If you have a digital camera then you’ve got a powerful money making tool at your fingertips. There are lots of ways you can use your camera to make some extra part time cash! Here are a few ideas for making cash from your camera.
Four Simple Ways To Make Money With Your Digital Camera
With these ideas, you don’t need any special photography skills to make money with your camera. Also, you don’t need a professional digital camera – any half decent one will do. You might even be able to use your camera phone to make money if it’s good enough!
Compiling Insurance Inventories
Most insurance companies recommend that householders with lots of expensive possessions (jewellery, art, antiques etc.) take photographs to help with their claim in case they are stolen or damaged. Most people can’t be bothered to, or don’t have the time, so it would be easy enough to offer a service compiling professional insurance inventories for well-heeled householders.
Here’s how it would work: Simply photograph each valuable piece from several different angles. Write a short description of piece. Then upload all the data onto memory sticks for safekeeping.
Tip. You’d need to be professional, well presented, trustworthy and the soul of discretion to succeed with this service.
Compiling Landlord Inventories
When landlords let out a property it’s common practice to compile a written inventory of the premises and contents – to help resolve any disputes should the tenant damage anything during the tenancy. And, it’s now becoming more popular to include photographs (or even a video) as part of this inventory.
Now, most landlords don’t have the time or know-how to photograph each of their properties in this way. So it’s a service that really should be in demand from hard-pressed property owners. All you need to do is photograph the property in graphic detail, upload the photos to a CD or memory stick, and sign to say it’s a true and fair record.
Tip. Estate and letting agents might help you find customers. Pay them a commission for putting you in touch.
Taking Photos For Photo Libraries
This is a really simple one, that anybody can do! Basically, digital photo libraries serve as a marketplace between photographers who have photos to sell, and customers (such as magazines, newspapers, publishers and advertising agencies) who want to use them. All you do is upload whatever photographs you take to the library site. Then, when a customer buys the library will pay you the fee, less their commission.
You can upload and sell photos of (almost) whatever you like, your kids, your pets, your holidays, the countryside, historic buildings, street scenes, using photo libraries. You may only earn a few pounds or pence for each sale, but it all adds up over the year.
If you’re interested, I recommend you read for more information. It explains exactly how this opportunity works. More details in the What Biz Opp Shop.
Wedding Scrapbooking
Now, most people who are getting married have an official wedding to make a formal record of the day. But it’s becoming increasingly fashionable to make an informal, funny or even wacky record of the day too. This is what being a wedding scrapbooker involves.
All you’d need to do is attend the ceremony and/or the reception and snap the informal, lighthearted side of the day. You get the idea, everything from adorable small children playing hide-and-seek in the church to that near-disaster with the cake! Towards the end of the day print off all your pics using a portable printer, stick them into a scrapbook and pass it around the reception for guests to add their own greetings. Present it to the bride and groom as a wonderful, alternative record of their special day.
It doesn’t matter if your pics aren’t professional quality – as you’re complementing the services of a professional photographer not replacing them. Yet you could still charge several hundred pounds per wedding for your service.