subject: Quick Tips For Marketing Your Landscape Photography For Sale [print this page] Marketing your landscape photography for sale on the Internet can be very easy if you have a plan and take a few easy steps that will give your art the visibility you want. An amateur photographer can easily create a sustainable, residual income doing what they love through the proper utilization of the marketing tools that are used with other Internet businesses.
There is a tremendous market for photography on the Internet. Website owners, designers, and collectors are constantly looking for art to use in brochures, marketing campaigns, and other mediums that will grow their business. And, while there are thousands of photographs available on micro-stock sites, they are often overlooked because the photographer has not taken the steps needed to make their love of photography and posting photographs a business.
Practice taking photos that are clear, crisp, nicely composed and well thought out. In order to build the marketability of your photos, you will want to take digital photos that are available in a high resolution format. Your photos cannot contain a logo or copyrighted material. If there are any models in your photograph, it will be important to get a model release form signed. This is important even if the person or pet in your photo is not easy to make out.
The goal of your photograph is to create a strong emotional connection to the place that you are shooting. Therefore, setting the mood of the photo by getting the right lighting and experimenting with different color tones will be an excellent way to find the perfect combination of landscape and color that will create the greatest response from your customers.
The landscape should be planned and not look like a photo that is taken by a tourist or a snapshot. Taking time to experiment with a digital camera and practice will result in the best and most marketable photos. Finding the niche that does not have a lot of photos available on the micro stock websites is a great way to begin building your portfolio and income quickly.
There are several micro-stock websites that you can load your photos on for sale. The site gets a percentage of the sale and you are paid automatically when sales are made. If you do not commit to be exclusive with one micro-site, you can load the same photo on several sites. Check the sites carefully because some sites only allow you to load ten to fifteen photos on their site while other sites allow you to load hundreds of photos all at once.
While there are hundreds of thousands of photos for sale on the stock sites, if you treat your photography the same as any other Internet business you can build a residual income more easily. There are some important steps to take when you are loading photos to get them the most visibility and sales possible.
Remember to use relevant key words on your photo. Be very specific on your submittal form and use the real name of the photo as well as nicknames. Put the location, town, road, and county where the photo was taken. Mark the are where the photo was taken on a map or on Wiki-Maps so that people can find the location. All of these steps will increase the likelihood that a person looking for your photograph will find it. By loading your photos and selling them on micro-stock sites you can start generating an income quickly.
