Have a lot of photos? Make some extra money with stock photography!
By Pigglies
@Pigglies (9329)
United States
November 24, 2006 10:01pm CST
I've made nearly $100 in a little over a year with stock photography. I only have about 250 photos up. The more photos you put up, the more potential you have to earn. Once the photos are up, you just sit back and wait for the money to come in.
http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=gyD1FGl9wP
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35 responses
@gifana (4833)
• Portugal
25 Nov 06
This is good to know. I have never posted photos before but this idea will give me a chance to learn how. I've got quite a few photographs of places I've been and I always considered myself a pretty good photographer. When I travelled to Nepal I carried three cameras....color prints, color slides and black and white. Have some good ones near the Chinese border. Who knows might be worth it. Thanks so much.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Check out the link and see some more info on it. Or ask me a specific question and I'll let you know. The minimum payout is $30 there. But the cool thing is, even if they don't approve your photos initially, you don't have to wait again to submit more photos, you can just keep trying (some sites make you wait 3 months to try again).
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@annihilus (2181)
• Italy
26 Nov 06
please... but who pay dollars for buying photo online? please do you want to post your batch payment?
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@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
26 Nov 06
Batch payment?
I've made $16 this month. I have over 250 photos up currently. I'd say you really need to put up 100 photos to see some decent earnings. But hey, it's like free money and takes far less time than MyLot.
Website designers and others buy the photos. You can also allow your photos to be used in computer games, brochures, on t-shirts, etc. and will get paid more money if you do.
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@cachitodemialma (1313)
• United States
25 Nov 06
I like the idea of this, I will join it.
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@KrauseHome (36448)
• United States
26 Nov 06
This does not look like something that would interest me though, but Thanks for sharing the link.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
28 Nov 06
Photos of people, including children, are very popular. If they're your own kids, it'll be easy for you to fill out the modeling release. Unfortunately, I still don't know anyone who will let me take photos of them to put on there. If someone would sign modeling releases for wedding photos, I'd even give a discount! But so far, no takers.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
27 Nov 06
You're welcome! I had a hard time finding a place for stock photography too, so I wanted to share and help people find a money making method. :)
It's pretty fun too. I also like that they comment on your work if it doesn't get accepted and help you to learn what you should improve on.
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
29 Dec 06
Very cool! That's how I feel, I love just sitting around earning money and not having to do something. After I uploaded the photos initially, I didn't need to put more up unless I wanted to. I've been at 250 or so for quite some time now and tend to make $16 a month off that. $16 extra dollars per month for photos I would have taken anyway.
I also make money with writing, but then I actually have to write stuff (although, I can use school papers I've already written).
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@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
31 Dec 06
This looks to be a reasonable concern. However, I would urge anyone thinking of joining to read the Tutorial, Terms of Service and Conditions very thoroughly. DO NOT skip over the Terms of Service when signing up. Copyright laws with respect to photos are complicated and you do not want to find that you are giving away more than you intended to. I am not saying that these people are out to rip you off but especially when you put your property on the Internet for other people to sell, you want to be absolutely sure that you are not signing away more than you intend to. If you are unsure, then stay away.
I know that website design is not a reliable guide to a company's reputation but I have seen better, cleaner designs and if I were a customer, I think I would tend to be put off buying by this website's home page.
@owlwings (43915)
• Cambridge, England
31 Dec 06
I had a further look at the site. The photos they have are high quality, so I would feel confident about submitting photos to the site (there is good quality control). You would need to be able to match that quality to stand a chance of selling anything, I think.
If you like taking photos but feel that your photos lack that sparkle, you could do well to invest in a course on photography, either online or at a local further education centre. The cost could well be recouped by putting your successes on a site like this.
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@gittabest (1946)
• Iceland
29 Dec 06
Hi, thanx for the link I really want to try it but I'm
not so great at taking pictures, I was looking at some on this site and they are all so professional, do you think I still have a chance? I do have good photos but they are not so many and my camera is 5m.pixles
Thanx again and have a happy new year
@gittabest (1946)
• Iceland
31 Dec 06
They have accepted 2 of my pictures :)
and 23 more are
waiting for the site to accept them :D
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@ContentWriter (954)
• South Africa
27 Nov 06
Thanks that looks really great! What kind of resolution requirements do they have?
I have great photo's from a crappy camera :P Do they accept lower res photo's?
Again thanks for sharing this is great!
@ContentWriter (954)
• South Africa
28 Nov 06
Wow that's great!
So my current 1024X768 would be fine then?
I'm getting quite excited about this :) Looks fantastic - I've been browsing the other photo's and they all look professional and slick. Are you a professional photographer - or just a hobby?
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
28 Nov 06
Yes, that would be fine. It says that photos must be at least 800 pixels either wide or high (so as long as one of the numbers is greater than that, it's fine). So no more photos at only 640x480. But larger is fine.
I'm mostly just a hobby photographer. :) But I did work as a pet photographer for about 6 months. I'd love to work as a photographer again, but now I'm a bit wary of photography companies after the last one didn't pay me $1,600. :(
@Pigglies (9329)
• United States
28 Nov 06
You know, they used to accept photos down to 640x480. However, I think now it is 1600x1200. If you have a 3 megapixel camera, you should be able to submit photos.
I used to have a very nice 2 megapixel camera (still have it actually), and they accepted a lot of those photos even though they are small.
However, on small photos you only get 50 cents commission per photo (not bad, they just recently changed to give more money for larger photos). On larger photos if someone wants the large version, you get $1 commission from it. That's per time someone downloads your photo. I've had several photos downloaded more than once and one downloaded I think 11 times. They've got people on there with photos that have been downloaded 100 times. Even at 50 cents they'd have made $50 from a single photo.
Best of luck!
@kingadnan (1538)
• Pakistan
29 Dec 06
Weldone dude ,,, Keep it up i will also upload some picture, thanks dude. Wel i will check it out thanks
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