Selling digital photos is not a difficult thing to do, but you do need to be aware of how the industry really works. The photos on stock photo web-sites are not simply your regular pictures taken on a family trip. So what do you have to know in order to sell your photos?
The photos that SELL are marketable, usable images, ones that you can find on leaflets, internet sites, rack cards, or other artistic campaign pieces. Prior to submitting each image, consider the reasons individuals might purchase that photo, as well as WHO would buy it. Would your picture interest digital artists, graphic designers, art directors, marketing agencies and others, or is it more along the line of a “my mother loves it” picture? Stay clear of the latter... they won't be profitable, and selling your digital photgraphy is about being profitable!
You need to figure out how to assign key words for and categorize your images. Think of this as the way you are building multiple links for the artists or designers to find your particular photograph. If the concept of keywords is confusing, a simple way to make it clear is to get you to have a look at your picture, and think of everything one could enter into a search engine (like google) in order to find a picture like yours. These can be your keywords. The greater the accuracy, the better for promoting and selling your digital photgraphy!
If you are interested in selling your digital photgraphy with stock photo websites, you absolutely need to know what kinds of images are actually selling. Why waste your time shooting and uploading photos that will not earn you cash? And what types of images ARE selling? The very best advice I can provide you would be to look at the stock photo websites themselves. Browse through the photos already on the sites, and take some notes. You can learn a lot about the kinds of photos you need to be uploading to that specific site. A quick hint of what you will see? Bright, attention-grabbing, colourful, focused, image-specific photographs. Browse the web-sites and get ideas! Selling your digital photgraphy is something you CAN do, even if you are not a professional photographer... but you will want to do it right!
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