Im pretty sure this is the right forum but I took some awesome photos of my friends Cricket phone and I was hoping to submit some of these to the website. So far I can't find a single email on there site but I was wondering if anyone had any tips on what price I should be asking for or anything like that.
Here are some of the photos I got:





I've never sold a photo before thats why im hoping for some help..

With the second one it's too dirty with fingerprints, etc. smeared across the middle button and the screen. And with the last one there's too much glare on the things to read what the text says on parts of the phone.

As for selling them to the company, good luck. I'm not sure they'd ever even consider submissions like this unless they happened to be having some kind of user-submission contest or something. They have contracted photographers specifically to take product shots and yours just aren't quite fancy enough to wow them away from what they've already got I'm sure.

Be a little more conscious of glare next time, and try to have a new, or at least clean product, and you'll have yourself some nice product shots. But as far as selling them to a company, maybe try aiming for a company that you wouldn't think would have a photographer hired already. Some sort of niche thing. Otherwise you'll just have to build a portfolio like everyone else. ( ;

The view of long fingernails disgusts me,...and therefore, YOU disgusts me.

I hate you. gtfo....

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they pay people to take much better quality work than that for their ads, what makes you think they're going to give you any money?

uhhh, if youve never sold a photo before, a huge company aint where to start. "oh sweet, some random kid sent us some alright photos of our phone, lets send him moneys in return"
maybe try stock photography, theres a lot of resources to read up on about how to do it well, but it still aint easy

amen.

HOLY SHIT! look what I found on Kyocera's home page...

this is funny but you are fat

Yea so was Chris Farley. The funniest people are fat.

haha true dat...

As for the OP that wants to sell photos:

I think you need to first brush up on your photography skills before you even think about this. B&W product pictures may look cool if done properly, but its no way to show a new peice of technology. Your final picture is the most decent one, but in product shots like this long finger nails are a no no. So are distracting white reflections on the screen of a phone.

Any decent photographer would no this (no offense) so i suggest reading up on marketing photography and product shots/advertising. You must realize too that its not easy to gain attention from major corps. You need a name for yourself. You need to know people. You need a portfolio. You need a good camera/decent studio.

Your best bet is to try smaller shit websites and offering to do their shots at a very low price or even free to start your portfolio. Breaking into the photography world unfortunatly means prostituiting yourself a lot in the beginning.

/my advice