Top 10 money-making outdoor photos of people - Your First Customer Series, Part 2

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It may take some practice on yourself or friends and family, but below you will find the top 10 money-making outdoor photographs you can make of and sell to your portraiture clients as a newly-minted part time photographer.

I'm featuring outdoor portraits here because you can shoot them with just the camera in your hands, and you can shoot them just about anywhere, from a local park or playground to your own back yard.

Aim to start shooting about one hour before sunset. This will give you nice evening light to play with.

For your lighting, you want your subject facing toward the sun. If the sunlight is right in their eyes and they're squinting, move them into some shade but still have them face toward the sun. If you're lucky, you'll get a passing cloud in front of the sun or have overcast skies to act as a big diffuser.

I'll be adding some more in-depth video and photo tutorials for these photos in the future, but for now, use the below guidelines to begin shooting salable portraits of your clients.

Let's visit the great outdoors!

The Headshot

A good headshot fills the frame with your subject's face, preferably from mid-chest or shoulders up. Zoom your camera in all the way and walk away from your subject until they are properly framed. By zooming in, you're reducing your depth of field, which will give you a nice, soft background.

The biggest part of the headshot is a natural expression (preferably a candid smile or laugh between funny faces) and good lighting. If your lighting is too harsh or too far to the side, you'll get nasty and unflattering shadows across the eyes and face. Make sure the eyes always look fabulous.

Don't have to worry about background too much with these, since almost all of the frame will be filled with the subject. As always, try to have a complimentary and simple background. Avoid busy or clashing backgrounds at all costs.

Mix this up with a nice pair of sunglasses and you can get another set of fun and stylish photos. Once you've got what you like from a standing-back, zoomed-in position, zoom all the way out, get close, and do some wide-angle headshots. Make sure your background is clean and complimentary, lift your camera overhead and shoot down at wild angles, and have fun with it.

It's digital: go crazy!


                       

           

                 

The 3/4 (Three-Quarters) Shot

The 3/4 Shot goes up from your subject's thighs, waist, or torso, including arms and hands. We'll introduce a bit of body posing with this portrait.

Make sure your lighting looks good on your subject (I'll say this every single time - learn to look at the light and shadows on your subject's face before you even lift your camera to take a shot), then have them "just slightly" push their shoulders back and arch their backs. If they suddenly look like they sat on a cactus, have them loosen it up a bit.

Where your subject's hands will go depends on what they're wearing. Thumbs can go in jean pockets for a Western look, arms can cross for a powerful stance, hands can go to hips (with a little hip swish to the side) for a more model-esque pose, hands can go in jacket pockets if they're wearing one, etc.

Look for something natural and fitting: unless you're breaking the ice and being funny, cowboys shouldn't swish their hips and khaki-wearers shouldn't hook their thumbs in their pockets.

Women going for a model look can do the hip thing, put hands in their back pockets, bring their hands up to mess with their hair, etc. You can turn most women loose with posing in a 3/4 shot and they'll do fine on their own.

Your background is going to be more visible in this shot, so make sure it doesn't hurt the image. If it's loud, noisy, overbearing, super busy, or just not complimentary to the photo, change positions. Have your subject lean against a tree if you must, but maintain a clean background.

This photo set should also be shot from a distance, zoomed in. Feel free to introduce some sunglasses and/or wide angle shots if you like, but since we're shooting more body this time, the final impact will be less pronounced.


                       

                       

                 

The Close-up Shot

Not for the faint of heart or those with particularly poor skin.

The close up shot is a twice-as-close headshot, focusing greatly on the eyes, filling almost every inch of the frame with your subject's face.

Definitely step back and zoom in to take this photo. Wide-angles up close will exaggerate features well beyond attractiveness. That said, if you have a funky subject, go for it - never let your own snobbery of how a portrait should look take precedence over what the client wants and will buy.

When you're this close, make sure you aren't casting a shadow (even faint) on your subject.

When you like the lighting on your subject's face, let them give you several expressions, and play to their best features. If someone has bad teeth, aim for closed-mouth smiles and dramatic or intense facial expressions. If they have a great smile, start cracking jokes. If they have amazing eyes, get super close on those. If they have great hair, or if their hair is a big part of their style, be sure it frames or comes forward a bit to accent their face.

Since a close-up is more of an artsy and intimate image, play around with having your client look away from the camera, pose their head to the left or right and have them look both toward you and away, and if they're the jocular type, have them make some funny faces.

Good close-ups make great MySpace and Facebook defaults.


     

The Layback Shot

Find something for your subject to lay back on. I'm lucky to have a great spot on a tree at my city park where my subjects can lay back comfortably, but you can use a flat surface like a patch of grass or a park bench.

You'll have your subject lay down, and turn/lean their head back to look at you. As always, make sure your lighting looks good, and if their faces aren't catching even light, rotate them until they look great.

Have your subject arch their back a bit to make it easier for them to look back to you. Take your time and get a natural pose here - if your subject is straining their neck too much or too twisted around, their discomfort will show up in the final photo.

Hands can go down the side into/around pockets, their far hand can go up behind their head, and the near hand can stay down, go in a jacket pocket, or reach up to grip a lapel.

This mostly looks good as a dramatic photo, but as with every photo, try to work a range of expressions in. Go crazy and cull out the misses later when you're on the computer.


           

The Bench Shot

A good park bench is a great prop for posing. Your subject can sit, stand, or lay on it, and any which way, it creates visually interesting horizontal lines in the image.

Work your angles and expressions, primarily focusing on straight-on shots capturing the long side of the table or bench. Overhead shots can be good here as well to create some angled lines through your image.


                       

                 

The Standing On Something Shot

I may not be creative with naming these shots, but this is one of the more dramatic photos you'll take of your subject.

Find something that your subject can stand on, preferably a something that creates a statuesque appearance. A chair, a rock or cement wall, a pillar of some sort, a table, a tree stump, whatever's available.

Go for dramatic and goofy poses and expressions here. Try to get your camera down around your subject's foot level and shoot up at them. Primarily do this zoomed in, but try some wide angles as well. Dramatic poses should give your subject the appearance of a statue on display, and goofy stuff can include flamingo one-legged stances and bird-in-flight pantomimes.



The Wide Shot

You'll have to do some hunting and practice your landscape photographer's eye to find a good place, but seek out some good scenery to do a landscape-style photo with your subject as a small but highlighted feature in the shot.

A tree that overhangs a hillside, a select tree out of a row of a dozen, a lone tree in a field (can you tell I shoot around trees a lot?), a hillside or field covered in green grass or flowers... You get the idea. Get in a position where you can shoot a wide-angle photo of this beautiful landscape or natural feature, and pose your subject in a key point.

If photographing the overhanging tree, place your subject in the frame created by the branches which dip down at their tips. If shooting the lone tree, seat your subject at the side of the tree, or stand them in front of it. If you can shoot from a high position, lay your subject in that field of flowers and let them be the unique break, and thus focal point, in the pattern the landscape creates.

Your subject will be very small in this photo, so pose them dramatically enough that they don't appear as just sticks or squares in the photo. Extend the pose enough to create more interesting shapes. Make them take up some space around them.


                       

                       

           

The Funky Angle Shot

Go wide-angle and shoot from an unusual angle on your subject. I love to shoot overhead for these, but you can lay down and shoot from ground level, or just get close and twist the camera so your subject takes up the frame corner-to-corner instead of top-to-bottom.

This is a playful type of shot, so feel free to play around with your subject to get a memorable image.


                       

The Down The Road Shot

Roads, not unlike the done-to-death train track, create nice lines in an image.

Place your subject in the middle of a road (do mind the traffic), or off to one side or the other, and look for a shot which includes the bold graphic element of the road and the lines on the road. Have your subject take a bold stance if in the middle of the road, or have them turn toward the road if they're posed to the side. If to the side, place your subject in the left or right side of the frame, with the road filling the rest.

After you nail your straight-on shots, do some funky angle shots and do some overheads. The bold lines that roads create will, if captured properly, give your portrait a big boost in style.


                       

The Jump Shot

Ahh, The Jump Shot - a must for nearly every subject I photograph, in the studio or outdoors. Seniors, brides, children...none are exempt from the coolness of this photo.

Find a place where you can get below your subject's feet; the crest of a hill, a low wall, whatever works for you.

Lay down. Get extra low for this shot. The lower you are, the higher it will appear your subject jumps, even if they are notably sans "ups."

Get some space between you and your subject, but stay close enough that you can shoot zoomed out for a nice wide-angle effect.

For the jump, tell your subject to get as high as they can on the jump, and have them go all-out cheerleader. Guys and gals both should throw their hands up and kick their heels back. Big laughs and wide-mouthed smiles look great here.

Snap your photo at the apex of their jump. If you're shooting with a point-and-shoot, you'll have to play with your timing to make this happen. Pre-focus on your subject to reduce the delay.

Watch the background in this one - your subject should have nothing buy sky behind them. If there are trees or buildings disturbing your subject's blue-sky background, the flying effect won't be as strong.

This is always a fun photo to make and show to clients, and one that often sells as a big print.


           

Bonus: The Prop Shot

I have a couple of bonus shots for you, separate from the rest because they involved props.

The appropriately-named Prop Shot involves the inclusion of just about anything that your subject will pose with - a pet, sports gear, hobby gear (such as a camera!), etc.

Whatever the prop is, your first priority is to show your subject interacting with the prop, and your second is to have the subject interact with the camera at the same time.

If your subject wants to pose with their dog, they're holding the dog in their arms and the pup starts licking their faces, great photos will be had. If you can catch your subject laughing and looking at the camera while this is going on, it will make an even better photo.

If your subject wants a shot of them swinging on a swing, get a nice low angle down and to the side of them so you can catch them at the top of their forward swing; if you can get them to look back/down at you while laughing or smiling, even better.

Interacting with the camera, in any case, is secondary to them interacting naturally with their prop of choice. If you're doing a profile shot of a subject kissing their pet potbelly pig, the mid-laugh smoochy shot is going to be far and away better than then snuggling and smiling at the camera shot. Make them both, but know which one will sell more prints.


                 

Bonus: The Car Shot

A car is really just a big prop, but because of its size and usually very personal relationship with its driver, it gets special mention here.

A car says a lot about its owner. A beat up old truck can lend as much character to a portrait as a slicked-up Porsche can add style to another.

Get photos of your subject in the driver's seat, leaning against the car James Dean style, sitting on the hood or tailgate, do a Layback Shot on the hood, ask for stories about the driver's experience with the car and then try to recreate that experience. If they rebuilt the engine, get photos of them under the hood poking around, or slid underneath the car with just their legs sticking out. Find the connection between the driver and the car and make some fun and memorable photos which capture that connection.



Practice makes perfect

Phew! That's 2,443 words of ideas to get you kick-started taking money-making photographs of your portraiture clients. Start practicing what you've learned above and build your own set of favorite money-making photos so you never have to "make it up as you go along" unless you want to.

Keep in mind, this is by no means an in-depth or exhaustive list; as you grow as an artist, and expand your repertoire of favorite images to make of clients, you'll start to enter a flow state when you're shooting and go naturally and easily from one pose and place to the next.

In the near future you'll find here on PartTimePhoto.com some fun and dead-simple video and photo tutorials to help you more visually learn to make the most of these photo opportunities.

Next Steps

  • Take a drive around your town or neighborhood and explore the outdoor areas which would be ripe for good photos. Look for parks and playgrounds especially. Walk around your own back yard and see what little nooks would be great to take portraits in.
  • Grab a friend or family member and practice, practice, practice. Print out or download this list to your iPhone and setup by setup, practice each photo, and practice getting good expressions from your subjects. Remember, you're a working photographer now - let your guinea pig subject know that they can get with you to view the photos at a later date and buy what they love.
  • Have fun practicing and have fun on your shoots. You will make far better photos, and your subjects will enjoy the experience a great deal more. Remember, your art will take time to grow, but your ability to provide clients with a fantastic experience lies in your hands right now.
  • Hold a practice viewing session with your guinea pig subject and look at your take together. See which images get the best reaction from them. See if they're interested in buying any of them. Take note of what really floats their boat, and keep this in mind for your upcoming brainstorm session - these are the photos that you want to lean toward making with future clients.
  • Check out the work of Flickr artists from their outdoor portraiture sessions.
  • Brainstorm session: Write down your thoughts on which photo setups gave you your best images, both artistically to you and financially to your subject. Those photos that they were really happy with are what you'll want to be sure you shoot every time with your clients. File this in your Brainstorms folder.
  • If you're interested in maximizing your financial and enjoyment benefit from your part time photography business, feel free to click the "Subscribe" link at the top of any page of this web site. I'm very thankful for your readership!
  • How would you classify some of your favorite outdoor portraits? Do they fit in any of the above categories? If not, how would you classify them? What have you learned is your best-seller image? Leave a comment below or drop me an e-mail.

How to make money as a part time portrait photographer - Startup Series, Part 1

The Part Time Photographer Startup Series:

Part 1: How to make money as a part time portrait photographer

Part 2: What you need to start a part time photography business

Part 3: The legalities of starting a part time photography business

Part 4: What does a successful part time photographer look like?

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The introductions are out of the way, so let's get to some meat and taters of becoming a part time photographer.

The business model I'm going to use throughout PartTimePhoto.com is portraiture: children's, high school seniors, engagement, bridals, couples, family, maternity, and baby photography. I believe it's the easiest to imitate, both as a business and artistic endeavor, until you are able to further develop your talents and become an innovator.

Most photographers start out wanting to be artists. They get a digital camera, show their photos to friends and family, and get told "oh wow, you take amazing photos! You should be a professional photographer!"

Artistry and innovation will come with experience and self development. Right now, I want to concentrate on giving you the tools of knowledge you need to practice making saleable portraits and getting paid for them. Art, bless its heart, will come in due time.

Business success will enable your artistic success. Once you get your first few paid shoots under your belt, you'll have some money to play with - what you do with that money is your business.

That said, investing money and time back into the development of your business will only make your business easier to make money with.

  • Buying better camera equipment will improve the technical quality of your images and open doors to more advanced portraiture techniques like bounce flash and small depth of field.
  • Buying better computer equipment will make the post-processing part of your job more efficient, saving time and frustration.
  • Investing in photography education, through books, online classes, webinars, in-person workshops, professional memberships, magazines, and other training will greatly improve your art, which gives you a much more valuable product. The better your art, the easier it is to get clients, and to get clients to pay what you want.
  • An investment in good marketing is the easiest way to multiply your volume of business, such as through Google AdSense, a more professional web site, graphic design for a new logo and visual identity, or local advertising via print, radio, television, direct mail, mall displays, etc.

I will get into all these aspects of growing your photography business with time. For now, I want to brief you in summary as to how you're going to make money as a part time portrait photographer.

How to make money as a part time portrait photographer

First, we're going to keep costs low - in fact, if you're reading this, odds are you already have everything you'll need - a camera, computer, Internet access. We're going to pull a Dave Ramsey and only buy what we can afford - we're only going to spend money when we make money to spend. We're going to use the equipment you have, open source software, and free online tools to shoot, process, sell, and market.

Second, we're going to make it nigh impossible for people to turn you down: no session fees, no minimum orders, buy what you love. That is basically the tagline of my own photography business, and it works just as well during the startup phase as it does 10 years down the road.

Third, we're going to sell exactly five products: hi-res digital files, 4x6's, 5x7's, 8x10's, and sheets of wallets (8) - nothing over $20. We will expand our product line as money is made and you're able and desirous to invest in better equipment.

We're also going to practice three principles of good art and good business:

  • Occam's Razor - To paraphrase, to do with more what can be done with less is vanity. Simplicity in learning and simplicity in practice is how I will help you grow from enthusiast to paid part time professional photographer.
  • Kaizen - The Japanese philosophy that small improvements over time create huge advantages. We're going to start where you are, wherever that may be, and improve from there. There is no disadvantage or ignorance in your life that we cannot overcome on our path to you making money with your photography.
  • Patton's Law - A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow. You're never going to take the first step on this journey if you don't accept that you're not perfect. You won't say the perfect things to a client, you won't have the perfect marketing materials, you won't take the perfect set of pictures. Start today with what you have and what you know and we will find ways to improve in some small way every single day.

One of the best parts of the model you will follow with this plan is that it's guilt-free and no-risk, for you and your clients. They don't pay a dime until they see their photos, they only buy and spend what they want, and you make money when your clients walk away with photos they are happy with. There is immense wiggle room to screw up and learn from your mistakes, so there's no pressure.

Use what you have, in equipment and knowledge, and make small improvements every day. With time, you will have a shooting calendar filled with ecstatic clients and your only limit on income will be in choosing how much and when you wish to work.

Been there, done that - now let's you and I do it together.

Tomorrow in our Startup Series, Part 2, I'll go over what equipment you'll need to get started with your photography business.

Next Steps

  • Visit the low-fi portraiture gallery on Flickr.
  • Brainstorm session: From the above gallery, write down all the ways you see photographers making good portraits with inexpensive, low-tech gear. Add to your Brainstorms folder.
  • Read PartTimePhoto.com daily for all the delicious details of how to make good money through part time photography. To make it easy, scroll to the top of any page on this site and click on the "Subscribe" link.
  • What have friends and family told you about your photographs? Have they said you should take up professional photography? Leave a comment below, e-mail me, or call or text me at 830-688-1564.

Your source for making money as a part time photographer

So who am I to give you advice on how to make money as a part time photographer?

My name is James Taylor.

I own Outlaw Photography of Bandera, Texas.

I shoot almost entirely portraits; seniors, children, brides, couples, families. My wife shoots maternity and baby photos.

I fell bass ackwards into professional photography over 12 years ago. I landed a job as a photojournalist with my hometown newspaper, and as people saw my photos in the paper, they began asking if I also did family portraits. One good paid photo shoot led to the next, and I continued to do off-and-on professional work until I launched Outlaw Photography 'officially' in 2005. Since then, I've worked hard to improve my art and my business acumen while learning to balance a full time day job, part time photography job, and life.

Life for me includes my better half Jacklen and three young kiddos, McCayla (7), Canon (4), and the newest addition, Athena Corinna (celebrating one year in November 2011). Yes, Canon, as in my son is named after my preferred camera manufacturer. But that's a story for another day.

I have been blessed with a great deal of success as a part time professional photographer over the years, and after a decade, I've hit a stride which now allows me the chance to share this success with others. Success to me is happy clients, happy family, happy self. A big part of the latter for me is giving back, which is what I hope to do here at PartTimePhoto.com.

After years and years of studying the art, business, and industry of photography online and here in the real world, I've learned that the people making the transition from unpaid amateurs to part time professionals is a massive, confused, underserved, underappreciated community.

That's about to change. Drastically.

You generally have three levels of photographers:

  • Amateurs and enthusiasts who shoot for fun and don't care about making money off their work (Hi Uncle Joe!)
  • Amateurs interested in making money with their photography (that's you!)
  • Professionals actively earning good pay for their time

Certainly there are, as the supermodels of ModelMayhem call them, "GWC's" or "Guys With Cameras"; you have insanely talented amateurs and students all over Flickr; and you have a wide range of professionals from starvings artists to the Vincent Laforets and Anne Geddeses of the world.

This entire web site is targeted squarely at that Middle Category: amateurs, enthusiasts, students, part-timers, stay at home dads, unfulfilled day job moms, teenagers looking for summer work, etc.

I'm living that dream right now, and have been for many years. It is fun, it is stress-free, it is a perfect creative outlet, it's a great way to meet interesting people, and it pays well. It took a lot of trial and a lot of error to learn how to achieve that sweet-spot balance between art, business, and life.

I hope that through sharing here on PartTimePhoto.com the whole of my experience in this journey, I will help others achieve the same success I have as a part time professional photographer.

Here's some boring background bio info for you, just to show you how small-town I am and that it's possible to be successful anywhere:

James Taylor's "If I can do it..." Profile:

Me: Outlaw Photographer James Taylor.

Born in Tarpley, Texas, population: 30.

Graduated from, got a job in, and started part time photography business in Bandera, Texas, population: 957.

Still working for the same newspaper over a decade down the road.

Still a happy part time photographer.

Won gobs of big fish, small pond journalism awards, for sports photography, feature photography, news writing, page layout and design, etc. Voted "Best Photographer in Bandera County (population < 20,000) in 2007, 2008." Most recently picked up my biggest contest win yet, a first-place sports photography award from the Texas Press Association.

Everything I know about being a successful part time photographer, I look forward to sharing here on PartTimePhoto.com. It will take time and plenty of writing, but I truly believe you have the capability to better your life and the lives of those around you through the art and business of part time photography.

It's benefited my life, and if you so desire, it can benefit yours.

Next Steps

  • Surf over to Flickr and find three photographers whose portraiture work inspires you. Bookmark their photo streams. Contact each one: say by phone, e-mail, or picture comment, "I am an aspiring professional photographer and your work on Flickr is really inspirational. May I contact you once in a while to talk about photography?" You'll learn that the most successful photographers are often the most open to helping you.
  • Brainstorm session: make a list of all the people - famous, celebrity, or otherwise - with whom you would love to do a portrait session. From the President to a favorite comedian to Grandma. Save in your Brainstorms folder.
  • If you're down with the clown until you're dead in the ground and would like to continue benefiting from the articles posted to this blog, please feel free to click the "Subscribe" button at the top of any page of this site.
  • Who inspired you to take up photography, and then take it to the next level by doing paid work? Leave a comment below, e-mail me, or call or text me at 830-688-1564.

Want to make money as a part time photographer?

If you're here, you know you're here, and that's good enough for me.

If you have a few hours a week, access to a camera, and a hint of gumption, it's my goal to help you make money as a part time photographer.

Perhaps:

  • You have an unfulfilling day job and want to stretch your legs as a professional photographer
  • You have a good day job that doesn't pay enough, and you want some extra money to pay down debts, save up, or play with as fun money
  • You're a stay-at-home mom or dad and would like to earn some money working part-time with a set-your-own flexible schedule

Whatever drives your desire to explore the world of part-time professional or ProAm (professional-amateur) photography, it's my own desire to help you be successful.

There are metric tons of information online about starting your own business and becoming a better photographer. Where I saw a need was while surfing photography forums and seeing so many men and women asking best-guess questions about how to get started. You don't know what you don't know, right?

In the same threads, I saw a lot of full time professional photographers give half-hearted advice and plenty of negative feedback.

"It's not as easy as it looks."

"Your photos are horrible; perhaps you should find another job."

"The market is saturated with amateurs like you killing the industry."

"If you're not doing it full time, and you don't have my expenses, and you don't charge what I do, you're not a real professional and you're taking food out of the mouths of my babies."

To which I indelicately respond, "BS."

Anyone who has studied business will tell you there are many, many markets and demographics for any given product range. Professional photography is no different from car sales or widget sales or interior decorating.

From "budget" to "luxury," there's a lengthy scale of customers seeking different levels of service at different prices.

Everybody has to start somewhere, every journey begins with the first step, and it's my goal through PartTimePhoto.com to help you transition and grow into the ProAm or Part Time Professional Photography business. I want to help you make money with photography.

I have no love for overcomplication, hidden agendas, withholding information, snobbery, and bait and switch games. I like simple instructions, "do this this way" clarity, and obvious next steps. Reading this blog and learning to make money with your photography shouldn't be an exercise in existential thinking.

On a daily basis, you'll find within these pixelated walls my best advice in developing your artistic and business skills to make good money for your time. I'll give you concrete examples, walkthroughs, visual examples, step-by-step tutorials, equipment buying advice, marketing pieces and projects, a hell of a lot of encouragement, and a holistic approach to doing good business that serves your own life as much as your customers.

Who am I to give such advice? Tune in tomorrow for my self-indulgent bio, but all you really need to know is that my name is James Taylor, I own Outlaw Photography in the rural town of Bandera, Texas, and I've enjoyed the life benefits of part time professional photography for over 10 years now.

Next Steps

You'll find that I am very big on clear, specific Next Steps. David Allen's system of Getting Things Done is a brilliant one, and one of the biggest things I got out of his book was the practice of establishing Next Steps.

I think the two biggest things missing from most instructional-type web sites are real world examples and well-defined Next Steps, so you'll find plenty of both here on PartTimePhoto.com. At the end of every article, I'll provide one or several Next Steps to give you an exact idea of what you can do at that point to better your part time photography business.

Here are today's Next Steps:

  • Take a deep breath and let go of any preconceived fears or doubts you have about becoming a part time professional photographer. Shake them haters off.
  • Get a sticky note or piece of paper and tape - write down the three biggest ways being a successful part time photographer would improve your life. Put this piece of paper on your monitor or somewhere you will look at it on a daily basis.
  • Grab a piece of paper or open up your computer's note pad and brainstorm - this will be a Next Step for nearly every article I post to PartTimePhoto.com. I cannot overemphasize the value of a good brain dump, pouring your ideas out on paper or to a text file. Today's topic: Envision how your life would be different if you could earn some money through part time photography. No idea is too stupid or simple - write everything down. Spend several minutes on this. Try to build off every item you write down. Don't do it any specific order, just get it out on the page. Grab a folder for your paper or create folder on your desktop in which to place these brainstorm sessions.
  • If this all sounds like a good thing for your life, please feel free to click on the "Subscribe" link at the top of any page on this site.
  • What experiences have you had in your search for information and inspiration in becoming a part time photographer? Leave a comment below, e-mail me, or call or text me at 830-688-1564.

Congratulations - you have taken the first steps toward enjoying the lifestyle of a part time photographer!