Wholesome Food 3 - Stock Photo
Austin Vermont
There are more ways to make money from food blogging by monetizing your blog. If you have excellent food photography, more people come to your blog, which means more page views, which means more money when you monetize your blog.
However, there are many shooters who are successful at selling photography at these fairs. I was always the only person who was selling photos of food. Most photographers were landscape shooters. So if you do have questions about this, feel free to ask. I am by no means an expert, but I can certainly tell you my experience.
Client direct work usually have smaller budgets and there is a lot more hand holding because many times the clients have no idea what they want. Sometimes they think we are also designers and that we are supposed to tell them what they need. Only a few of my jobs are client direct now. In the beginning, most of my jobs were client direct. So if you are just starting out, this will be your course for a while.
Agency Work: You are working with a person or a company who is not the end client. Many times you will never meet their client. The agency actually becomes your client in this case. This is how most ad work is handled. Usually these are bigger jobs as well and they tend to have more experience hiring food photographers.
I will be talking about this in more detail in the Food Photography Club. We will be launching again very soon so if you are not already, make sure to get on the wait list for the club as everyone on that list gets notified first.
Hi! You noticed stockfood.com. Is it really good to sell photos? How mach they usually pay for contributors? My favorite stock is shutterstock. Can you compare this two stocks (I mean regarding for revenue level)
And sorry for my English))
Hi Vadim, every stock house is different. What they pay is based on all sorts of things. How many images you have with them. Are the images exclusive for them only or are you also selling them elsewhere. You have to call these stock agencies and talk to them yourself and ask them these questions. One images can sell for $10 or for $5000. It totally depends.