Everything that could be used for commercial purpose, is a form of marketing and marketing usually takes the form of photographs. Today selling photographs is becoming a very large business. Earlier there were certain companies that use to handle it offline but now everything has become online.
Take a look on anything around you everything has a photo, an image above it. May it be a cereal box, any accessory, or anything even each website uses some photographs to explain better what they are trying to say and to what things do they relate.
Each type of business needs photographs for specific purposes. Whether it is a book publisher, magazine publisher, advertising agencies, film makers, web designers, graphic artists, interior designer, corporate designer etc. everyone needs photographs for their business. There are two ways they can get photographs. One is to hire a photographer and organize photo shoots at specific location. But this is very time consuming and also an expensive way.
Another way is to simply buy photographs of your use from someone and use them. This business of buying and selling of photographs is well known as Stock Photography. Wikipedia's definition for Stock Photography is:- Stock Photography consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific purposes. Their are many people like books or magazines publishers, designers, writers etc. everyone needs photographs for their creative assignments.
If you are a good photographer then it is very easy for you to earn some extra money through this photography business. I don't say that it a way through which you can become rich but yes for sure you can earn some money apart from your daily earning and that too very easily.
Your photography hobby now can become a source of extra income for you. But remember you need to click some very unique and extraordinary photographs apart from your immediate surroundings. They should really be admirable then only they will be accepted for selling purpose.
Their are many online sites that are into this business of buying and selling of photographs. You simply need to register yourself with any of those and submit your clicked photographs for selling purpose. Their are no initial charges for uploading your photographs. Now each time your photo is downloaded you get your share of profit.
It depends how much you earn per photograph. Each site have different share of profit for the owners of the photograph. Some of the sites where you can upload your photographs for selling purpose are:-
Take a look on anything around you everything has a photo, an image above it. May it be a cereal box, any accessory, or anything even each website uses some photographs to explain better what they are trying to say and to what things do they relate.
Each type of business needs photographs for specific purposes. Whether it is a book publisher, magazine publisher, advertising agencies, film makers, web designers, graphic artists, interior designer, corporate designer etc. everyone needs photographs for their business. There are two ways they can get photographs. One is to hire a photographer and organize photo shoots at specific location. But this is very time consuming and also an expensive way.
Another way is to simply buy photographs of your use from someone and use them. This business of buying and selling of photographs is well known as Stock Photography. Wikipedia's definition for Stock Photography is:- Stock Photography consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific purposes. Their are many people like books or magazines publishers, designers, writers etc. everyone needs photographs for their creative assignments.
Your photography hobby now can become a source of extra income for you. But remember you need to click some very unique and extraordinary photographs apart from your immediate surroundings. They should really be admirable then only they will be accepted for selling purpose.
Their are many online sites that are into this business of buying and selling of photographs. You simply need to register yourself with any of those and submit your clicked photographs for selling purpose. Their are no initial charges for uploading your photographs. Now each time your photo is downloaded you get your share of profit.
It depends how much you earn per photograph. Each site have different share of profit for the owners of the photograph. Some of the sites where you can upload your photographs for selling purpose are:-
- ShutterStock
- Dreamstime
- Fotolia
- BigStockPhoto
- IStockPhoto
To make money through selling photographs you should:-
- You need to have a very good digital camera with very high resolution and pixel quality.
- You should have time to invest in this business as editing photographs does takes time. It is not a task of few minutes. You need to give full description and upload full sized image.
- You should have talent of capturing very rare images apart from your surroundings.
- You should know how to edit photographs like cropping, coloring, shadowing, sharpening etc. There are multiple tools available that you can use for editing photographs like Photoshop, corel, CS2 etc.
- It will be very good if you can convince your family and friends to sign model release forms.
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