Make $400 monthly selling pictures

Can you get a hold on a digital camera and take shots? Even if you are a complete amateur, you can still rake in a steady $500 monthly, even more using this unknown secret strategy I am going to reveal to you today. Not just can you rake in that much, this will be one of the most stress-free income you can pull from the Internet.Just imagine. You go to your village and you see chickens playing around.. you take the photo. You go to the market place, stand at on top of a story building and take a shot of the market scene. You see a river side view and take a shot or maybe you go to a friend?s house and you take a great shot of the cute little aquarium fish in the sitting room. You then get back home, process the picture a little, upload it to some selected sites I will show you and by next week, you?ve made some cash from your photo. Between you and I, I won?t say that was so difficult or was it?All you have to do is understand how this is done, know exactly where to take your pictures to and you are in business. Just start taking pictures and start earning because as ?amateur? as you consider yourself, you are in high demand (very high demand) across the world if you can detect a wonderful scene and take a cute little photo.Brace up because I am about to reveal to you a whole new world of unexplored cash in the photography business that I bet you?ve never heard preached before.Taking photos is fun. What's more fun, is getting paid for taking photos. Then you can spend more time doing what you enjoy. First let me pass you a little secret. In photography, just like any other field, a lot of the ?hot-shots? did not start off as professional photographers. Infact, a lot of them started out in fields far from photography!Elliott Porter was a doctor, Ansel Adams was a pianist, Galen Rowell was a mechanic, Bob Krist was an actor. If these people can start from nowhere and sell their work, so can you.The nice part about selling photography is that anyone can do it -- you are not dependent upon physical ability, age, or background. It is more about art and energy. The photography market is so open that every photographer I've met to date is pleased to give ideas and suggestions.Each time since the last 4months (that I have learnt and started researching this secret), everyone I have spoken to about it have all asked the same question: ?How Can I Sell My Photos? I am almost certain that?s the one thing on your mind. Yes, I am going to tell you all about it BUT first, let me cover some points that will make the distinction between you wasting your time and you making money from this venture.Knowing What To Shoot & What To PublishAs you begin to take photographs, you will quickly learn that you can easily make income from several areas in the photography world. You can also decide to specialise. There are people who specialise in taking only pictures of motorcycles, or cars or trees for instance. As someone starting however and I guess without much photography expertise or some ?fancy? cameras, you might want to stick to the other and do a lot of areas.The truth is: any area can turn into photo-cash for you. However, I must warn that you need to know what is legal to shoot. You can go to http://rcfp.org/photoguide/ , http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm, http://photography.about.com/od/legalissues to learn about some of the legal issuesQUICK TIP: some photo types are more in high demand than others and so going for such photos will fetch you more cash and quicker. Examples are beautiful nature pictures (beaches, trees, sunset etc), electronic stuff that could easily be used on websites (earn quick bucks with these), business people (men and woman), money, business related photos (pile of newspapers, calculators..) etc.As regards what to publish. There are things like photos that reveal private facts about someone, images that include copyrighted logos or trademarks within them, photos that appear to indicate a libelous and unsubstantiated appearance such as a preacher in front of a sign for a porn movie, thus implying he was going to see it etcThat covered, there are 3 basic ways to make money from your photos. The first is to sell them. I?ll call this stock photos. The second is to create products out of your photos. For instance, the creation of an animal book for children containing photos of animals with short descriptions or to create cards using your pictures and the third is to render services which is the very popular one we see around where you lend your skill to people who need to carve a memory of their events on paper.My goal here is to show you how to sell your photos over the web (stock photos). So, what are stock photos?I?ll describe stock photos as pictures you have already taken. It is in your pile of photos and is ready for use. I mean if I tell you how, you could just take them out now and sell for cash. Simple!You see, publishers love to use stock photos because it is easier. It takes a lot of time and money to hire a photographer and get him or her to take the needed shots. It is by far better to use cute, ready made pictures and you will agree with me this is most correct. Each time I have had to design a website or to do header graphics for my sites or create my stunning ebook covers, I have always turned to stock photos because they are plain easy.All you have to do is to go out and take your photos. Some of your photos will need processing. If you are experienced with handling of graphics, you can easily do this yourself using photo editing softwares like photoshop or you can just hire someone to do them for you cheap.Where Can I Sell My Photos Online & HowThe best way to sell your photos is by offering your stock photos for sale by putting them on the Web. You hope that the client comes to you by displaying your photos online and waiting for sales. Its simple. You get all your photos as you take them, upload them to a website and name them appropriately with proper keywords and then wait for someone to come over and purchase them.You can do this in two ways. First you can get your own website and second you can go over to photo agencies.Photo agencies combine the stock photos of many photographers, hundreds of thousands of them, create a large exposure and draw thousands of visitors who come to buy those photos. Based on these reasons, going to these sites might be your best bet.Here is a list of some of the photo agencies you can go to and register an account for free, upload your pictures and start earning an income.www.ShutterStock.com- Get Paid 20 Cents Every Time Someone Downloads One Of Your Images for free! If your images are good they may be downloaded over 100 times everyday. With about 10 to 30 good images, you will be making a good monthly income! www.Fotolia.com - Sign Up, Upload Your Photos, And Get Paid! Receive Up To 80% Of The Sales Price!www.iStockPhoto.com - Once you join them you can begin selling your photos with them! They also provide free training on how to make your photos professional!www.ShutterPoint.com - Upload your photos and sell them at whatever price you want!DreamsTime Photo (www.DreamsTime.com - Get paid 50 - 65% off every photo that gets downloaded!www.CanStockPhoto.com - Low competition (relatively new) you are almost guaranteed to sell tons of your photos on this site.www.Alamy.com - Earn 65% for every photo that Alama sells for you. Good money!www.FotoTopic.net - When You upload your photos you can allow people allow people to use your photos for T-Shirts, Mugs, etc. - Doing so you are able to set your own rates for your photos!http://www.bigstockphoto.com Lots of users. Upload a few hundred "quality" photos here and you will develop a nice recurring monthly income! Others include www.morephotos.com , www.FolioLink.com www.iStockphoto.com www.ktools.net/ www.photostockplus.com www.shutterpoint.com www.crestock.com www.stockandprints.com NOTE: while going to register on these sites, be prepared with a scanned copy of identification. Some of the sites will accept your national ID or driver license. Others will settle for nothing else but your international passport so be ready.Additional Tips:People who will come to search for photos at these sites will search using the search engines. So try and name your pictures in such a way as to fit description criteria that people will be searching for. For instance if you have the picture of a businessman, don?t name your picture Johnny because if you do, it would most probably never get downloaded because people won?t search for ?Johnny?. What they will be looking for is businessman, so it better you label your pictureas businessman.Also, take advantage of mis-spelling to make more money from your pictures. You see a lot of people will mis-spell the search word. For instance someone might spell businessman as busneesman. Now, because of that mis-spelling, the search engine will give your own picture precedence over others if t was spelled that way, meaning more exposure, more downloads and ultimately more cash.So, what are you waiting for? You?ve got a camera, you can take the nice shots and you know where to sell your photos. Go and shoot for $500 to $2000 monthly doing what you love!