There are several stock photography websites that
want your pictures. These sites will pay you a
percentage for every one of your pictures that gets
downloaded, each time it is downloaded. Your
pictures can be downloaded an unlimited number of
times.
Many individuals, businesses, organizations,
websites and print publications are in constant need
of a wide variety of quality photographs for their
websites, sales letters, brochures, magazines,
videos and newspapers. These entities regularly turn
to stock photography websites to buy the photographs
that they need.
You can submit your digital photographs to websites
like iStock and Shutterstock. You don't need to be a
professional photographer. You just need a digital
camera (with extra memory cards) and internet
access. Signing up for these websites is free. Each
time one of your pictures is downloaded you'll get
paid a percentage of the cost of the photograph,
which generally comes to twenty-five cents to
several dollars.
Just about any type of digital picture is accepted
as long as it is of high quality. Your pictures need
to be in JPG/JPEG and for most stock websites they
should be 1600 x 1200 pixels or larger. New
photographers for Shutterstock need to submit
photographs that are 4.0 Megapixels or Million
Pixels (MP).
You can calculate the number of pixels in a
photograph by multiplying the width by the height. A
picture that is 1600x1200 is 1.92 million pixels.
In photographs that depict a minor, or where an
identifiable human face is visible, you will need to
send a model release with the picture to the
website. You need to submit original work and make
sure that you do not include copyrighted material or
logos in your images. Do not submit photographs that
have been increased in size from their original file
size. You should read the submission guidelines from
each website before you start posting your pictures.
Once you have uploaded a picture to a stock
photography website, it stays there for as long as
you like (even for years). Every time it gets
downloaded you earn money. You can upload your
pictures to several different websites as long as
the websites allow the submission of non-exclusive
photographs.
For example: let's say that you have accumulated
1,000 high quality photographs for stock photography
websites. You upload each image to ten different
websites. So each site now has 1,000 different
pictures. You have a total of 10,000 images uploaded
on the various sites. If each of your pictures get
downloaded just twice every thirty days, and your
commission is only $0.25 cents for each download,
you'll be making $5,000 a month!
You can take ten pictures a day and upload each one
to ten different stock photography websites. In just
three months you'll have about 900 photographs
uploaded 9,000 times.
What is really cool about this is that once your
pictures are uploaded they continue to make money
for you with no additional work on your part. If you
continuously upload pictures to the stock websites
you can earn even more. There are several people
that do this full-time and make $5,000, even $8,000
a month.
Most of the stock websites pay you once a month
through PayPal, MoneyBookers, paper check or direct
deposit.
You can start by taking pictures in your area, or
travel anywhere and make a very healthy living by
taking stock photographs. The more pictures you
upload, the more earning potential you have. You can
make great money from this "job" from just about
anywhere in the world.
By:
Thomas Carroll
About the Author
Thomas Carroll was born in California and now lives
in Lima, Peru. He enjoys making money while
traveling and shows others how to do it too on his
website
http://www.lonewolfadventure.net
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