Shooting & Selling Your Photos Paperback - 2003 - 1st Edition

Turn your love of photography into a money-making business!

Get all the information you need to successfully shoot, sell, and market your photos. Inside, world-renowned photographer Jim Zuckerman provides an exciting combination of authoritative, straightforward instruction and beautiful show-and-tell photography.

Zuckerman's methods are comprehensive and easy to put into action. First, you'll learn how to create the highest quality photos:

• Evaluate your photography, then take 5 easy steps to improve it
• Pick powerful, interesting, and vivid subjects
• Use dramatic lighting and high-quality backgrounds
• Juxtapose colorful subjects for maximum impact
• Choose the best format for your work–film vs. digital

Then you'll master the secrets of business success:

• Find subjects and themes that sell
• Create inexpensive, yet striking, print and online portfolios
• Establish yourself on the internet through websites and online promotions
• Execute dynamic advertising, direct mail and publicity campaigns
• Get noticed with creative, professional submissions
• Put together a portfolio that showcases you strengths–fine art, wildlife, advertising, magazine, or stock photography

But that's not all! Zuckerman also shows you how to sell your work at art shows, join a stock photography agency, prepare winning submissions–even self-publish your work and develop a product line.

Turn your dream into reality and start making money today–Jim Zuckerman shows you how to make it happen!