Re:Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
by Cherian on Saturday June 17, 2017 @06:18PM
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You are right. We have around $3000 worth of lighting equipment, lens, etc. But we acquired them along the way.
Sponsored content is a good chunk of money (close to 30% every mom) but its nonscalable.
Re:Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
by zombieprocess on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:54AM
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Can you elaborate some more on this? What kind of equipment and resources for learning more about this?
Re:Ask HN: How much ad revenue you make from your side project?
by joshvm on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:46AM
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Typically: DSLR, large aperture normal zoom lens, 2 or more external strobes, softboxes, reflectors, tripods, and flash triggers.
Have a look at Strobist which is specifically aimed at flash photography.
Otherwise just look in photo or recipe books, food blogs and shamelessly steal until you get the hang of layout.
It's quite a stereotyped field though, and I would imagine it's a saturated market. Everyone wants to be like Deliciously Ella [1]. Don't even try unless you have a studio setup for the photography. Lots of food authors are pivoting towards more (usually female oriented) "lifestyle" blogs which happen to have recipes.
A lot of food blogs target healthy eating, or niche diets like keto/paleo. There are also tons of specialist food blogs covering bread, cakes, etc.
[1] https://deliciouslyella.com/