I work for a photography company as a manager which means I don't get to do a lot of hands on work. I'd love to do some freelance photography on the side even if I don't get paid for it, just so I'd be able to use my creativity sometimes. Any idea of where to find work like this?

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To start with you can take loads of good photos and upload them onto sites which people can pay a small sum and use your photos in their websites etc. E.g. try istock.com

You can try www.odesk.com The site handles freelancers and online employees. But better check for the details of their features, but this may help you earn money in freelance type of work.

How you get the work would depend on what type of photography, so you would need to decide that first. Don't waste your time with stock photo companies. The regular stock photo companies are not doing so well because of the micro payment sites. If you deal with the micro payment companies you are looking at about 50 cents an image. They will lead you to believe that you will make money with quantity, but there is too much competition and it takes too long to process the thousands of photos it would take to make any significant amount of money. There is also a lot of competition in the freelance market. I had an occasion to sub contract a job that was too far for me to drive for the amount of money. As soon as I posted the ad I was flooded with photographers willing to drive 100 miles for a 100 dollar job. Best thing you can do is to try and find a niche that someone else is not already doing, then advertise.