Selling photos online?

[CarlosGilbertos]

I had a conversation with my friend who had recently returned from a skiing holiday in France. He took some photos of boarders and skiers performing tricks (Though nothing special I might add) off of a small ramp, the pictures were half decent but nothing spectacular.

He used an online agency to sell the photos apparantly.
He managed to sell a few of the photos online and covered the price of the holiday with them! I wouldn't have thought they would sell for that amount, if at all!

One particular photo sold (With copyrights) for £120. Does this sound right or is he telling pork pies?

On a related note:
How would i go about selling my photos online?

 

[Byker28i]

Which agency did your friend say he used?

 

[onikami]

I would be interested to know as well. Want to try joining one of these on line sellers.
Just had a look at http://www.alamy.com/

 

[Danny_Two]

You can get yourself a Zenfolio site. Basically a very slick pro version of flickr, but the higher subscription account has some very good commerce services which basically handle all the transactions for you, customers buy your pics and Zenfolio pays you, minus their cut.

http://www.zenfolio.com/

 

[jockwav]

Have you ver sold anything on zenfolio,i haven,t.:shrug:
My subscription ends around april,wont be re-newing.

 

[KIPAX]

depends what your selling.. who to and do they know the pics are there..

i get a steady flow of sales from my website.. but i have over 100 thousands pics.. if I had 20 landscapes and no visitors i wouldnt sell any

 

[dan-marsh]

On a related note:
How would i go about selling my photos online?

If you show a sample of the photos you are thinking of selling, then it would be easier to give advice.

There's 101 ways to sell photos.

 

[Danny_Two]

Have you ver sold anything on zenfolio,i haven,t.:shrug:
My subscription ends around april,wont be re-newing.

Nope, but I don't have the pro account. My mate has though and made a few quid out of it.

 

[jurat]

Alamy seems like an alright site. Are there any others like that around?