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صور الحيوانات تربح دولارًا أمريكيًا ..
التصوير الفوتوغرافي الحديث
Home portraits of pets
One area where you can start building your repu tation as an animal photographer is to do home portraiture of pets and animals . It is a field that is virtually untouched . Most professional " people " photographers are too busy with their regular clien tele to bother with animal portraits .
Regardless of where you live big town or small , city or country , there are animals all around you needing to be photographed . The pet industry today generates more than 2 billion dollars of busi ness annually . People love their pets and would pay good money for good pictures of their animals . You can do it .
Contact a couple of the most respected and influ ential members of your community and offer to photograph their pet free . Tell them quite can -didly that the pictures you give them to hang in their home , office or shop will be seen by their friends and will generate future sales for you a specialist in animal and pet portraiture .
That is exactly what will happen . People will see the photos and they will want to have fine pictures made of their own pets . Word of mouth will bring you even more customers .
After you've built up a fairly good collection of outstanding animal photographs , go to your local bank , library , hospital or other institution where there is a good flow of people and arrange to have an exhibition of your animal pictures . Make sure you indicate the name of the owners of the animal under each photo . This will get people talk ing about how they saw a terrific photo of Mrs. Smith's poodle on exhibit at the bank or library or wherever .
Be sure to have a discreet sign in the exhibit area with your name and phone number — and , a mes sage that you are available by appointment to make portraits of pets . This should get you quite a bit of business .
Let them call for prices
Give no indication of prices you charge for your work in the exhibit . Let people who are inter ested call you .
Concurrently with the exhibit , your local news paper will more than likely give you a writeup and reproduce one or two pictures . The exposure in the press will result in more commissions to start you into another area of animal photography the " human interest " or feature pictures that all editors like to use but never seems to get enough of them the wistful puppy ; the kitten with its mouth covered with milk as it makes its first efforts at eating ; the child hugging a young goat which the editor will almost always caption , " Just a Couple of Kids " .
Most newspaper staff photographers are so busy shooting spot news , sports action , personality and organization pictures they haven't much time for doing feature pictures . So , every editor who knows that his readers enjoy feature pictures of animals , are always willing to buy them when offered .
You won't get rich from the fees you get for the feature photos . Small town weekly newspapers are notorious for their picayune payments for freelance photography . At this point in your career , don't fight prices but do ask for a credit line under the picture . The more your name sees the light of day , the greater will be your fame .
When you first start selling to newspapers , stay with the small local papers . In rural areas it is usual ly a weekly , while in the suburbs and small towns it might be a small daily . Avoid the big city papers at the beginning . Your chances of sales will be far greater with the small papers than with a big one .
Once you're selling to your local newspaper you will be making animal portraits regularly . What next ? Take a trip to a library that displays a good selection of magazines . Study the articles and illus trations . Analyze which ones might be potential markets for your type of animal photography . Consider all of possible angles for sales .
Obviously , a magazine devoted to road construc tion is not going to buy a picture story on how a mother dog adopted a litter of kittens . But , that same magazine might buy a feature picture of a litter of kittens born in the cab of a bulldozer parked at an interstate highways construction site especially , if the bulldozer manufacturer advertises in that construction magazine !
صور الحيوانات تربح دولارًا أمريكيًا ..
التصوير الفوتوغرافي الحديث
Home portraits of pets
One area where you can start building your repu tation as an animal photographer is to do home portraiture of pets and animals . It is a field that is virtually untouched . Most professional " people " photographers are too busy with their regular clien tele to bother with animal portraits .
Regardless of where you live big town or small , city or country , there are animals all around you needing to be photographed . The pet industry today generates more than 2 billion dollars of busi ness annually . People love their pets and would pay good money for good pictures of their animals . You can do it .
Contact a couple of the most respected and influ ential members of your community and offer to photograph their pet free . Tell them quite can -didly that the pictures you give them to hang in their home , office or shop will be seen by their friends and will generate future sales for you a specialist in animal and pet portraiture .
That is exactly what will happen . People will see the photos and they will want to have fine pictures made of their own pets . Word of mouth will bring you even more customers .
After you've built up a fairly good collection of outstanding animal photographs , go to your local bank , library , hospital or other institution where there is a good flow of people and arrange to have an exhibition of your animal pictures . Make sure you indicate the name of the owners of the animal under each photo . This will get people talk ing about how they saw a terrific photo of Mrs. Smith's poodle on exhibit at the bank or library or wherever .
Be sure to have a discreet sign in the exhibit area with your name and phone number — and , a mes sage that you are available by appointment to make portraits of pets . This should get you quite a bit of business .
Let them call for prices
Give no indication of prices you charge for your work in the exhibit . Let people who are inter ested call you .
Concurrently with the exhibit , your local news paper will more than likely give you a writeup and reproduce one or two pictures . The exposure in the press will result in more commissions to start you into another area of animal photography the " human interest " or feature pictures that all editors like to use but never seems to get enough of them the wistful puppy ; the kitten with its mouth covered with milk as it makes its first efforts at eating ; the child hugging a young goat which the editor will almost always caption , " Just a Couple of Kids " .
Most newspaper staff photographers are so busy shooting spot news , sports action , personality and organization pictures they haven't much time for doing feature pictures . So , every editor who knows that his readers enjoy feature pictures of animals , are always willing to buy them when offered .
You won't get rich from the fees you get for the feature photos . Small town weekly newspapers are notorious for their picayune payments for freelance photography . At this point in your career , don't fight prices but do ask for a credit line under the picture . The more your name sees the light of day , the greater will be your fame .
When you first start selling to newspapers , stay with the small local papers . In rural areas it is usual ly a weekly , while in the suburbs and small towns it might be a small daily . Avoid the big city papers at the beginning . Your chances of sales will be far greater with the small papers than with a big one .
Once you're selling to your local newspaper you will be making animal portraits regularly . What next ? Take a trip to a library that displays a good selection of magazines . Study the articles and illus trations . Analyze which ones might be potential markets for your type of animal photography . Consider all of possible angles for sales .
Obviously , a magazine devoted to road construc tion is not going to buy a picture story on how a mother dog adopted a litter of kittens . But , that same magazine might buy a feature picture of a litter of kittens born in the cab of a bulldozer parked at an interstate highways construction site especially , if the bulldozer manufacturer advertises in that construction magazine !
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