"It’s simple. Visit our new website as good as search for a Google Trusted Photographer inward your area. ... schedule a 4th dimension as good as bargain on a cost that yous lot testament pay the photographer for a photoshoot of your business. ... During the hour it should practise got for the shoot, yous lot forcefulness out send away collaborate ... well-nigh how best to display as good as capture your business. ... the lensman will upload the images to Google, as good as .. you’ll encounter ... views of your depict concern on [your local Google search site], Google Maps as good as on your Google Places listing. "So for a photographer, it looks like the physical care for is:
- You acquire approved as a GTP (does beingness a long-standing photograph blogger help with this?).
- Google advertise that you're available
- Businesses as good as organisations that wishing official photos inward Google contact you, as good as negotiate times/prices.
- You visit, practise got the photos, as good as create any post-processing
- You accuse them to Google on behalf of your customer.
Google practise got provided a Service Agreement that yous lot must usage - as a commissioned job, the ownership of the copyright of the photos passes to the person or organisation who pays. So you'll need their permission if yous lot wishing to gear upward the photos onto your blog.
Final thought:
I wonder if there's any way to embed a Google Places listing, including the official photos, inward a weblog - the same way we forcefulness out send away embed a custom map.
How to cash inward one's chips a Google Trusted Photographer
I didn't a quick search, precisely couldn't accolade definitive answers. I did accolade unopen to data well-nigh what multifariousness of things they are expected to do:
Trusted Photographers are trained to practise got high grapheme photos of building interiors, accommodating for usual challenges such as low lighting as good as tight spaces. The photographers are as good certified to practise got pictures using fisheye lenses as good as rotating photographic boob subway photographic goggle box camera turrets (mounted on tripods)
And this link, where yous lot forcefulness out send away involve well-nigh the program: http://maps.google.com/help/maps/businessphotos/interested-photographer.html