Finance your trips and travel photographer

Travel and cover your trip with your photos

Who is the photographer who does not like to travel with his camera and pick up what he has discovered on each trip? The National Geographic photographer's excursions have often impressed us, and many of us dream of living what these photographers have lived through. But the physical obstacle always remains the cause of these ideas failing and working on them.

If you are a travel fan and a photographer at the same time, I think this article will give you hope again, for you to consider a new experience in your life as a photographer.

Filming travel trips can be defined as those that give pictures to the tourism sector, which start from photographing hotels, restaurants, celebrations and local holidays, cultures, customs, landscapes and everything related to where you are and who will give an additional idea to whoever wants to travel and tourism to it.

How can I finance my trips?

The financial barrier remains, as we said earlier, which fails to think about this type of photography, there are many ways to finance these trips, but there are bloggers, channels on YouTube or large accounts on Instagram and only they cover their trips by taking pictures by phone, so if you are a professional photographer It will be easier for you, but despite this ease and simplicity, the beginnings are always difficult.

Get financing by selling pictures on the Internet

Who among us has not read about these online markets that sell images, even we have talked about this topic previously in the photographer’s blog, which you can turn to for more information: selling pictures on the internet, but they are never the best. After the difficulty that you will face in order to accept your photos, be sure of the photos that you will upload, the copy will be sold at a price of approximately $ 10 and you will get 10 to 45% depending on the platform you have chosen to sell these photos. If you have a reputation as a photographer, it is easier to sell, but usually we are not, and this point remains only an attempt and we cannot guarantee its success.

Providing your services as a photographer in the country you are traveling to

• If you have sufficient experience in photography or have a style of your own, you can speak with the associations of photographers where you will travel and work on paid courses that explain your style of photography in general. Generally this point works well and you may fund your journey and get additional profits.

• Also, if you are a fashion or portrait photographer, you can work on setting up photo sessions in the place you will go, especially if you have followers on your social network accounts in the country you will travel to.

To work on this point, Facebook and Instagram ads will greatly benefit you. The strength of these ads, especially if you have a page on Facebook in which you share your photographic work. You will be able to reach the right customer for you with a simple budget.

Show your services to local agencies and companies

You can contact agencies for photographers or local companies to serve you as a photographer and answer you with the requirements they need in the photographer and photos. If they match you and your business, it is clear that you will get a job opportunity during your stay and will finance your trip.

Sell ​​your photos on your own

A lot of photographers working in this field have their own websites and installation of an add-on that makes their website an online store that enables you to sell their photos directly, but in some countries, especially Europeans, you will have to pay taxes to a country in exchange for that.

Financing via investment

You might even have read on one of these blogs that these travelers if you follow one of them. As they are working to pay their trips by investing small amounts in trading sites, such as Bainri Uno or investing in startups, after they have obtained enough profits that enable them to make the first trips and have examples to present them to other companies in order for the latter to sponsor their trips.

Among the companies that are most supportive of such matters, we find airlines, emerging sports camera manufacturers, and these are found in abundance, especially for those who share their journeys through the YouTube platform. And a lot of options that open with you gradually over time and get more followers of what you share.

This article is abstract ideas that will help you get started. Once you start and work hard, it will become easier, but it needs some kind of adventure and hard work.