For photographers wanting to earn an income from their photos and videos in a professional environment. Ten Killer Internet Companies That Want To Pay You For Photos are just waiting for you to get started, today.
The Internet has created thousands of new and potentially lucrative earning opportunities for millions of photographers around the world. Unlike, the opportunities created for writers, photographers can potentially earn even more than writers, because of the demand both online and offline.
Magazine editors and webmasters, just to name two of them are consistently seeking high quality, unpublished, and unseen photos to publish in magazines and on websites. Many of these individuals and companies have chosen to purchase these photos from a photography broker rather than using widely circulated photos and images usually found on photo sharing websites.
The main reason is because, purchasing photography from a respected broker will ensure that the photos haven’t been seen by the general public and provides the editor or webmaster an unique opportunity to use photography that may attract many more visitors or purchasers of their product.
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ShutterStock is accepting stock photos that is of high quality and they will pay participating photographers $0.25 (US) per photo download. ShutterStock’s clients include magazine editors, webmasters, and individuals searching for high quality photographs to use for whatever purpose that they require.
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For photographers searching for a long-term solution and royalty potential for their finished photography. Pitcha is a service that sells untouched stock photography to companies and individuals requiring unpublished photos to use in their magazines, websites and in other ways and on a royalty-free basis. Photographers will receive 50 percent of any sale and will have the option to submit larger size photos, so to receive a larger potential royalty per sale.
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Now, this is a fantastic opportunity for any photographer whom has photographed a famous celebrity recently. Mr. Paparazzi accepts photos and video clips of celebrities that are high quality and recently taken. Photographer will receive money when Mr. Paparazzi successfully sells a photographer’s photo or video clip. The amount of money that will be paid will depend on several factors including the quality of photos, the celebrity, weather or not, the photos are exclusive (you are the only photographer that took the photos) and other pending factors. You will just have to read Mr. Paparazzi terms and guidelines to see if this program is right for you.
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SIERRA Stock is currently seeking high quality photography to sell to companies and individuals in need of fresh and unpublished photos, so to complete their projects. Photographers can submit their photos (free of charge) to SIERRA Stock in exchange for a commission (currently 70% of final sale). Photographers can unload as many photos as they choose, and track the number of views that their photos receive using their own statistics page.
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Submitting high quality unpublished photography to Nature Photo Index could potentially earn photographers up to 95 percent of each photo sell.
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FotoLibra is seeking high quality, unpublished, and unseen photography from photographers wanting to make a 50% royalty for their photos. FotoLibra handles all of the sales, paperwork, marketing, billing and storage of your photos and all you have to do is submit your photos and collect a royalty check (for all photo sales of your own) every 30 days.
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DotPhotoPro empowers professional photographers the opportunity to sell, organize and promote their unpublished, unseen photo online. Photographers can upload unlimited photo albums and events free of charge, and are able to receive 85% commission from each sale. Membership is free and payments are paid out twice monthly.
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Zymmetrical provides an opportunity to all photographers, graphic artists, and video jockeys looking to profit from their finished work. This company sells art under a single Royalty-free license agreement model on behalf of all participating artists. Artists and photographers will earn a 70% commission of the retail sale. Participating artists can control the prices charged for each photo from $3 to $100, so to provide an additional opportunity to encourage more sales overall.
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Dreamstime is seeking quality-based photos to include into their database to sell to industry professionals, editors, webmasters and individuals wanting high quality unpublished photos. Photographers earn a commission every time one of their photos is sold. Photographers are paid a 50% commission for each sold photo and will earn a 60% commission on exclusive images and will earn an additional $0.20 bonus for each approved submission (For exclusive images, only). Not all photos submitted will be approved, because Dreamstime is seeking only quality-based photos and Dreamstime’s product review staff must approve all photos.
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Photographers can submit their photography to Picable and receive a monthly royalty based on the number of times each of their photos have been viewed in a 30 day time period. Picable pays a 50% royalty that is earned from sponsor advertising and photographers are paid on the 15th day of every month. Picable members can keep track of their earnings and views of each of their submitted photography by using their own control panel. Picable members have expressed the thrill that follows once actual earnings are tallied at the end of each day.
March 30th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
great article Nelson! Good information, great for photographers to make money on the side!
March 30th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Great article, Nelson. As usual, very thorough and easy to understand useful information. Thank you. I’m forwarding this to my camera buff friends.
March 30th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
This is the type of information that I have unsuccessfully been able to locate on the Internet myself. I am aware of a couple of these companies, but the other 80% of the companies listed in this article I have never heard of before now.
Mr. Nelson, Thank you for writing this article and make it easy to find so many great photography income opportunities on the Internet. I don’t usually bookmark articles, but this one will be my first.
March 30th, 2008 at 6:45 pm
This is an interesting post. You should submit it at yearblook.com/submit.php. Yearblook is a competition to find each day’s best blog posts. At the end of the year, the 365 best posts (1 from each day) will be published in a book (a real, printed book, you will find it on Amazon).
If you’re not ready to post your articles yet, browse around and see if there is anything you find interesting.
Also, since we’re just starting out, we would love any feedback you are willing to share.
March 31st, 2008 at 4:10 am
Nice one Nelson..Stumbled.
March 31st, 2008 at 6:42 am
what a useful and interesting collection of sites. Great work.
March 31st, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Nelson,
As a beginner digital photographer, this is an excellent article. Thank you very much for taking the time to collect them and offer them to us!
April 1st, 2008 at 10:27 am
Maybe you should also mention for all of these instant wannabees all the things they’ll need to learn if they want to do photography as a business, like ColorSpace, Raw Conversions, Intellectual Property issues like Copyright, Model Releases, Property Releases, trademark infringements, business insurance, liability coverage for shoots, etc..
You could also call this entry, “10 places that you can sell your photos and possibly get yourself sued if you don’t know what you’re doing…”
April 8th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
Excellent article and very informative. Thanks for sharing.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Useful and very informative article..
May 10th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
Hey all…Can someone shed a little light on what has happened with sierrastock.com. The site won’t even pull up anymore. I have photos posted there and have no idea what happened to the site. Anybody know anything on this??? Thanks James
July 15th, 2008 at 6:30 am
It’s an excelent idea for earn money by anybody’s photography.
December 27th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
quite informative
January 9th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
sierra stock is out of business as well as nature photo index any comments ???
January 13th, 2009 at 5:43 am
Hi jzeus -
Yes, I see that a couple of the websites have gone out of business and this article will be updated with new information this week. Thank you for pointing this out to me, so that I can have this fixed as soon as possible.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
January 21st, 2009 at 4:46 pm
are there any companies like photo index or sierra stock that accet photos and you set the price
February 10th, 2009 at 3:38 am
Hi Nelson
Great Supporting Article…Excellent, We expecting more information about photography for amateur photographer like me…
Thanks Man
Kamal
February 10th, 2009 at 4:08 am
Hi Nelson…
Kamal again…
I have to ask few question to u. it may be guide me and others also. pls answer my question,
1. can we take this profession as full time job. is that will be safe side career?
2. Generally, How much of amount will get per month?
Thanks
Kamal
May 12th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
I was thinking about getting into the business of selling my photos but i do not know about how to go about doing this. Any suggestions. Thanks Linda
June 5th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
FotoLibra … interesting.
July 4th, 2009 at 7:38 am
This is cool - some great oportunities for people!