Make money selling digital photos Part VI. The 6th part in this ongoing tutorial about making money selling digital photos focuses on promoting similar groups of images all linked to each other.
My experience is only with iStockphoto , as mentioned before, your ability to do the following promotional method with other stock agencies may vary. In the photographer’s description section of an image on iStockphoto, you as a contributor are allowed to add more information about your file to help the buyer understand exactly what it is they are buying. This field also allows for UBB code, that is, code that can simply be used to create links or show images of related photos for sale. So why would you want to use this? I often shoot the same subject on two or three angles, with people, different expressions.
Recently, this photo of a pair of DJ headphones became really popular, but I shot a half dozen similar shots that weren’t doing so well. Longtime contributor and admin Sirimo wrote a small script that he hosts on his website. Make money selling digital photos Part V. Back in the first part of this series, I briefly touched on the importance of keywords.
This article will be all about keywords, how to choose them, how different people choose them and why some work better than others. Keywords are what buyers type into the search boxes to find your images, it is far and away the primary way that a buyer will get to see your image. It is fair to say that the more time you invest into keywording, checking your keywords and updating them will give you greater returns over just putting enough to get you by and never updating them. It is my strong belief that an average image will do exceptionally well if the contributor can understand how designers think and search for images. iStockphoto.com has 2.2 million images on it, focusing time and energy on making your images more search friendly will greatly increase the chances that a buyer will find your images.
A great image with stellar keywords will succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Make money selling digital photos Part IV. The first three parts to this have gone very well and I’d like to welcome all the new reader to Randomn3ss who found there way here via Get Rich Slowly and all the other various blogs and social networking sites that have linked to the stories.
I have had several questions asked and will be making Part IV of the series a Q&A post. On with the questions and answers! What kind of money can you make selling stock photography through these sites? Because I’ve only really used iStockphoto, I can only comment on them. I had considered using others, but my relationship has been very good and their customer support is top notch. Didn’t want to be bothered with joining several other sites and re-uploading files, along with key wording all of them again.Better rights management – If an image of mine gets used in an unauthorized manor, I know they could have only got it from one place, which makes tracking down the buyer of that image much easier. Make money selling digital photos Part III. Part I and Part II have been going over very well thus far, so now we are onto the third installment in this series, focusing on selecting photographs which will both be accepted and excel.
I won’t be covering many actual photograph techniques; I’m assuming you know the basics by now, this will be more focused on image selection, ideas of shooting and using older images. Referencing Part I in the series, Can you capture images other than your immediate surrounds? Was asked. A quick search on iStockphoto for the word keyboard results in an astounding 7,428 files. If a designer can’t find what they need in all those files, they should quit their job! Make money selling digital photos Part II. In the previous article I started to give an overview of what stock photography was and what all was involved.
In this article and moving forward I will be explaining more about key areas and about how I got involved with stock photography and what has and has not worked with me. To start off this article, I’ll give a little background on myself. I’ve been shooting for about seven years now on an advanced amateur slash semi-professional level and for fun since I was 13 or so. Camera’s and photography have always intrigued me, but I won’t bore you with an actual bio, you can read it on my personal site if you’d like (which still needs updating). Around 2002 is when I was first introduced to stock photography, ironically through a design friend of mine who told me about it.
Before I knew what hit me, I was captivated with selling photographs and had earned nearly $15 in less then two weeks, which is a lot of nickels! Is the obvious one, but it doesn’t have to be. Related articles: Make money selling digital photos Part I. Title sounds great, doesn’t it?
Who doesn’t want to make a little extra cash these days? With the price of digital cameras dropping on what seems to be a daily basis, as seen here , you might as well put yours to some use. For the last 5 years I have been selling royalty free stock photographs and will share my thoughts, ideas and concepts with you, along with some suggestions on getting started. What is stock photography? The Wikipedia entry for stock photography states Stock photography consists of existing photographs that can be licensed for specific uses. In a nutshell, that sums it up. Moving on, how can you start making money?
Silly question, but putting together time to upload full sized files takes time, as does editing them and giving full descriptions. In order to sell a photograph, you need to give the buyer something they can’t grab themselves. One of the best ways to sell a photograph is to have someone in it. Self-editing can be a photographer’s biggest downfall.