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Make Money Taking Photographs And Selling Them As Stock Photos
- If you are any good with a camera then there
are people out there on the internet who may
well be interested in your photos. Provided
you know where to go and you know what you
need to submit, you could already be sitting
on a huge amount of potential revenue.
- And
there is nothing stopping you from taking
even more pictures to suit the needs of the
people looking for them, so grab your camera
and your computer and get started. Read on
to find out more…
- If you are often online you’ll probably
be aware of the existence of stock photos.
These are held by a number of websites which
offer them – either for free or for a fee –
to anyone else who wants them. And you would
be surprised at how many people do want
them!
- Webmasters need them for their websites;
publishers need them to illustrate books,
articles and courses, and some people just
want to create their own screensaver from a
selection of photos they particularly like.
- That’s where you come in. While websites
that hold stock photos already have
thousands in stock, they also have thousands
of visitors every day who are looking for
the right shot – and yours could be the one
they want.
- The most important thing to remember is
to read through the requirements of each
website carefully before submitting
anything. Some of these sites don’t pay
their photographers at all so you’ll need to
be sure you’ll earn something from it. Most
of them also have very precise submission
rules that you need to follow in order to
get your pictures accepted. Don’t worry too
much about these, since if you know a
reasonable amount about photography they
shouldn’t present too much of a problem.
- Once you’ve found a website you like, you
need to think about what kind of photos to
send in. There may be restrictions posed by
the site itself, but other than this you
should think about branding yourself in some
way. If you can stand out from the thousands
of other photographers on the site you’ll
sell more photos, so it makes sense to play
to your strengths and make sure you
concentrate on a particular subject area
rather than trying to appeal to anyone and
everyone.
- If you have two strengths that you’d like
to promote, the best plan can be to join two
different sites and have a different
username for each one. That way people won’t
link the two names together and you can
brand yourself as an expert wildlife
photographer on one, and an expert still
life photographer on the other. It also
doubles your chances of making new sales!
- While we are on the subject of sales,
it’s a simple mathematical truth that the
more photos you display on these sites, the
more sales you are going to make. Aim for as
many as possible but only ever submit the
best photos you have, otherwise they may be
rejected.
- The great thing about stock photos is
that people will be paying a small fee for
using the photo. They are not buying it
outright. What this means is that you could
have two thousand photos on a particular
site, make two thousand five hundred sales
in a year… and still have two thousand
photos available for downloading!
- This makes it a great automated stream of
income that will keep on coming in month
after month, once you have set it up and
uploaded your photos initially. All that
remains for you to do is to take some more
photos and add those on as and when you can.
- As far as money making opportunities on
the internet go, this is one of the best if
you have any photographic ability. Leave us
a comment below and then go and see which
site you like the look of – it could be the
start of something big.
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