Make Money with your photos

24 Mar, 2008 Money Makers, websites

Make your hobby pay!

Do you like to take pictures but you wouldn’t call yourself a professional photographer & your pictures aren’t being displayed in magazines? Do you like to dabble in photography taking pictures of landscapes, objects, & other artful things? Do friends & family complement you on your photography skills? You can turn this little hobby in to a part time money maker. People, websites, & companies are looking for stock photo’s to use just like the ones you may be taking.

There is a website called istockphoto that you can submit your photo’s and it’s customers can purchase them. Not only can you submit photos but illustrations, flash, & videos. The photos etc are bought with credits that can be purchased. For example you can buy 10 credits for $13 but the more credits you buy the cheaper they are. The photos are sold in different sizes and different resolutions with the larger or higher resolutions costing more, videos & illustrations are sold in the same way. You can browse the top photos to see what types of photos are selling best & submit similar ones. Right now the top photo has sold close to 10,000 times! That’s a lot of money made on that photo.

This is a great way to make some extra money with your hobby. It’s very simple to get started and doesn’t take a lot of time to either.

Comments

3 Responses to “Make Money with your photos”

Cinnamon on March 25th, 2008 9:25 am

Hey, awesome post! I have a bunch of pictures that are pretty but that I really have no use for. Thanks!
Jenny on March 31st, 2008 11:18 pm

I use dreamstime.com too. If your first few photos are excepted, they let you upload fairly willy nilly
scorilo on April 2nd, 2008 1:24 am

sounds prety cool i ‘ll sure give it a try