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8 Creative Ways to Make Money with Your Photography

Back To Photography Forum. Eat Good Newbie Posts: I see all the stock photography websites out there. They have millions of images up for sale all over the net.

Is it really possible to make $$$ selling stock photography?

It would seem that the supply of images for sale far outweighs the demand for them. To me it seems the market would be saturated with photos that don't sell, images that just sit there and flounder. I am asking because I'm a street photographer who loves to shoot in the street.

I just picked up the hobby about a year ago and I love it.

I feel lucky that I discovered it. I should say that don't know how to use Photoshop, but I could learn. I have lots of free time during the day, so if I decided to sell stock photos, I could set a goal of capturing 5 or 10 good images a day, or say 50 or good quality images a week rough estimate. I already have a stock of photos on hand.

And thus I was wondering if it's possible for someone to earn around hundred dollars a month selling stock photos. To me, that doesn't seem possible. Granted, I'm a complete outsider who doesn't know much about the world of Internet stock photography. But it's apparent to me the competition is fierce. Supplementing your income to the tune of dollars a month doesn't seem possible because it appears, at least to me, to be a buyers market, not a sellers market.

Don Web Master Posts: I don't think there is much of a market for that either and even if there were people who were willing to buy your photos, how would you display them and protect your copyright at the same time?

There maybe a way but I would say that it's hard to stop someone from copying a photo from a web site. There is a formula to follow. If you follow it and don't have photos that suck , you will be successful. Now if you're asking "will it be easy?

Stock photography is hard work, and quite honestly my brain doesn't work that way. I'm not afraid of the work, but I'm not going to force myself to do something I don't care to do when the payoff takes that long to reach.

In the Great White North. I think it is possible to make money selling stock but you have to be willing to submit lots and lots of images. I know several people who make decent money selling stock, but they're pro photographers who use the client rejects from a photo shoot as stock.

Personally I sell a few images on iStock and to be quite honest it about pays for me to buy images that my clients need. So I guess really I'm not making money, its more of a trade system I think the real key to making money with stock is the type of imagery you produce.

For example iStock and similar sites are packed full of flowers and sunsets, but high concept imagery and things that are easy to incorporate into other projects are pretty scarce. Thanks to Ishii I found this site from some hits on the link above. I'm the guy referenced in the NiltoMil link.

My portfolio on these sites averages right around images. As of March 1st I only had online so I've added in the last 4 months, so about per month. So to answer the question, yes, it's very possible. I need to update the page, but I do have a short explanation about each agency here: It's really nice to get people from linked websites to come and register to explain on a more personal level. Welcome to Ozzu mantonino. Thanks for the welcome! I have run several forums in the past so I know what you mean.

I'll try to stick around as much as possible - I'm on so many forums tho I have difficulty keeping up. Hey Other-Matt, I definitely don't mind you sharing the link! I just read a post in the Spanish forum that linked me too although I gotta admit I know what he's saying but I probably can't write well enough in Spanish to reply!

You can make money out of stock photography. You just need a lot of images which people are likely to need to use.

Try looking at the top keywords people use, also check out http: Yes it is indeed possible to make tremendous amount of money online with photos. Specially stock photos for they can be resold as many times as you want as royalty free photos.

Each one is multifold better than selling ebooks to make money online. One thing you must remember that the competition is extremely high.

Hence you got to find your own niche, which is of utmost importance. I started my portal called Picdif Stock Photos, specializing in Indian and Asian stock photos and today reaping the benefits from it bigtime because there is less competition in the niche of indian photos.

If anyone is still interested in selling photos online this site is really good: Belk Media Group Director of Art Posts: If I were selling stock photography I would first approach graphic designers and graphic design firms and try to sell directly to them. If I used a third party stock site i would promote my stock business the same as any other service and not strictly rely on the sites popularity.

You can make some good money on stock. The best tip I can give is going to a smaller archive that has quality shots that can represent your images. The better the quality place the better the chances of your photos selling because of the type of clients they have looking at their archives. There is a new place I just checked out called shotshop that checks my boxes. Just my two cents! Of course you can.

Just think at the default windows xp wallpaper, bliss. That photo was sold for a very big sum and it was just a picture taken in a break by the photographer.

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