What is the best way to earn money from photography?

What is the best way to earn money from photography?

As another answer says, wedding photography. Or work at a portrait studio. Or find another niche--such as sports photography (high school, etc.). Or specialize in real estate photographer--interiors and exteriors--and get assignments from agents who've listed homes for sale.

Hope that helps.

You would be better off working at Taco Bell.
Hard to make money from the pictures of the sky, trees, etc.

Choose an area, for instance taking pictures of businessmen and business women or taking pictures of children or high schoolers specifically for their school yearbooks, and as an extra sideline do pictures at wedding (all kinds, like under water, on the beach, on horseback, etc.), showers and events, maybe sports, graduations. What used to be best is to live in a town where you are the only photographer. Competition is tough. Today photography has gone to video like video weddings, strapping on the head/helmet a camera then riding down the shoreside or parrot trooper type jumping out of a plane and making video of the patterns a group does but from the sky level. People today are doing scary stuff like jumping from a plane into a cevice or getting up on a highwire across tall buildings and photographing what they see from up there. Think of something and make it your own niche.

I should have stated that i'm more in the line of wildlife photography. https://www.facebook.com/...e=bookmark

I'm no expert in the field, but I can think of some smart ways to do it.

Make sure you have a serious professional camera. 10 megapixels or more, I'd assume. Every teenager with an iPhone is a photographer and they all have social media. So, you're going to have to be serious about photography.

I'd suggest starting off with a website and showing off your work and selling it to people. Also, use Google AdSense to accumulate money to pay for the website and as a safety net, kind of. Then, while you're doing that find people that need photographers for special events.

I'd consider photography a hobby until you get to a point where you can do this seriously because the work and money come at random times and amounts. Consider working at a minimum wage job while you're doing this on the side or something of that nature.

Wedding photography is always a lucrative way to make money.

UPDATE

It is unlikely that you will ever earn much from wildlife photography--certainly not enough to live on. You might frame and sell some of your best photos, or make an occasional sale to a magazine.