PHOTOGRAPHY

Photography is one of the world’s most popular hobbies and professions. We use it to document family milestones, capture beauty, reveal the ugliness of war, stalk celebrities, and so on. The list is endless. Photography has changed the world in so many ways and has aided in film and television and other types of media as well.

Photography is a word derived from the Greek words photos ("light") and graphein ("to draw").The word was first used by the scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel in 1839. It is a method of recording images by the action of light, or related radiation, on a sensitive material.History of photography is method of recording the image of an object through the action of light or related radiation, on a light-sensitive material. It was first used in the 1830s BY Henry Fox Talbot.

Today photography has become a global cacophony of freeze-frames. Millions of pictures are uploaded every minute. Correspondingly, everyone is a subject, and knows it—any day now we will be adding the unguarded moment to the endangered species list. It’s on this hyper-egalitarian, quasi-Orwellian, all-too-camera-ready “terra infirma” that National Geographic’s photographers continue to stand out. Why they do so is only partly explained by the innately personal choices (which lens for which lighting for which moment) that help define a photographer’s style. Instead, the very best of their images remind us that a photograph has the power to do infinitely more than document. It can transport us to unseen worlds.

How to make money from photography?

Direct Sales – If you can build a very loyal and close nit community of people in your town, college, or place of work you might be able to generate sales in this manner. Also, many local coffee shops will allow you to hang your work on their walls for a commission on sales (this is how I got my first print sale). It benefits them in that they get free art to hang on their walls and you get to have a lot of eyes on your photographs.

Online Sales – Smugmug and Zenfolio are the two names that come to mind when I think about online sales . There are some other places as well like Etsy, Fine Art America and Redbubble which don’t offer as many features and typically will take a larger percentage of your sale. Again while all of these places will allow you to host your photographs, offer shopping cart options, and even print and ship the photo to your client they won’t promote it for you so we’re back to the first point above about needing a fan base to sell to.

Here are some of online photography portfolio:

Photoshelter

Photoshelter is one of the most popular platforms for building photography websites and online portfolios. The site allows you to control the layouts, fonts and images of your portfolio with ease and mobility.

Orosso

Orosso is a portfolio building tool that allows its members to build professional and smart portfolios and maintain them easily.. In a matter of minutes you can have your portfolio created in a flash and highly customizable towards your looks and requirement.

Foliolink

Foliolink is an online portfolio-building tool specifically for photographers and artists who want to build professional portfolios and sell their work online effortlessly. It doesn’t require any knowledge of HTML or CSS coding to get the portfolio created

Zenfolio

Zenfolio is an online tool that helps you make amazing online portfolios fast and painlessly. Whether you are photographer looking for building a stunning portfolio or a photographer serious about selling your work online, Zenfolio is the right choice for you.

FolioHD

FolioHD is a self-hosted portfolio platform for photographers, artists, architects, models and designers. They offer essential features to build a website in a simple way and according to the plan you register for.

Best photography websites are:

Chris+Lynn

Ben Chrisman

Jonas Peterson

Jason Groupp

Mark

Kitty & Craig Fritz

Sean & Melanie McLellan

CU Photography

Anyone can be a photographer. Anyone can use a camera and take a picture of whatever it is they want. What is wonderful about photography is that it is easy for anyone to do but it is definitely a true art form and a beautiful, exciting medium to come across.

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