hey friends Craig here today I'm talking
to you about freelancing that's right
you've made some great images this week
and now you want to see if some local
newspapers or other media outlets are
interested in purchasing or using your
photos let's talk about that but I come
back
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subscribe my check this video is aimed
toward those who have a little more
experience shooting sports photography
me me that those just starting out this
is for the ones who have images that
you're thinking dang those are some
great images I want to share those with
more than just my friends and my family
so you're thinking newspapers I'm gonna
contact the newspaper but you have no
clue on how to go about doing this well
let's jump right into this so I'm going
to show you what you need to do how to
contact the newspaper and my steps and
even I'm gonna write a quick little
email to one of the publishers are maybe
the sports editor whoever I am to
finding and you can see what I do
alright let's jump into it is that a
recent football game I took four hundred
forty-four photos over those I narrowed
it down to forty three that I like so
I'll take these 43 and I will push them
out to some local newspapers and see if
they are interested there were two teams
involved obviously football two teams
right one is Nesta and the other one is
Toledo now Toledo
they had a sports photographer there so
I'm not gonna worry about them to start
with now stucco I didn't see anybody
there that was shooting for them so
that's who we're gonna focus on it so
let's close this and we'll go to Google
because I don't know anything about ness
ness sucka
so I don't know who their newspapers are
I don't know who's in charge so we'll
find out okay so we get in chamber they
don't care about the chamber so we got
Tillamook a light hair oh that sounds
like a newspaper and we got the news
guards so let's start with the news
guard okay so there's no sucker right
away so I'm guessing that they covers
and they cover sport Nazi stuck it and
they have a sports section so what I'm
gonna do just to make sure it's not
gonna see if they cover the Bobcats OOP
Bobcats all right so that's perfect so
then next what I would do is I will
scroll down to the bottom to contact us
news guy we have the publisher managing
editor sales office manage graphics play
and Baba I don't see a sports editor so
what I do is I will take this right here
i will copy his email address and what i
would do i will put that right there
and then I will put then Toledo
photos mister and then one thing you
want to do when you're emailing
publishers and editors you want to be
right to the point you don't want to say
hi I'm Craig I'm a freelance sport
photographer I was at the football game
the other day and boy howdy was it a
great game you should have been there's
so much action going on I took some
photos and I think you'll like them so
if you don't mind would you take a look
at them because I think you're really
gonna like you don't want to ramble on
like that so we're just gonna get right
to the point
I'm gonna say nope kept our name
recently attended the nest
okay with some great images
see them here and what I do is I have my
photos on a place called insta proofs
that's where I sell them through no
particular reason I just like them and
pick them out so I log in and I will go
find the gallery
there's my gallery oh look I made a sale
that's cool
I didn't copy the URL and I will put
that in here at sea down below with the
web address this way they can go
directly to the website and see what's
going on and then total twenty bucks per
photo actually I think that would do you
it's going to put this up here
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and put that but winched i charge 20
bucks per photo if your interest in the
photo please you can see them here any
questions you have I can see why I'm a
photographer got a writer actually do I
need to put that that's not working with
you cuz he knows they might have
something down the road that's ER but
they might wanted you alright there you
go so we got I tell him I'm freelance
sports photographer I was at the game I
got some great shots if you're
interested you can find them here I push
them right there instead of saying hey
I've got some photos if you're
interested contact me I'd let him have a
chance to go look at them first and then
if he decides twenty bucks is too much
he doesn't want to purchase something
that's fine maybe he'll contact me again
and say can we work out a deal or he
might say do you have any more or do you
want to shoot for us you know it could
lead you to about in any place now
there's a good chance he may come back
to me and say I can't purchase them but
I would like to use them and we can give
you credit and if you're just getting
started and you think that would be cool
to get your name in the paper go for it
if it's really cool to see her name and
photos in the paper and you can cut that
out and show all your friends and family
that you're published for me I'm past
that I've been in several newspapers
it's not that big of a deal I want the
money I'll be upfront I want the money
coming in kind of help pay for me going
there so I can get money this way and I
can also get it through the actual sales
through my Instagram's account and then
send
to the set all right there you go you
saw me this is actually what I do I will
contact them a lot of times what I do is
I'll find a local team who's playing a
team that's not local say like this
team's a couple hours away and I'm
pretty certain they're not gonna have a
photographer there
I will go to those games just for the
purpose of contacting those newspapers
and saying hey I've got photos and many
times I'll respond back saying yeah we'd
love to use your photos sometimes though
laughs at times I'll be truthful a lot
of times they won't contact me at all
it's like okay no biggie when it took me
like a couple of minutes to send a quick
email the photos already up on a gallery
to be sold so I'm not really losing
anything and there you have it it's
pretty easy pretty straightforward what
more do you need to know you get your
photos take some great images you put
them in a gallery you contact a local
newspaper you can use that same method
you just do a search for the newspapers
in that city and we'll pull them up find
the sports editor find the publisher
sometimes I will send emails to both of
them
so I've got my bases hang on hang on
hang on can I interrupt this video real
fast
I was just buttoning it up getting ready
to ship it off to YouTube and I noticed
got some e-mails back that's right
already a couple hours later I got some
emails so two out of the three
newspapers contacted me they replied the
first one which you saw me send the
email to said hey we loved your photos
however that happens a lot however they
aren't hiring freelance sports
photographers right now but when the
playoffs come around they're going to be
in touch so I also will be in touch with
them about that time you know just can't
keep those lines of communication open
now the other newspaper that contacted
me was just a little surprising was the
local one which I told you had a sports
photographer at the game so just goes to
show you just because somebody's there
doesn't mean you can't still reach out
and share your photos with them because
they might just pick them up anyway so
they want to use for my photos which
gives me 80 bucks I always like that
definitely paints for going to the game
and gives me a little pocket money to
put towards new gear yeah it's only 89
it's in my future and not on 80 bucks a
game that's for sure hopefully this
video was helpful for you and gave you
some motivation to continue working
toward becoming a better sports
photographer and to push your photos out
there and see who might be in
once again don't forget when you're all
done watching videos on YouTube today
don't don't spend all day I know it's
easy to go down the rabbit hole but what
you really need to do you need to grab
your camera and you need to get out and
shoot thanks for joining