How do freelance photographers make money?

Method 1: Diversification of shooting categories

First, shoot the work. The first stage is three groups. After shooting 3 groups, I gained some basic experience and skills. The second stage is 30 groups. After there are basically 10 groups of works, you can try to smuggle the order (the private order here is based on your own independent pre-shooting and post-processing. If you can't do it, don't charge first, because you can't make money by finding someone else to help you with it.

When your works reach 30 groups, you can develop better. The categories of these works should not be too similar as far as possible, unless you want to take a special road, such as taking wedding photos, personal photos, private photos and so on. But if you take a single-minded road, your income will be relatively reduced, not to say that you can't, but it will be very difficult, because you need to make money while taking this road, so that you can continue to go on.

Therefore, Bian Xiao's proposal is diversified development. Take photos of any style. When a customer wants to take a photo of a certain style, you won't miss some opportunities because you haven't touched it or taken it.

Some customers will want to shoot several styles, such as Xiao Qingxin, and they will want to shoot a group of ancient styles or a group of emotions ~

If you only know one style, then you can't take photos of the other two styles, and your income will be limited.

Method 2: retouching

Of course, making money through photography is not just making money by taking pictures and videos of others. This way is too simple.

Now many people say I will do it later, but there are a large number of people. The so-called late stage only stays in simple processing such as correcting white balance, exposure and correction.

After mastering the later retouching, you can make money by retouching. ? You should have an accurate pricing when you take orders to repair drawings, accurately quote your grade value according to your own value, and don't affect your value because of other factors. Generally, the cost can be lower at first, and then the level can be gradually improved, and the price can also be gradually increased. However, at this stage, the retouching market is chaotic, many retouchers offer low prices, and mass customers will choose because of low prices. This retouching is basically a set of action filters, so the quality of the film is very general or even similar. If you want to make money, you still need to find a high-end map to repair.

You can estimate the time needed to retouch the map, and you can quote according to your own time value.

Method 3: Pick up the private bill

The first is to build a personal portfolio platform, which is relatively slow but also the most stable. You need to accumulate your works to a certain extent to have more popularity and traffic. When your popularity and traffic reach a certain level, there will be people who need to shoot or retouch pictures to contact you for cooperation.

The second is the packaging of personal fat circle to let others know what you are doing or what you can do. Just like WeChat merchants send some products every day, they just tell you that I sell this thing, but we sell technology.

The third is to cooperate with some companies or institutions with resources and then share them. This kind of sharing depends, 3/7 points or 5/5 points.

The fourth way is to join some photography groups and other circles, preferably local ones, and others can join in to exchange and learn from each other, because when you have private reservations, you will find people to cooperate in the circle. For example, shooting weddings, shooting activities and so on.

Fifth, when the technology is good, you can cooperate with some specialized photo studios and studios. Some studios have a good business, and basically all the on-the-job retouchers are too busy. You need to find some excellent retouchers to cooperate part-time.