How to Sell Photographs and Make Money

There is always a huge demand for good quality, unique photographs, and many online agencies are ready to pay for them. You can start the online photo selling venture from home with a small budget.

Skills For Online Photo Selling

For starting an online photo selling business, you need to know not only about photography but also about salable photographs and how to create an excellent quality salable photograph. Your photos should be bright, colorful, sharp, and tell a story that fits the theme.

You can take some tutorial classes for photography online or in person. Also, you will need to have photo editing knowledge.

To create an online salable photograph you need to be equipped with skills of cropping and straightening, levels and curves, shadows and highlights as Photoshop CS, color saturation, etc. If you want to enhance your skills, we strongly recommend checking this course on photography

Equipment For Online Photo Selling

To start an online photo selling business camera and computer are the primary requirement. It is always advisable to use a minimum 8-megapixel camera and shoot with a digital DSLR camera. Buy appropriate lenses according to your camera and what kind of photo you want to shoot.

For interiors/architecture and landscape it is recommended to go for a wide-angle lens. For portraits/still photo is a standard or a small telephoto lens. For outdoor/press is telephoto lens is recommended.

Online Photo Selling Business Model

Do some research on the advertising or marketing materials that are available in the market. Checks out what kind of photos are being used in what type of advertisement. Whatever you want to shoot view the object from a photographer point of view. Always carry a release form with you. You will need to submit the signed release form, from the people in the photos.

There are two ways you can start an online photo selling business and earn money.

Firstly, You can visit online photo selling marketplaces and submit your photographs there. There are many online agencies are there globally; who accepts photographs and make the deal with the buyer and you will get the price for that.

Some of the most popular online photo selling websites are Fotolia, Shutterstock, Alamy, iStockphoto, Dreamstime, SmugMug, Flickr, 123rf, Photodune, etc. You can read our article on Top Stock Photography Sites to Sell your Photos for more information.

Secondly, You can create your own photography website with a blog and upload your photographs with the price. You can read our detailed guide on how to create a photography blog.

We would recommend you to go for both if you are serious about making good money.

If you want to start an online photo selling business creating your own website there is a need to do some online promotion of your website. Also, you can go to social media sites like Facebook to start with.