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Freelance Photography
Welcome to ePHOTOzine's freelance section, created by our sister title Freelance Photography Made Easy (FPME). Members who join ePHOTOzine soon become tempted to earn money from their photography. Earning cash from your camera is a great way to help pay for your next lens or studio flash you may have been dreaming about. It also gets you a foot up into a more enjoyable career if you decide to take up professional photography full time. While getting in to the market is fairly easy, knowing how to make the first steps and where to go can be more difficult. The idea of FPME is to share tips and techniques to make your life as a freelance photographer easier. We offer advice on setting up and running your business, provide hundreds of leads for selling photos and share success stories of existing members. Click here to look at the many benefits of joining our rapidly growing group of freelance photographers.
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- Leads in a vast range of markets to help you sell your work
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- Receive brand new sales leads every week, at no extra cost
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35 Online Freelance Articles:
- Available only to subscribers on the fpme.co.uk website
- Articles include: Creating a portfolio, Pictures that sell 1-10, Selling to magazines, Stock Photography, Winning Photo Competitions, Calendar Photography and many more...
Freelance Photography Articles
Below is a series of articles you can access as a member of FPME. You also have access to an image buyer area on the FPME site where picture buyers post their photography needs.
6x7 Stock photography
The 6x7cm format is now regarded as the standard issue for stock photography. Lee Frost explains why. Investing in a medium-format camera system is a major step in every photographer's career, and o...
Book photography
Book illustration may be great for your vanity, but with shrinking advances and diminishing sales it's no longer a way to get rich quick. Words and pictures Lee Frost
To the average man on the str...
Calendar photography
From January to May every year, calendar publishers around the country are on the lookout for photographs to illustrate their next range. Lee Frost tells you how to break into this ever-expand...
Commissioned photography
Taking-on commissioned jobs is a different proposition to shooting stock images for a picture library, or making on-spec submissions to publishers. Lee Frost offers and insight to what's involved.
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Confessions of a freelance photographer
The path to freelance success isn't always a smooth one. Lee Frost takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at some of his earlier exploits. The idea of earning a living doing something you love is perhaps...
Creating a Portfolio
In some areas of photography - commercial and industrial, advertising, social and editorial - it's important that you have a good quality portfolio of your best work ready to show people. If a new...
Greetings cards
In the greeting card market freelancers only have a
chance if they know exactly what the publisher's requirements are...
Words and pictures Angelika Stehle
Format and quality play an i...
Image Building
When it comes to making money from photography it's the quality of your work that counts above all else. At the same time, however, you will be taken more seriously in some markets - and possibly of...
Losing photographs
Having an original photograph lost of damaged while in the hands of a client isn't something you'd welcome, but if you cover your back you could be laughing all the way to the bank.Words and picture...
Model releases
With legal firms tripping over themselves to help Joe Public take someone to court, selling pictures of people without a signed model release is a risky business these days.
Words and Pictures Lee ...
Pay Your Dues Part 1
Any income you make from photography is taxable and should be declared to the Inland Revenue. In the first of a two-part feature, Lee Frost outlines the benefits - and penalties - of not doing this ...
Pay Your Dues- Part 2
Last month Lee Frost looked at the importance of declaring your photographic income to the Inland Revenue. This month he tells you how to keep accounts - and offers advice on the pros and cons of be...
Pennies make pounds
The less it costs you to produce and sell pictures, the more profit you'll have to show for your efforts. Lee Frost offers some tips on how to keep your costs to a minimum - and make use of other p...
Photograph copyright advice and tips
Few photographers have a complete understanding of copyright legislation and its implications, but once you start operating as a freelance it becomes vitally important - otherwise you could find you...
Photographic magazines
Supplying your work to publishers producing
photographic magazines is a special challenge, but the rewards can make this
well worthwhile.Words and Pictures Angelika Stehle Images of profession...
Pictures that sell 1
Whether you're shooting for a picture library, taking pictures to market yourself, or both, the art of successful stock photography lies producing images that will sell not once, but time and ...
Pictures that sell 10
Following on from last month, here are examples of some more simple images that have reaped recent sales through my pictures library.Easy stock sales Don't know about you lot, but whenever I wand...
Pictures that sell 2
Whether you're shooting for a picture library, taking pictures to market yourself, or both, the art of successful stock photography lies producing images that will sell not once, but time and time...
Pictures that sell 3
Whether you're shooting for a picture library, taking pictures to market yourself, or both, the art of successful stock photography lies producing images that will sell not once, but time and t...
Pictures that sell 4
Panned TaxiAfter shooting the famous illuminated advertising signs at Piccadilly Circus in London one evening, I decided to finish the roll of film off by taking a few slow-shutter speed panning sh...
Pictures that sell 5
Lake DistrictWith such naturally-beautiful scenery all around, it's hard not to take successful pictures in the Lake District. However, for this very reason the place gets saturated with photograp...
Pictures that sell 6
SantoriniSome of my more successful stock trips overseas have been to Mediterranean countries. Greece and Turkey in particular have shown good returns, as illustrated in previous editions of Money-...
Pictures that sell 7
Whether you're shooting for a picture library, taking pictures to market yourself, or both, the art of successful stock photography lies in producing images that will sell not once, but time and tim...
Pictures that sell 8
MaldivesInvesting in an expensive trip away to shoot stock is always risky because, despite your best intentions, there's always a chance that the picture may not sell particularly well. This can b...
Pictures that sell 9
Whether you're shooting for a picture library, taking pictures to market yourself, or both, the art of successful stock photography lies producing images that will sell not once, but tim...
Postcard photography
Submitting pictures to postcard publishers is unlikely to make you a fortune, but part and parcel of being a freelance photographer is making the most of every market at your disposal - and this one...
Protect your copyright
Here's a collection of ideas to help you reduce the chances of your work being copied and protect your income.
A plan of action
As modern technology advances, the problem of illegal copying is only g...
Scenic photography advice and tips
Over the next few months, freelance specialist Lee Frost will be offering advice on how to shoot and sell picture of specific subjects. To get the ball rolling he looks at his own favourite - sceni...
Sell to stock libraries
Have you considered selling your work to a library?
Here's some advice to get you on your wayWords and Pictures Angelika Stehle Dealing with Photo Stock Libraries is an alternative to dealing...
Selling to Magazines
Of all the markets available to freelance photographers, magazine publishing is by far the biggest and most accessible - if only due to the sheer volume of different titles in print that cater for...
Selling to Photography Magazines
In the last couple of years the number of photographic magazines in print in the UK has more than doubled - providing rich pickings for photographers with a little initiative. Lee Frost looks at how...
So, you want to be a police photographer?
Police Photographer – is there such a job?
Okay then, you just love photography and can’t get enough of all those police programmes such as CSI? So what better job could you wish for than ...
Stock Photography part 1
If you're more interested in taking pictures than selling them, putting your work with a picture library could be the answer to all your prayers. Lee Frost has been doing that for over a decade and ...
Stock Photography part 2
Rounding-off his two-part feature on shooting stock images for picture libraries, Lee Frost looks at what the libraries expect from you - and how to give them what they want. All picture libraries w...
Winning photo Competitions
Win a brand new car! Win a two week cruise in the Caribbean! Win a mountain of photographic equipment! Win a complete home darkroom! Win, win, win! These are the kind of irresistible headlines you...
