture the object you want to emphasize, irrelevant area or objects can be cut or blurred the vicinity by adjust the aperture on appropriate set.
   

2. Try different angle
   

   Take a picture from different position, some objects have vantage point of view. Take it from opposite side, up and down, right and left. See the preview which side is the best picture.
   

3. Arrange your object
   

   Select the dominant objects of your target; arrange them so that they can complement each other as balance objects. But sometime asymmetrical objects are often catchier and visually stimulating than balanced objects.
   

4. Having fun with your gadget features
   

   The features of your camera should be your companion, because it is the tool that can make the photo that you take look good.
   

• Learn how to adjust aperture properly and appropriately, because it can make the images not appear either too bright or too dim.
  
• Adjusting the shutter speed will make the images not to be more exposed to the light or appear as blurry.
  
• ISO Speed is measurement of the camera's sensitivity to light's exposure, adjust it along with camera's aperture and shutter speeds.
  
• Use appropriate type of lens depending of you're the photo that you captured
  
• Using lens's filter for soften the effect of the images and blurred the edges of the portraits that have sensitive mode.
  

1. Practice make perfect, after all a trial and error method always give deep memorable because you find your own technique taking pictures by it.
   

Those are the basic tips of photography that I personally use in the beginning of my photography experience. You may find up to date and advance technique by attending a photography class in your hometown. You won't have to experience a frustrating trial and error time, because by attending it you will have the knowledge of the technique with learning by doing method with full time assistance from your lector.