How to Sell Photos Online and Make Money
There are numerous sites where you can sell photos, but before that remember these few things:
- first of all to sell your images they must be good enough i.e, acceptable from microstock’s point. So your photos need to be technically right.
[Note: Microstock sites in simple words are websites which take images from almost anybody (amateurs, professionals) provided those images meet their technical requirements, and sell those images at a lower price]. People who buy your images are basically ad agencies, art directors, graphic artists, magazines, etc. They do these to avoid hiring a full time photographer. So in order to sell your images make sure they are clean and clear technically. That’s the reason why I insist to keep practicing.
- No digital noise
Most of the microstock sites are very strict over the quality of the images, digital noise being one reason. It is caused by high ISO, grain effect, under exposures and long exposures. Noise can be removed using suitable software’s like lightroom and photoshop.
- Avoid landscape photos
There are thousands of images like these on the microstock sites, don’t ever think of earning more from landscape photos. To sell your images they should be commercially in demand and usable.
- No copyrighted material here
Images submitted should not have copyrighted content like company logo or name…
- Model release required
If you have any recognizable person in the photographs, you need to sign a model release from them. Its basically a permission to use these images commercially. If you don’t get model release, images can still be submitted as editorial(less salable).
- Build a good portfolio
The more no. of images, more the money. For instance you submit one image to a microstock site and its downloaded 10 times(assuming your commission to be $0.25 for each downloaded photo) than you get 10x.$25=$2.5. If you have 500 images(salable) and assuming the average download/image is 5, then you get 500×0.25=$625(which is only for a single agency).
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