Teen who wants to earn money with photography? -

what are some options for selling photography of mine? I m 16 and most contests and stock websites are open only to those 18 or older, but I m really interested in trying to sell some pictures. any ideas on where to do this?|::::|the best thing to do is try to get your name out there first. i started at the same age you did, maybe even younger i think. make a small portfolio and some buisiness cards and start off with some family shoots. its the best and easiest way to make money.... another way to sell your photographs is Blurb.com. its a website to make professional photo books. this website is great because its affordable and they allow you to sell the books you make online, and they send you a check every month depending on what you sell. best part? the editing program to make the book is free! good luck!!|::::|Forget selling photos. This takes years of hard work, having literally thousands of photos to sell, sitting on a website waiting to get noticed. The stock photo market has been destroyed anyway. Is it really worth your time to sell photos for $1 each? No, it isn t. You need to get people to hire you to take photos, that s where the money is...taking photos you have no buyer for will cost you a lot of money and time and bring little back. If you re an artist, go ahead and make art. Put up a website, talk to galleries, get exhibited. Eventually if you re good you ll sell something, but you won t really make a profit,so you do it for love of art. If you want to make money, you do assignment work. What I m talking about is things like family portraits, senior portraits (of high schoolers), weddings. Those are all profitable, there is a big market for them because everyone buys these kind of photo services, and they don t require super expensive equipment like other types of professional photography (like product photography). I started doing weddings at your age. Then I went to art school, then started doing advertising photography and exhibiting my fine art photography. Today I live almost entirely from fine art sales, but it took 14 years to get here and I have suffered some terrible poverty, including being homeless for a while. I wanted to be an ARTIST though. I could have had an easy life if I had stuck to portraits and weddings. I still don t make a lot of money, but I make enough to support myself and my son (I have custody of him). We do ok now.|::::|Look around for scenic and landscapes in your neighborhood in order to capture photos for a potential calendar creation. And then go to Kinko s or Staples and check out the calendar templates and the prices for any number of calendars which you can hawk to various businesses in your town with personalized business names on these calendars. You ll discover a major market by becoming a calendar photographer. Good luck!|::::|Try Etsy.com. It s very affordable amp; as long as you have a credit card (like for a checking account) you can open your own shop. Check it out. They have a tutorial page on how to do it, what it costs, the rules, etc. My 2 little girls have their own shop and they are under 10 yrs.|::::|i dont know the answer to your question but, why don t you work part time at a studio such as Portrait Innovations, or at JCPennys or Sears Portrait studio and do the picture taking...