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Digital Sports Photography: Take Winning Shots Every Time
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Digital Sports Photography: Take Winning Shots Every Time

by Serge Timacheff, David Karlins
September 2005
Intermediate to advanced
358 pages
11h 33m
English
Wiley
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Chapter 12. Going Pro or Covering Costs: Selling Sports Photos

Going Pro or Covering Costs: Selling Sports Photos

© David Esquire

Digital photography, combined with the proliferation of the very affordable personal computer market, makes for a tremendous growth in interest for selling photography and even going pro. While many pro photographers are grappling with the transition of expensive equipment and new techniques required by a changeover to digital photography workflow, some computer-savvy opportunists are starting their photography careers from scratch and making impressive progress quickly. The basic point here is that there are many levels of digital sports photography, and you can begin to distribute and even sell your photos now. Maybe you'll continue to improve your technique and upgrade your equipment — or maybe not. But in any case, you can find an audience, and maybe a market, for your digital sports photos.

Professional photography has changed dramatically over the last few years with the advent of a digital world, not the least of which has been the Internet and its amazing capabilities for presenting, transporting, and distributing photography. Some of the traditional areas of professional photography have become less viable as a business, while others are booming For example, it's much tougher today to make money shooting commercial products for catalogs or even Web sites. Many businesses are satisfied with digital ...

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