How to make money with travel photography, 15 websites to sell your photos
Do you love photography and more than making memories do you want to take your travel pictures to the next level? Whether you’re a professional photographer or just like taking pictures in your spare time, you could make a reasonable amount of money by selling your photos online.
How to make money with travel photography
Most people believe it’s necessary to spend a fortune on professional cameras to sell their photos. However, even though great equipment will always help you to improve your images, if you have a decent camera and a little bit of talent, you are ready to take your photography skills to the next level.
15 websites to sell your photos
Here are the best websites to sell your photos:
- Dreamstime
- Twenty 20
- Bigstock
- iStock
- Shutterstock
- Photostockplus
- Shutterpoint
- Fotolia
- Stock Adobe
- 123 Royalty Free
- Can Stock Photo
- Veer
- 500px
- Picfair
- Alamy
You can use PayPal to receive the payments.
Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, now matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it.Put your name in as its director. Now you are a director. Everything after that you are just negotiating your budget and your fee.
-James Cameron.
Each website has different policies and the amount you will earn per photo depends on your subscription type, license and also your lifetime earnings, which is the total amount you’ve earned on a specific platform as a contributor. Just to give you an idea, the most popular websites such as Getty Images, for instance, will start earning 15% and the more you sell, the bigger the percentage you’ll receive or the better your status as a contributor will be. In general, each calendar year, the amount resets.
It’s important to remember, you can sell the same pictures over and over again and besides the resources on this blog post, there are a growing number of ways to monetise your photos. Follow our blog and stay tuned for more.
