How to make money selling your photos online 2021
If you think photography is an expensive hobby, you’re right, it can be – but that doesn’t mean you need pro-quality equipment to make money from your photos! In fact, if you’ve got a decent phone cam and a steady hand, you’re already in with a shot.
However you get your clicks, there are a growing number of opportunities to monetise photos you’ve already taken.
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If you’ve got a digital camera, you’ll have more options for selling pics to stock libraries, to sites for prints, or for print-on-demand products.
Selling photos through a stock site is a top way to surf passive income streams: you can upload a photo once and sell it over and over again, pretty much forever!
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Don’t get too hung up about rejections, though – join multiple sites and post pics to all of them to get the best possible coverage.
Which sites pay most?
Dreamstime offer up to 60% for exclusives. How much your photo sells for also goes up the more it’s downloaded: newbie images start at between $0.34 and $2.38 (USD).
Getty Images hands over 15% of an image’s sales price, but promise a bigger cut if you make the pic exclusive to the site. Photos typically sell for $7 or $20 a go, but the type of licence or subscription plan the customer buys determines how your slice is calculated.
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Shutterstock coughs up $0.25 (USD) per sale on the most common subscription plans, but say you’ll get a bigger cut as your lifetime earnings pass various levels. To put that into context, once you’ve earned $10,000, you’ll be bumped up to the heady heights of 38 cents an image…
