How you can make money from all the great photos you’ve already taken.
Today, there are many professional photographers who will tell you that stock photography is dead. But that isn’t the case at all. True, the market for stock images has changed dramatically over recent years. In the ‘good old days’, you could get good returns from a few images – but with the proliferation of images and low-cost ‘microstock’ sites, nowadays the returns per sale of individual images can be extremely low. This means that making an income from stock images is now mostly about getting many lower-return sales, rather than a few bigger ones.
Do your research
There are many stock libraries that could sell your images, so you need to do some research to find the right one for you. You should check that the library wants the type of images that you can supply, and then make sure that your images will meet their guidelines. Most of the larger libraries will then require you to register, and submit a small number of images for approval. This process is critical, so make sure that you only submit your very best images. Once these have been accepted, you will be able to upload more, although some libraries still have a limit of the number you can submit per week or per month.
Once you have started to upload your images to the site, your work doesn’t stop there. The first thing you need to do, with some sites, is to decide on how your images will be sold. There are two main ways that libraries license images, which can affect how much money you will get for them. These are royalty-free (RF) and rights-managed (RM).
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة August 2018 من Digital Camera World.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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