Sell your digital photos online
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There are many web sites accepting and paying for stock photos, these are photos that can be purchased and used by more than one person for different reasons, people buy photos to use them in web sites, magazines, presentations, ads, etc.
How does it work?
It goes like this: you as the photographer upload your photos to different sites that will be listed at end of this post, these sites will sell your photos more than once to different buyers that visit those Stock Photo sites. When a photo is sold you get between $0.25 and $1.5 per photo, if you have a portfolio of 50-100 photos you can have a significant monthly income.
Quality Standards
Photos you submit to these sites need to meet some quality standards that are different from site to site. A photo that is accepted to one site might not be accepted on another site. Some of the photos that get rejected most often are photos with noise or with copyrighted items (logos for example).
Stock Photo Sites
All these web sites will buy the photos from you. You can submit your photos to all of them, this way you will maximize visibility for your photos:
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I’ve submitted about 100 stock photos to various sites and get different responses about the same photos. Once site loves a shot, another rejects the same photo. The submission guidelines for various sites all seem the same. Is good photography, like beauty, “in the eye of the beholder?”
Good point Helen Bascom, I noticed it too, some stock photos site reject some of my photos that are top sellers on other site, I guess approval just depends on what they need at that moment.
Quick Question.
Who holds the copyright/ownership or what have you of the photo you took?
Especially if you use these sites?
Hi Soc, you are still the owner of the copyrights, the sites that sell the photo usually request that the buyer only use that in only one location per purchase. So if you bought a photo you pay once to use it in let’s say a site header and then if you want to use it in another animation then you buy it again. Some sites also ask you if you want to sell different type of permissions, for example you set a price of 20 times the photo to allow a buyer to use it in multiple prints, or sell the full rights for 100x times the price of the photo, these additional licences are optional.