Get Paid for Photos
Another way of earning money online is by sharing original photographs/images. If you enjoy photography and have some experience in taking good photographs, you can earn money from them!
There are some Photography websites who pay their members submitting their original photographs. Whenever the photographs submitted by the user are used or downloaded, the user will earn money! These websites are usually very popular and cater to magazines, website and other publishing companies. So you can be sure that your photographs will get exposure and you will earn money from good quality and creative photography. The websites that pay for photography are listed below:
1.BigStockPhoto – Before you start selling your images on BigStockPhoto, their review team must approve them. Pay As You Go purchases will pay you 30% of the US dollar price when someone downloads a single image. This can equal up to $29.70. When someone buys your image using BigStock credits, you will receive $0.50 for every credit spent.
2.ShutterPoint– Shutterpoint makes it easy to join and start selling your photos immediately. They accept all types of photos, so there isn’t a test or acceptance process before you can start selling. They also mention a bulk upload tool, so you can upload many photos quickly. They have a payout rate of 85% for Full Royalty Free images, and 70% for Standard Royalty Free images.
3.Fotolia – You can sign up for a free account,then, you just upload your images and give them relevant tags. Fotolia breaks down your ability to earn into 2 categories. The first one is for single image downloads and you can earn anywhere from 20%- 63% for each image, but this rate depends on if you are exclusive to Fotolia, and what your ranking is. The second rate is for when your image is sold via subscription download. You can earn 0.25 credits to 0.40 credits.
4.Corbis– Corbis is a professional stock photography site that also allows for photography submissions. You have to fill out an application, but it doesn’t say anywhere on the site what your compensation will be, the rates, how it works, or any details. Corbis is not as user-friendly and straightforward about compensation as the other sites listed here are.
5.DepositPhotos – Sign up for an account, pass a quick exam , and then you can start uploading images. The only snag is that each image has to be approved before it is officially displayed on the site to be sold. Their pay scale is similar to that of Dreamstime, where your images increase in level when they sell a certain amount. The higher the level is, the more money you make from each sale. They have a chart with examples available on their site. One stand out feature that they have is that you can sell vector images as well, but you have to upload them in the format specified.
6.Crestock - You’ll receive 30 percent of the price of every image you sell through Crestock. Sign up is simple — that registration takes care of most of the site’s requirements. As soon as you’re registered, you can start uploading photos immediately.
7.SmugMug - This website is a lot like an online gallery or portfolio – with the added benefit of being able to sell your photos online via the tool too. You can set your own pricing and you get to keep 85% of the markup – but that’s not all, as well as selling digital downloads, you have the option of selling prints and greetings cards too, which is good for those of us who want more selling options.
8.On Alamy photographers earn a whopping 60% royalty fee on any images they sell, so it’s easy to see why this website is such a popular choice when it comes to selling photos online. It’s one of the world’s largest stock photo libraries
9.Can Stock Photo offers photographers a 50% royalty fee which is great if you’re just starting out. Once you’re a member it’s easy to submit images and you can get going almost immediately.
10.Zenfolio allows you to create a portfolio site of your work. You can upload photos, create galleries, password protect galleries, and make your photos available for purchase – a great option for wedding and event photographers where you might make several sales off the back of one event. There is a 14-day free trial available if you want to give it a spin first.