| the proper way to approach the magazines market. | | | | stamped addressed envelope to get your images |
| The magazine market is by far the biggest market for | | | | back. |
| the freelance photographer, with millions of pictures | | | | Magazines have standard prices for photographs and |
| published each month. If you would like to see some | | | | will pay you after the magazine has gone to print. This |
| profit from your pictures, its really important to make | | | | differs from magazine to magazine; magazines that |
| the right approach. | | | | sell more normally pay more for their images - the |
| Taking pictures for the magazine market isn’t | | | | cover picture is normally the best paid, with the double |
| about taking nice shots that your friends will admire or | | | | centre being the second. |
| that will look nice on your wall at home. It’s | | | | If you sell an image to a magazine don’t submit |
| about taking images that will sell to a selective | | | | it straight away to a different magazine - the chances |
| audience, and to accomplish this you must understand | | | | are that they’ll find out and won’t use |
| the market. | | | | your images again. |
| Assuming that your photography ability is to par - there | | | | It doesn’t hurt to know the law when selling |
| is no reason that you can’t start sending your | | | | your images to magazines. The minute you hit the |
| images to photo editors straight away. Start off by | | | | shutter button you own the copyright. As standard |
| selecting the markets that you may have interest in. | | | | practice magazines normally pay you for the right to |
| Pick a market that you like to photograph. | | | | use your image once. If they use the same image in |
| Go to your nearest magazine outlet and buy 3 or 4 | | | | five months time, they must pay you a second time. |
| magazines that you are interested in submitting to. | | | | If your images aren’t as good as the images |
| Study each image that has been used by the photo | | | | that are used in the magazine don’t submit |
| editor and then compare the images in the magazine | | | | them. You will be wasting your own time and the time |
| to your own. | | | | of the photo editor. Photo editors are very busy and |
| This is were honesty comes in. | | | | get hundreds of submissions every month. Try to |
| If your images are every bit as good as the images in | | | | improve your photography and submit at a later date. |
| the magazine, feel free to submit them. Write or send | | | | Photo editors are always looking for new material, but |
| an e-mail to the photo editor telling them about your | | | | first study the market. |
| work. If you have a website, add it to the e-mail so | | | | It’s a fantastic feeling to see your images |
| that the editor can view a sample of your work. If you | | | | published for the first time. |
| do send your images by post make sure you include a | | | | |