Is photography your hobby or passion? In either case you can easily start minting money if you pursue this passion. All you really require is a digital camera, access to good software programs on your computer and internet. Mentioned here are a few ways on how to make money with photos:

Internet contains a plethora of websites where you can stock your photos. There are micro stock agencies, which deal in providing with low cost pictures to the customers. There are many people who browse these sites and are willing to pay good price for the photographs. Simple images of a budding flower or an abandoned building will attract enthusiasts.

It is significant that you decide on a theme for clicking photographs. For a photograph to sell, it should be appealing to the customer. So your perception should be worthy as an illustration and should benefit the customer. Basically people are looking for crystal ideas or illustrations that cater to their company’s image. For example a lady with red lipstick in one hand and a cherry in other will sell more than a baboon jumping trees. Are you a novice in this field? Clicking photographs as hobby is completely different from clicking it from a professional point of view. Your friends might give you advice on how to shoot photos, but it would be better if you obtain some serious advice. There are several e-books that can guide you and turnyourphotosintocash.com is one of the best. It has clear instructions on how you can actually start getting great results in digital photography by following a few guidelines.

Yet another website learnelementsnow.com comes from an erudite in photography - David Peters. His e-book has step-by-step instructions on how to master your skills in Adobe Photoshop Elements in just 2 hours!

Once you have mastered the skill and taken a few photos, you have to follow certain instructions to upload your pictures in the micro stock agency sites. Primarily the picture should be in JPEG format. Ensure that the picture you have uploaded is 100% clear and unambiguous and does not have any granules. Even if it does have, remove all these before submitting. The photo should never include any names of the labels or brands. This will be copyright infringement. Try removing these with the help of Photoshop.

One of the most important parameter that people often overlook is indexing the photograph. Try to name the photo by including appropriate keywords. For this you have to conduct good research. You can even use synonymous words in case your competitor has used a similar word for his photograph. Try looking for these words online or in dictionary. For example, for bar you can use alcohol, wine, whisky, glass etc.

Finally the most important part - your payment! Once some of your pictures have been sold, you get bulk payments. Sometimes agencies take 50% of the money as their fee.

So it is a wise idea if you upload your pictures in more than one agency site. It will minimize your loss too.