You don’t have to be a
professional photographer or even a very good photographer to make money from
your photographs. All you
have to do is start taking photos and selling them online.
You can sell your
photos online by uploading them to an
online photo agency that will sell them around the world. The beauty is that you can upload a photo
once and you can be earning royalties for years to come.
It’s relatively easy
today to make some decent photos because you can get decent digital cameras very
cheap today and start taking photos of
landscapes animals, and birds around you.
Where can you sell
your photos online?
Once you have your photographs
you can upload them to one or more online photography sites and make money every time someone buys one of your photographs
These sites have their
own rules on who can join and technical requirements for your photos. It may take a while
for you to get a response when you submit your photographs because they have
lots of photos coming in daily and need to evaluate all of them to see if they meet their standards. Technical
requirements can be RGB, JPEG uncompressed file format for your pictures and the size of
your photos.
Some of the sites
where you can sell your photosare:
iStockphoto - you can request payment through PayPal,
Moneybookers, Payoneer MasterCard or cheque once you reach $100.
Fotolia -
pays it’s contributors commission from 20% up to 63%. You can receive
your payment through Moneybookers or
PayPal.
Shutterstock - contributors are paid $0.25 and upwards per
download.
Gettyimages - you
can upload your photos and earn revenue as a Royalty Free (RF)
or rights managed (RM)
Depositphotos - you
earn commission based on your level, commission goes from 44% to 52%.
Bigstockphoto - you
can earn from $0.50 and more depending on the size of the photo, or 30% of the
US dollar price. You can cash out using
Paypal or Moneybookers once you accumulate
$30 in earnings .
Photocase - pays
royalty from 40% to 60%.
You can cash out at €100.
Photospin - pays 40% revenue share. You can request payment with Paypal, Moneybookers and check once you have $50 in your account.
Imagevortex -
is a site that wants to attract professional and full time
photographers. Photographers set price for their own photographs in the
range $20 to $300 and receive 70% of the sale price.
These are only some of the sites where you can make real money online selling your photographs. You will find many more sites similar to these if you search online. So grab your digital camera and start taking photographs of your pets, your garden or whatever you love to photograph.
These are only some of the sites where you can make real money online selling your photographs. You will find many more sites similar to these if you search online. So grab your digital camera and start taking photographs of your pets, your garden or whatever you love to photograph.
