How do I sell my photos??

by **eldad75** » Mon May 11, 2009 10:45 pm

Hello there,

I have a few photos that people just LOVE, and I would love to know how can I go about selling them. Is there such a thing as an "agent" for selling photos?

I am attaching a shot just so you see what i'm talking about.

Thanks for any info,

Eldad

by **Tarvalon** » Tue May 12, 2009 11:03 am

I'd check out http://www.istockphoto.com/

Good luck!

by **eldad75** » Tue May 12, 2009 6:14 pm

I tired them... passed their tests, and they denied this photo!! :evil:

by **Tarvalon** » Tue May 12, 2009 6:52 pm

eldad75 wrote:I tired them... passed their tests, and they denied this photo!!

I can't help you with that one

by **tan** » Mon May 18, 2009 9:17 am

Try to open your own site and orginize selling

by **webnip** » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:14 pm

eldad75 wrote:I tired them... passed their tests, and they denied this photo!!

You can't blame them ... the occuring event seen on your picture is quite interesting, yet the picture itself is of poor quality.

by **Dukessa** » Sun Nov 08, 2009 1:43 pm

You could try on deviantart, and publish something here http://www.milliondollarartpiece.com

by **stevebuchanan** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:19 pm

What you're referring to is stock photography. There are three primary methods for selling your existing stock of images...

1. Sign with a traditional stock agency. These are shrinking due to a number of business factors but the big player on the block is getty images. Generally speaking, unless you're a seasoned pro or have content that's not otherwise available, you'll have a hard time getting a traditional agency to accept your work.

2. Submit to a microstock agency. Istock is the biggest but there are certainly others. Shutterstock and dreamstime come to mind. The downside to microstock is the licensing fees customers pay is very low, the contributor (that's you) gets a relatively small percentage of sales (usually around 20%) and theres a lot of upfront work to get them up (you have to caption and keyword your own images)

3. Sell them yourself. Set up a website, merchant account, keyword, market, and manage. Photoshelter.com has a pretty good program for helping you do this, but there's costs associated with this route (both money and time)

In general, stock is a tough way to make money. If you've got a large collection of images it can be worth your while, but if you've just got a few images it's really not worth it. (IMHO)

Good luck
Steve

http://www.buchananphotography.com

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