sell your photos as stock photography

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

01/06/2005 03:05:01 AM · #1

i know this was brought up before many times. but those posts are long gone.. so here i am telling it to people who are new to dpc...
sell you photos at shutterstock and make money...
i have been with them for 2 and a half months now and made almost 300 bucks. recommended

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Montereykiddo

Nikon D300

01/06/2005 03:26:23 AM · #2

Have people actually made a profit from uploading their photos to this website?

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Nikon

01/06/2005 03:45:44 AM · #3

i have made 278 dollars so far....

Montereykiddo

Nikon D300

01/06/2005 03:54:36 AM · #4

How many picture have you submitted? What are they of?

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/06/2005 04:08:20 AM · #5

about 500 pictures. mostly people and business and technology type of stuff... i make steadily about 100 to 150 a month and it seems to be increasing every month..

GeneralE

Canon PowerShot S3 IS

01/06/2005 04:09:55 AM · #6

Plus theodor will make a LOT more since everyone signs up through his referral link : )

Or do they ... ?

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Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM

01/06/2005 04:21:24 AM · #7

yup!!! :)

melking

Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III

01/06/2005 07:05:13 AM · #8

I have made over $200 US on Shutter Stock too!

Sign under me and make lots of money...hehe

Melissa

loz1

Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi

Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6

01/06/2005 07:06:29 AM · #9

I love shutterstock and more importantly, i love having one of the top dl photos there :)

colda

Nikon D800

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

01/06/2005 07:09:23 AM · #10

I think this signing under other people is a bad idea, rather than worrying about who to sign under just use this link :)

jonpink

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2

01/06/2005 07:13:17 AM · #11

You need to sell a thousand images just to get $200? That is dire.

If I sell a single image (rights managed) I get $471

Sounds like a bad deal. Why not stick them on your own site, even if you get one sale per year it would still be better.

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Imagineer

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF-S 17-85mm f/4-5.6 IS USM

01/06/2005 07:40:44 AM · #12

Truthfully, I may as well stick some up there. I have hundreds of decent, but personally uninspiring shots languishing on my HDs so at least they can perform a function and make a small amount of money in the process.

I've made 30$ so far and I don't care how long it takes.

deapee

Kodak V803

Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D

01/06/2005 07:57:35 AM · #13

Originally posted by theodor38:

i have made 278 dollars so far....

I know you make a little bit off me ... I signed up through your link.

thatcloudthere

Canon EOS-1D

Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM

01/06/2005 08:04:36 AM · #14

Originally posted by jonpink:

Do you sell to a library, or directly to the end user? And where?

jonpink

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2

01/06/2005 08:34:33 AM · #15

Originally posted by thatcloudthere:

Originally posted by jonpink:
You need to sell a thousand images just to get $200? That is dire.

If I sell a single image (rights managed) I get $471

Sounds like a bad deal. Why not stick them on your own site, even if you get one sale per year it would still be better.

Do you sell to a library, or directly to the end user? And where?

I don't really make any effort to sell my images to be honest. I have a few that are on my website which is just there more as a display of what I can do rather than actually to sell.

However, every so often I get people phoning me asking if they can buy the image to use for publications, and that's when I sell them.

I usually give them a price structure to choose from, depending on what they want to use it in.

Sometimes the client wants to buy the whole image rights and all, which is my favorite as I can then charge a lot more.

Mostly, for one time usage I charge around Â£200-300 and for full rights ownership I judge it on the quality of photograph and it's resell value.

Obviously I am not selling these several times a day, but I think in the last year i have made about Â£1500 from those photographs alone, plus quite a few shoots have come my way after people have seen the portfolio.

It's more about utilizing keywords than being able to take photographs, mine are no different to anyone else's on here, rather my site simply gets more traffic than the average home users website.

jonpink

Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX2

01/06/2005 08:35:17 AM · #16

When I get time, i will cerate a separate sister site with all my images, but at the moment I don't have time (probably because i spend it all on DPC)

Rgarcia

Olympus OM-D E-M1

Olympus 75-300mm f/4.8-6.7 II M.Zuiko ED

01/06/2005 09:55:20 AM · #17

Originally posted by theodor38:

about 500 pictures. mostly people and business and technology type of stuff... i make steadily about 100 to 150 a month and it seems to be increasing every month..

What's your gallery number?

01/06/2005 05:18:21 PM · #18

my gallery at shutterstock

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animes2k

01/06/2005 05:27:46 PM · #19

I know I've said this before, but jonpink has a point... If you're going to spend all that time and effort throwing tons of pics up for a measly $0.20 per download, why not spend some time actually trying to sell these images to stock agencies?

With Shutterstock and their ilk, you've got to post a really popular photo to make any money off of it (or a whole LOT of mediocre photos with low download numbers). If the photo is good enough to be popular there, why not sell it rights-managed or to a royalty-free stock agency and make hundreds or thousands of dollars per use?

Of course, if you think your time and photography are worthless, by all means... post on these type of sites. I'll focus on selling individual images for hundreds of dollars "per download".