Taking a picture has never been easier since so many of us walk around with a camera right in our pocket.
And thanks to the internet and a rise in online business, making money with your iPhone camera has never been easier than in 2021.
Today, I want to share 5 easy ways to make money with your iPhone camera (or the camera of any decent smartphone). While there are plenty of ways to make money with apps on your phone, there are only a few key ways to make money using your camera.
So if you’re a photographer or enjoy getting that perfect shot, here are a few ideas for making money with your iPhone camera:
1. Sell Your Spare iPhone Pics
There are dozens of sites that let you sell your iPhone pictures for money.
These sites accept photo submissions which are then added to a large archive of searchable images. When a customer visits the site and purchases your image, you get a share of the revenue.
To increase the odds that customers purchase your images, you may choose to use a photo editing app to really make your photography shine.
Examples of places to sell your pictures include Foap, Snapwire, and EyeEm.
Also, you might thinks its crazy, but you can make a crazy load of money by just selling feet pics online.
2. Become a Freelance Photographer
If you’re worried your iPhone camera is only meant for amateur work, then I have good news for you:
Professionals from all kinds of industries are using iPhones to create high-level work. Not only can you get super high-quality images from an iPhone, people are even shooting movies on the iPhone now.
If you’ve got a good eye for composition, color, and depth, then you could get hired as a freelancer. Sure, you may not want to show up to a family photo shoot with nothing but an iPhone, but freelance photographers don’t just shoot weddings and family groups.
You can make money as a freelancer by getting clients in product photography, commercial photography, editorial photography, food photography and more.
To make a significant amount of money as an iPhone photographer, you’ll want to pick a niche, market yourself well and stick to it. As you become well-known in your niche, you’ll be able to make more and more money with your iPhone camera.
To make a significant amount of money as an iPhone photographer, you’ll want to pick a niche, market yourself well and stick to it. One of the best ways to gain user popularity in the selected niche and to drive the attention of potential customers is to get a photography website of your own (you may use either CMS or specialized photography website builders. Actually, that’s a must-have for a freelance photographer. A website is the best statement of your professionalism, credibility and reputability.
An impressive portfolio lets you win a reputation as a niche expert. It will help showcase your talent, present your photos to the target audience and, yes, make profit by selling your best works online. That’s not only convenient and profitable, but that’s time-saving and trendy as well. As you become well-known in your niche, you’ll be able to make more and more money with your iPhone camera.
3. Snap Pictures of Your Receipts
If you’re not much of an artist but you still want to make money with your iPhone camera, then you’re in luck. The Fetch App will pay you to send pictures of your shopping receipts.
You don’t even have to make specific purchases or shop at specific stores. Just shop where you already do, snap a photo of your receipt, upload to Fetch and, in a while, you’ll have enough credits to cash out a gift card to your favorite retailer.
4. Run errands & Complete Visual Tasks
Another way to make money from your iPhone without being an artist is to run errands and complete visual tasks for Google and other research companies.
Corporations with big operations need help ensuring their in-store signage is set up correctly, their promotions are running as-planned, and their employees are following corporate guidelines.
That’s where Field Agent comes in: an app that gives you a list of tasks to complete using your iPhone camera at the places you might already be visiting.
In addition, in their quest to amass all the information in the world, Google will pay you to take photos of storefronts and other locations in order to build a repository of location-specific information. You can build the simple skills necessary to take good-enough photos with just a quick review.
With the Google Task Mate app, you can get paid (often in cash to your bank) by completing tasks assigned by Google.
5. Start a YouTube or Instagram Brand
Last on my list of ways to make money with your iPhone camera is to start a YouTube channel or an Instagram brand.
While neither of these ideas will make you rich instantly, if you do it right, they can really pay off in the long-term.
Influencer marketing has never been more attractive to companies and, if you can build a following on Instagram, you will easily get brand deals to sponsor your content.
Same with YouTube. Plus, Google (YouTube) will pay you for every view you get once you reach a certain subscriber and view threshold.
The proliferation of video editing software for YouTube has also made it so just about anyone can easily shoot and produce their own short movies or viral videos.
Read more on How to Download YouTube Videos in 60 FPS HD
Which one will you pick?
The real key to actually making money with your iPhone camera is to just take action.
Reading this list of ideas won’t get you anywhere, but trying one, two, or all of the ideas on this list could bring in a little extra money each month or change your life with a new career and your own business.
It’s really all up to you.
