Sell your images as stock... good idea?

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I was just reading a wee web article on the btyahoo homepage called '10 ways to make money at lunchtime' and here's what it said:

4) Sell your photos

If you're a keen photographer, it's worth seeing if you can sell your photos to stock photography websites. These websites will pay both amateur and professional photographers for their pics. Websites worth a look include Alamy , where you'll get 60% of each sale, Fotolia and PictureNation .

I was just wondering, have any of you done this? Seems like a good idea! My photos are just sitting in Flickr anyway so it would be cool if i could make a couple of quid from them!
what do you think about this?
 
TinySpark said:
I was just reading a wee web article on the btyahoo homepage called '10 ways to make money at lunchtime' and here's what it said:

4) Sell your photos

If you're a keen photographer, it's worth seeing if you can sell your photos to stock photography websites. These websites will pay both amateur and professional photographers for their pics. Websites worth a look include Alamy , where you'll get 60% of each sale, Fotolia and PictureNation .

I was just wondering, have any of you done this? Seems like a good idea! My photos are just sitting in Flickr anyway so it would be cool if i could make a couple of quid from them!
what do you think about this?
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I looked into this a little bit and the one thing I would say is that really you need something unique before you are going to make any serious money.. alot of sites won't accept images if they are already inundated with similar shots and also the bigger sites can be very picky about your photo's and will often reject shots that are not 'Perfect'
 
Check the T's&C's carefully obviously, but I can't see what harm it could do to be honest!
 
thanks for the input, yeah i wouldn't really expect much money from it (if any! by the sounds of it you almost have to know what they're looking for), but I guess if its as simple as uploading your photos to there then i could give it a shot, not sure though.
Funny you say that Luke cause lately i've become a bit interested in wedding photography, since talking to togs at a wedding fair and that. My cousin is getting married next year and apparently I'm their tog! (no experience at wedding at all, I still have to work hard to get a decent portrait! but they can't afford another wedding tog sooo) But I've heard it involves a lot of late nights on photoshop and sorting albums!
 
It's worth doing because you can just add to your portfolio over the years and at some point your bound to make sales, so really there is no reason not too. Just don't see it as a 'get rich quick' thing as it is far from that.

One way to try and get your images sold is do a search for things that are easy for you to photograph, see what kind of results come up and then target the subjects that either have fewer results or poor images representing them. I know a lot of people say that it's all been done before and there are a lot of similar images for a client to pick from, but the fact is they still have to pick...so if you have an image on there your in with a better chance than if you don't!

Go for it :D
 
Richard Peters said:
It's worth doing because you can just add to your portfolio over the years and at some point your bound to make sales, so really there is no reason not too. Just don't see it as a 'get rich quick' thing as it is far from that.

One way to try and get your images sold is do a search for things that are easy for you to photograph, see what kind of results come up and then target the subjects that either have fewer results or poor images representing them. I know a lot of people say that it's all been done before and there are a lot of similar images for a client to pick from, but the fact is they still have to pick...so if you have an image on there your in with a better chance than if you don't!

Go for it :D
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Great advice that. It's funny you should mention that, becuase I had a look through a few catagories and for a good few of them I thought to myself "I can take just as good a shot as that"...

So I think I will give it a shot too!
 
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