Join Foodiesfeed, share your food photos for free and reach new audience
I’ve already written about my honest opinion why photographers should share their pictures for free. I also published a post about my story and how sharing pictures for free helped me start making a living by what I love doing.
This time I will focus solely on:
- How to create account on Foodiesfeed and upload photos
- How exactly Foodiesfeed helps photographers reach new audience
- What kind of photos Foodiesfeed visitors need
How to sign up and upload photos
Foodiesfeed is visited by 40.000+ NEW unique visitors every single month. That’s 40k different pairs of eyes seeing your work. For free. New followers? New business partners? I guess so.
I’ve recorded a short screencast that shows how to sign up and start uploading. The process of signing up and uploading first photo takes just a few minuts. If you decide to submit some of your food photos, don’t bother with names and tags, I’ll take care of it.
Fun fact: You can see me, Jakub - the founder of Foodiesfeed, in the video. I’m a real person with a real smile on his face! :)
Foodiesfeed — free promotion platform
Whether you sell photos in stock photos agencies, trying hard to become a popular food blogger or you’re freelancing for cooks, restaurants and food brands, it’s in your own good to start sharing your photos for free on platforms like Foodiesfeed. Because there is nothing like “too much promotion” online. The more channels you utilize, the bigger chances are that others will notice you.
We regularly feature trending photos on our social media and give shout-outs to our contributing photographers. And not only on our social media but we also feature photographers in our weekly newsletter to 20.000+ subscribers.
Besides that, there are plenty of features on the website that help photographers with their promotion. Our effort is to put more emphasis on our photographers and their social media instead of on the photos exclusively. It makes the connection between the photographers and their new followers more likely.
The features on the website are:
- Photographer’s profile is shown every time someone downloads their photo. That makes the consumer pay attention to the author of his new photo and more likely to check out their social media.
- There are links to photographer’s website and social media in their profile.
- Photographers can fill out their location, making the connection with other local creative professionals easier.
- Hire me button that is defaultly enabled and shown in every photographer’s profile. Via the contact form, Foodiesfeed visitors can shoot an email directly to the photographer.
- Link to a recipe on a food blogger’s website. If photographers upload a photo of a meal for which they published a recipe on their blog, they can link to it and drive new traffic.
All of the mentioned points above in combination with the reasons in the article about sharing photos for free should already ring a bell in every food photographer’s head. Without exaggerating, there’re completely NOTHING to lose in joining Foodiesfeed and sharing photos for free. Quite the opposite.
What kind of photos our visitors need
When thinking of what food photos you should upload, take in mind that the majority of Foodiesfeed visitors are graphic designers and social media managers. A visual feeling of the photo is more important than the food itself so it all comes down to natural look and usability.
Creative professionals are looking for a perfect play of colors, clean composition, good lighting and most importantly a natural look. I’m sure you’ve already noticed the recent shift in all kinds of visual communication. People are starting to prefer warm welcoming natural looking photos over cold sterile emotionless stock photos. Our goal is to eliminate all these ugly sterile stock photos.
Creative professionals usually want to put a piece of copy or some graphic elements on the photo. They appreciate if you leave some space in the frame. Pictures that are “loud and messy” with many things going on are less usable.
It’s also important that the photos are more generic than too specific. It needs to fit more purposes. It needs to accompany different stories. Instead of some crazy looking unknown dessert, a very rare raw meal or an unspecified luxury meal, better think of much simpler things.
For example photos of:
- fruit, vegetables and other ingredients,
- popular foods like bread, donut, ice cream, cake, sandwich, burger, steak, pizza or pasta,
- drinks like coffee, tea, beer and cocktail,
- people in action like for example someone eating in a restaurant, holding a cup of coffee, cutting fish, baking cake or grilling.
Everyday stuff we all know and that can be used in various projects, websites, apps and designs.
I should mention one more important thing. It’s not necessary to upload only the newest or best shots. Quite the opposite! You can upload photos that you published years ago or you haven’t published them anywhere else (Instagram, personal portfolio, blog). All of us have plenty of beautiful food photos all over our hard and cloud drives and also in our blog posts that graphic designers or social media managers would love to use for their work or regular visitors as their new wallpaper. It’s wasting of the potential of the photos, when these can be still valuable to a large number of people.
Quality of the uploaded photos matters. It’s the premise that Foodiesfeed was originally built on. We want to return great photo results which means we need to add an editorial curation element to our photos to make sure that they are hitting a standard. In regard to that, my personal approval of each and every photo is one of the most important aspects of making Foodiesfeed the best resource of free food photos available on the internet.
