When “Work from Home” Increasing My Daily Producivity Value,
Aloooha! my name is Bima and thank you for visiting my blog, what I know is there are so many people getting stuck during lockdown period within a tagline “Work from Home” during this Corona virus crisis. All of us are sad during this time and I know that global economic decreasing like a roller coaster and only the strongest company with a clear vision and determination will survive.
By the way I working as a wedding photographer since 2009 and Corona virus seriously make my wedding photography business seems to be chaos because no one will be able to do destination photoshoot like what Aling and friends had on Hong Kong winter session or Denise and Joel had for their pre wedding in Maldives.
If you working on the same industry as me or any other services business than please…just be strong! because I believe that this crisis will goes by. What we need right now is a bit take a breath and thinking about what’s next and what improvement that we must do to still working and earning money during this crisis.
It’s All About Creativity!
Become a person with tons of creativity seems to be a gift but honestly not so many people have this ability on their own and the worse thing that I could say now is, you gonna ‘die’ if you don’t have it during this time. You might know that the way of us to work now is quite different comparing back in 90’s when we saw our parents work from 9 am and back home around 5 or 6 pm than got a monthly salary every 25th or in the early month.
It’s totally different my friend, and that’s because now we live in an internet and digital era. In other side if you could consider this situation as a benefit than you gonna find so many ways to earn money even just by lay down on your bed and this is still talking about unlimited creativity.
On the photo above I took a sunset photo of my couple on the coral nearby the resort, it’s Jasmine and Kevan’s wedding, a lovely Singaporean couple that asking me to shoot for their prestigious wedding in Bali. But do you think I’m gonna stuck when there is nothing to shoot during this Corona crisis? No I’m Not….it’s still fun to work on photography during this period too.
By the way do you face the same situation right now and don’t know what to do?
Calm down guys you’re not alone but don’t give up because this article will share about this case.
What We Talk Here is About Selling Your Photos Online
During this lockdown period, all government in this entire planet encourage their citizen to stay at home and ask them to not going in the club, celebrate a wedding or any moment that crowded by people. You might read that even PornHub open their premium channel in Italy just to make their citizen enjoy to stay at home but listen to me, this is such brilliant marketing because during this time so many people will need information and entertainment for sure and this is what you gonna work for.
Since 2 years ago I stumble my self to put so deep and learn about how to monetize my photographs by sell it online and get the royalty from every single sales that somebody made. What I know for sure that photographs will consist of information because every news, blog, or article will definitely need a photos to make their readers come and read it all till the end. In fact there are so many reasons why photographs are really matters both in digital and printed display.
Why You Have to Consider to Monetize Your Photos?
Are you seriously buy those thousand dollar photo gears just to get cool on Instagram?
Forget it!
Being so cool on Instagram or Facebook is just make you too proud of your self but sometimes this feeling will bring you down. In this digital era you must have a smartphone or cheap mirrorless camera at home while in the same time you always taking photo no matter for selfie, during holidays, shoot something that you love or simply creating a fine art photos but I sure that you must have a goals that you want to achieve by having those thousand of photographs on your computers.
Just to give you an impression about how to use your photographs better than I will break down some benefit of using your photos.
Photos Impress People
If you love blogging like me than you will put some photos on your blog to give a better impression to all readers that visiting your blog. It is true that photos will describe your article better than if you simply write hundred to thousand words without any single photos on it.
In fact, people love an impression!
No matter what kind of blog that you running at this time, it could be an automotive, interior design, or cooking but you still need a photographs to give your reader a right perspective about the topic that you are trying to share.
Look at this picture below,
When I want to tell my readers about this cheap food in Singapore that I bought than it is impossible to give an impression without showing the photo it self. In fact when someone who read my blog want to buy the same meals like mine, consist of rice, steam broccoli, and sweet fried chicken that cost for SIN$4 than by seeing the real photo like that will seriously give them a better impression comparing if I’m not showing the real proof.
Thousand of Medias Need Your Photos
Do you think that all medias in this globe only use photos from their contributors?
No they’re not!
What they think is about simplicity and efficiency!
Some big companies like National Geographic, CNBC, or The Strait Time might have their full time contributors on each country but how about the others which don’t have a contributors but still need a photographs for their news?
Yesss……they gonna buy the photos for sure and this gonna be your unlimited potential income!
When you know that there is a chance for you to earn income with unlimited amount than this is the best time for you to do more further for improving your hobby or your expertise into something bigger. If you see the screenshots below is my image from previous Denise’s pre wedding in Maldives. I captured hundred of photographs during that session and sell few of them as a stock photography where people or company around the world are able to buy it and deliver royalty to my studio, it’s brilliant idea!
Sell Your Photos on Shutterstock
So what I’m doing since 3 years ago about improving my photography abilities while work from home is selling my photos online and one of the best platform in this planet is Shutterstock.
I sign up as a Shutterstock contributor and sell my wedding, portrait, travel and food photos that I got during my projects than get all the royalties when people love it and make a download.
The fact is both me and Nina are love traveling and I sure that you do so!
In a primary activity I work as a wedding photographer which allow me to fly around the country and so overseas than nowadays photography already brought me travel to Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Srilanka, Macao, and Maldives.
If you ever know how wedding photographer work on their session than generally people like me is only spend for few hours like what I had during wedding in Bali for Josh and Renee. I would like to say that I commonly work around 6 to 10 hours for every season but what I did after the wedding is enjoying all the city, eat a lot of street food, and capturing as many as stock photos that I can.
Just to give you an impression so you can visit these 11 tasty food that I ate in Hong Kong.
Before this Corona crisis came, I always make a travel session with the whole family till we spend few days in Singapore both for holiday and working for my future photography investment in selling photographs online. If you read my story about exploring Singapore than you will read what I did during 4 days in this beautiful country.
Look at these tasty Singaporean food, damn it was so tasty, and so cheaaappppp!
On the left, Nina ordered a S$5 Hainan chicken rice and on the right I orders seafood fried rice that cost for just S$4 so once the waiter bring all this food to our table than I will spend few minutes to take a snap photo with different angle and perspective, this activity was so fast and don’t disturbing my and other people eating desire for sure because we did it for less than 3 minutes.
Once I came back home so I make a colour photo retouching for those photos which is I will make as natural as I can and submit it into my Shutterstock profile and it’s not that different for present day where I must stay at home as long as I can to avoid this virus spreading out.
See how I retouching my travel photos with a Singapore Glamz preset before submit it on the platform,
The Way I Work from Home and Selling My Photos Online
What I did today is just walking to a small street just next to my house and pick some photos of plant in a pot, cactus, and blue flower that grow in my garden, so it’s pretty simple and everything is in a walking distance. All photos that I get today for submit on Shutterstock is taken with my smartphone Samsung A10s so I challenge my self today to make photos by using mobile devices.
All photos is taken by smartphone than edited by using mobile Lightroom on the phone and last upload it all by my phone too, so it’s 100% of mobile working and if I could do this than you must be able to do that too. Now take a look for some sample that I’ve made today,
That was so beautiful to capture all these objects, so simple because I work just with my phone and set everything done for less than 30 minutes, now all those photos are just curated by Shutterstock and I hope everything is good and I could add my stock portfolios that ready to sell worldwide through this platform.
Do This Effort Seriously Bring Money Into Your Pocket?
Hell yeah brotha! we are here to make money through photography so it’s not just for fun even you must do it with fun but what you gonna do here, selling thousand of stocks is because someone out there will need your expertise of taking photos and they gonna use it for their own need and they definitely will pay you base on Shutterstock term and condition and you will bring your money home surely.
Let me show you with some of my photos that become of my money pictures and there is also my video that telling my subscribe about how is the feeling of get my first $0.25 by selling my Hong Kong egg waffle in Shutterstock.
It’s brilliant right, so now is your turn!
Now is the right time for you to change your daily habit from sharing your photos on social media without earning something into submit it your photo on Shutterstock and hoping for some cash! It’s a brilliant way to monetize any kind of photo stock that you have no matter it’s a travel, street, medical, nature, people portrait, food, or commercial because you always have a chance to sell it online and bring your money home.
Now think about this!
Sharing your photos on social media will just bring like and comment but this platform will bring the $$$ come into your pocket!
What’s better than this? no matter who you are as long as you have a passion in photography or making any video or graphic design than you will always can sell it on Shutterstock. I know that so many people or artist think it’s not worth it because the minimum pay out that you will made by selling your works is just $0.25/download but you always can make bigger than that if you got a single photo of download that will bring you over than the amount that I mentioned before. Till now my highest paid from single download is $8.49 even I know my friend got $60 for each download, it’s great for sure!
It’s Not the Only Way to Sell Your Photos But If You Know Nothing About It Than What I Shared Here is Matter!
There are some photographer who able to sell their photo for thousand to million of dollar but they definitely know how and where to sell their photos but if you know nothing about selling photographs or got no idea what to do with thousand of travel photos or snapshot that you’ve made on your phone or any mirrorless camera than what I shared here will matter for you.
Uploading your photo to Shutterstock is long journey but one day this gonna be your asset that will deliver cash on your hand even when you are sleep like a baby. Now you might be get $5/month but if you doing it in a great way than you could earn hundred to thousand of dollars just by selling photos online.
At the end before I sleep, I wish that you always can find your way to live as a photographer and I hope this topic will help you find that way and bring a good life motivation to you. No matter where you are than living through photography is like a roller coaster, sometimes we are good and sometimes we’re in a bad situation too and I believe that as long as we love what we do and working so hard in it than there is a way to live well as a photographer.
Now it’s your choice, you always can keep your photos on the hard disk and upload it on your social media for getting more likes and comments or you do it with my way, Sign up as a Shutterstock contributor, upload the photos on your account and hoping it will bring some cash to your account.
Have a joy work from home fellas!