making money from photography?

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Sell stock photos. Don't go for the trendy markets like Getty or Shutterstock, aim at Envato or the less known ones. Less money but also less competition and more attractive prices for buying folks.
If you have say, thematic photo series, offer them to website template developers on for example themeforest.net - they get them for free, you get exposure with their audience and ask if they can mention where the photos can be licensed for their clients own projects. Use your own website, to cut out the middle man, for that. Don't put them behind a massive paywall as you will be dealing with small businesses or individuals on a budget that can't afford Getty images. You will get sales if you offer quality, high res images without ridiculous licensing restrictions (only used on 1 website, don't show it to your grandmother etc...)
Offer a single image in a series as a freebie (under the creative commons license) to spread the word. This can be used for social media marketing to a massive advantage if done regularly.
These are just a few ideas, that said, timewise, it's like a full time job haha.
'Photography...it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten....' (Aaron Siskind)
Find a local stylish cafe or similar and ask them to put them on the wall framed as marked for sale.
Plenty of hipster places near me do this. They get something on the wall, you might find somebody who likes your style.
No website or sales pitch really needed
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It is an illusion that photos are made with the camera… they are made with the eye, heart and head. Henri Cartier-Bresson
Lots of film bodies, a couple of digital ones, too many lenses (mainly older glass) and a Horseman LE 5x4.
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Do selling picture prints really helps to make money?

Make money? Perhaps.
Make a profit? Less likely.
Make a living? If you're one of the lucky few in the world.
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There are innumerate companies out there preying on wannabe photographers, selling all kind of services, 'qualifications', franchises and equipment. Just giving them your email address guarantees huge volumes of spam for years and years. As has been mentioned in this thread, much of the skill will be the business/marketing side as well as the photo side.
I don't want to put anybody off (all circumstances are different), but have a plan before you start, don't rush out and spend a whole load of money without thinking about it and only show really top-notch photos in your portfolio.
I found a very inspirational book on the subject: 'My Mamiya made me a Million' by Kieth Cogman - obviously relates to the medium format film era, but most of book is about the business side of things.
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I have 2 friends who were pro photographers before the dawn of digital, or at least, high quality, printable digital. The operative word there being were. Great cameras and lenses are more readily available, and you don't have to be particularly skilled to take a decent photo now, and so the ability to shine enough to make money has gone.
Sorry to disagree, but look at any outstanding photo including those that win national or international competitions and the equipment is almost irrelevant; the effort involved in research, patience and determination are what count. Blowing several grand on equipment won’t guarantee anything. If photography isn’t your main source of income then you have the opportunity to develop, but those that have succeeded and made some money as a result have done so because of their interest or even obsession in a particular field or subject, not because they expected to cash in at the outset. Same applies to painting or any other creative field.
Estate agent photos of houses were part of the bread and butter of many pros, they were the only ones with super-wide lenses and the contacts to print the right sized wet prints to stick on the particulars. Digital changed that as there was no need for a photographer (the photos were rubbish by comparison but much cheaper).
Now every man and his dog has a DSLR, many companies get by by using an employee with a camera, quality of the shots is not important as most end up on social media, hardly worthy of excellent photography, These days it's not even a camera but a smart phone.
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balsembi
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does anybody have any ideas how to make a bit of extra cash with photography, im not really into weddings etc..
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