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Sell Stock Photos

 

 

Learn how to sell stock photos.  Selling your photos online, through a stock photography agency is a good way for amateur photographers to generate some income and professional photographers to build their photography business.  The following stock photo agencies encourage photographers to submit photos to their sites.  Each agency has different quality control rules and different payment policies.  Please visit their websites for details on their stock photographer programs.

 

BigStockPhoto.com:  BigStockPhoto.com accepts photographers who can pass a test after reading their photographers tutorial. 

Dreamstime.com:  Dreamstime accepts photographers after a review of their initial submittals.  Dreamstime offers inexpensive stock photos, which encourages plenty of sales and increases you potential income.

fotolia.com:  This site appears to be very similar to iStockphoto in design.  They encourage new photographers to join their ranks, and offer a commission on each sale.  They also operate on a micropayment system, with royalty free stock photo prices ranging from $1 to $3.

iStockphoto.com:  iStockphoto encourages photographers to join their active community of stock photographers.  iStock helps their photographers improve their craft by offering educational articles and photographer gatherings.  They also maintain an informative and active community forum.  Photographers receive a payment for their photos that are sold.  iStockphoto offers high quality photos at very inexpensive prices, which encourages lots of sales.

Shutterstock.com:  Shutterstock accepts new photographers to upload photos to their collection.  Shutterstock sells photos by subscription, which encourages users to download multiple photos.  Photographers receive a payment each time one of their photos is downloaded.

 


 

 

Popular Stock Photo Subjects

Some stock photos sell better than others.  Here is a list of stock photo subjects that seem to sell well. 

  • People - in any situation, stock photos with people in them tend to sell well.

  • Business Images

  • Food

  • Sports

  • Conceptual Photos

  • Holiday & Seasonal Items


 

 

Model Releases

Any photos that you take that include any recognizable people, must have a signed model release, if you plan to submit them as stock photography.

The various stock photo agencies should be able to provide you with model release forms to use.

Here's an article from Apogee Photo Magazine about Model Releases.

 

 

 

 


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