| Want to make money with digital photography? | | | | already have, produce your image or logo, arrange as |
| Want your own Photographic Business? Its not just | | | | many as you can per page and print onto transfer |
| wedding photography, read on to find out 101 other | | | | paper. Looks and feels great. |
| ways to make money and start your own business in | | | | * RUBBER STAMPS. You don't have to think of |
| the exciting world of Photography! Here is a list of | | | | rubber stamps as being just words. Any image can |
| the second 10, with an outline of the type of | | | | be reduced to its simplest form, like a pen and ink |
| business that can be made. | | | | drawing and made into a rubber stamp. There are |
| Your own digital, photography based, home business | | | | lots of rubber stamp makers online, or in the press. A |
| could start here... | | | | rubber stamp can personalise a dreary letter, or |
| * LINE DRAWINGS. Line drawings are easily made | | | | invoice. |
| from digital photos. And can be used for illustration | | | | * GIFT WRAP. Create an image,keep in mind the size |
| purposes Where before an artist was commissioned | | | | of gift its for, repeat the image. How many people |
| to produce the drawing, now you can do it with an | | | | can you think of who would like their own gift wrap? |
| image, a computer and cheap software. Cards, | | | | Private householders maybe, to go with the |
| letters, club flyers, adverts anything that lends itself | | | | calendars, cards you offer. But what of small shops, |
| to an illustration rather than a photograph, can be | | | | flower shops? Experiment with paper, legal paper, or |
| done easily at home. Look around for the market | | | | roll paper for the bigger wraps, if your printer |
| that attracts you and that you see using drawings. | | | | accepts it. Have fun. |
| * CD &DVD LABELS. CD & DVD labels are not just | | | | * CANDLE CUPS. Decorate your own votive candle |
| for the music industry you know, although if you | | | | cups with patterns printed on backlight film, make |
| know any artists! Maybe there's a rehearsal room | | | | sure to put the film on the outside of the cups. Can |
| near you, or a community centre. If so there may be | | | | be supplied as individual items, or in sets. Again |
| budding musicians, singers, performers who are | | | | personalised or how many candle selling outlets do |
| thinking of bringing out a demo disc. Don't forget the | | | | you know? Make great Christmas gifts. |
| press. But I digress, other businesses produce dvd's | | | | * PHOTO SOAP. Print out a couple of small photos, |
| and cd's to promote their products, they are looking | | | | with a suitable embellish, stick them back to back. |
| for someone to take the photo add some | | | | Protect the images with clear tape. Fill up a soap |
| imagination to it and produce their labels. What | | | | mould half full and put your photo in. Use a clear |
| industry do you know? | | | | glycerine soap mixture, fill the mould! Personalised |
| * TRANSFERS. Anything can have a photo | | | | soap, or how many small hotels, bed and breakfasts, |
| transferred onto it these days, without complicated | | | | restaurants would like their own soap? Probably at a |
| darkroom techniques, or expensive equipment. | | | | competitive price too. You could clean up here! |
| Wood, slate, phones, bags, flags, tags, placemats | | | | There are a lot of craft ideas here, with a sprinkling |
| (for cafes/restaurants), playing cards, labels, kites.You | | | | of high street businesses scaled down, thrown in. But |
| name it, it can have a photo on. And a business to | | | | rest assured this is just the tip of the photographic |
| boot (baby boots?)! | | | | opportunities available today |
| * CALENDARS. You see them in the shops, but there | | | | This is just to get your creative juices going and |
| is another huge calendar market that you don't see. | | | | your brain storming with ideas! The internet has |
| Personalised calendars, business promotion calendars, | | | | opened up a never ending need for images, of |
| special event calendars, how about wedding calendars | | | | anything and everything. Stock photography has |
| with calendars that start on the day of the wedding? | | | | changed, gone are the highly professional, large |
| Use your imagination, check the local paper, if theres | | | | format shots of models and beaches, that had to be |
| something going on, they may need a calendar! | | | | technically perfect, well they are not gone, but they |
| * PAPER MASKS. Ideal for parties, kids or otherwise! | | | | are not the only opportunities for aspiring |
| Could combine with other photo-based printed | | | | photographers who want to make a living with their |
| products for the complete party package. Or as | | | | hobby, their passion. Images that you wouldn't |
| stand alone novelty items, Boris Johnson masks? | | | | believe started life as a photograph end up |
| Halloween masks? You decide. | | | | everywhere these days and the ability to transform |
| * TIES. Ties make great presents and promotional | | | | these images is available to everyone, and in the |
| items for small businesses. Bridge clubs, golf clubs, | | | | comfort of their own home. |
| chess clubs, tennis clubs, schools, restaurants. I am | | | | Don't forget a lot of well known high street |
| sure you can add to the list. Source a cheap supply | | | | businesses started life on a kitchen table, why not |
| of ties of the appropriate colour, or they may | | | | yours? |