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Shooting & Selling Your Photos: The Complete Guide to Making Money with Your Photography [Paperback]

Jim Zuckerman (Author)
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October 8, 2003
Turn your love of photography into a money-making business!





Get all the information you need to successfully shoot, sell, and market your photos. Inside, world-renowned photographer Jim Zuckerman provides an exciting combination of authoritative, straightforward instruction and beautiful show-and-tell photography.





Zuckerman's methods are comprehensive and easy to put into action. First, you'll learn how to create the highest quality photos:





  • Evaluate your photography, then take 5 easy steps to improve it

  • Pick powerful, interesting, and vivid subjects

  • Use dramatic lighting and high-quality backgrounds

  • Juxtapose colorful subjects for maximum impact

  • Choose the best format for your work–film vs. digital




Then you'll master the secrets of business success:




  • Find subjects and themes that sell

  • Create inexpensive, yet striking, print and online portfolios

  • Establish yourself on the internet through websites and online promotions

  • Execute dynamic advertising, direct mail and publicity campaigns

  • Get noticed with creative, professional submissions

  • Put together a portfolio that showcases you strengths–fine art, wildlife, advertising, magazine, or stock photography




But that's not all! Zuckerman also shows you how to sell your work at art shows, join a stock photography agency, prepare winning submissions–even self-publish your work and develop a product line.





Turn your dream into reality and start making money today–Jim Zuckerman shows you how to make it happen!


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About the Author

Jim Zuckerman is the author of Digital Effects and Perfect Exposure. He is a contributing editor for Peterson's Photographic Magazine and has been published in markets worldwide, including Omni, Conde Nast Traveler, and Outdoor and Travel Photographer. He lives in Northridge, California.

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  • Paperback: 144 pages
  • Publisher: Writers Digest Books; 1 edition (October 8, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 158297215X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1582972152
  • Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #62,375 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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35 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Introduction, July 4, 2005
This review is from: Shooting & Selling Your Photos: The Complete Guide to Making Money with Your Photography (Paperback)
This is a great introduction to selling photography by one of the very best in the business. Jim Zuckerman is very diverse in his stock photography subject matter and that diversity shows through in the wide range of knowledge he shares in this book. The best coverage is on selling photography at art shows and advice on submitting article and calendar proposals to publishers. If you're specifically interested in stock agencies, I highly recommend Lee Frost's Photos That Sell (see my review on that book). Mr. Zuckerman's advice on stock libraries is a good introduction but Lee Frost devotes most of his book to the topic. The photography in the book is of course wonderful, but I would have liked to have seen the author share more information about which images were his best sellers, how many times each image has sold and where, and other details which Lee Frost shares in this book in many cases. However, this is very solid introduction to selling photography and I recommend it.
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41 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good overview: what you need to go pro, May 17, 2004
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Jim Zuckerman's book provides a great coverage of all the steps involved with becoming a professional photographer. You'll learn what gear you need, potential markets and needs, presentation, etc. The book gives you a lot of ideas on how to get started as a pro. However, the book does have two drawbacks that prevent me from giving it 5 stars.

- It's very negative on digital, which I find suprising given the book's publication date. The reasons given for why film is better than digital are silly, in my opinion; stories include pictures mysteriously disappearing from cards and cards being corrupt. My advice: buy good gear and practice with it before you shoot it for real. I've used a DSLR for 6 months. I spent the money to buy a good camera body and a professional card, and it has worked well for me in conditions ranging from 80F to -20F, from high to low moisture. Digital is no different than film: practice, make sure everything works, learn your gear's limits... then use it.

- The book doesn't explain the photographs. One of the things I like in other photography books (including others by Jim Zuckerman) is that pictures have captions telling you the camera body, the lens, the film, the exposure length, the f stop, and so on. Sadly, this book doesn't share that information.

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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Great photos used to illustrate good advice, March 11, 2005
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I found this book very informative. I don't really think its negative on digital in fact he writes with a pretty even hand on film and digital. My favorite part is the that not only does he show some photos that have sold at stock agencies, he goes onto to explain why they sold, and to compare to them to a similiar photo and explain why one sold and the other was rejected. It offers a lot of insight into the mind of stock photo buyers as well as some inside tips on getting in on the business.
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WHEN I DECIDED TO LEAVE MY MEDICAL studies and become a professional photographer, I had no idea what I was doing. Read the first page
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