Sell Your Digital Photos Online - What to Take
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How to Sell Your Digital Photos online
Digital Photos are great ! and most photographers would like to sell digital photos online p>
But how to sell photos and where to do it ? The Answer for many Photographers is Microstock.Or specifically Speaking Microstock Info. (That is - what really sells !)
But most of all What Digital Photos to sell ?
Selling digital photos is an art. Most people send in the wrong things.
When most people take digital photos and then look at starting to sell through a Microstock agency,they just send all their existing digital photos - and are then upset when the photos are rejected.
Here's how to send pictures that are wanted and Sell !
Microstock agencies operate either by selling subscriptions or by selling a version of Royalty Free Stock Photos. In either case you get paid per download and you want LOTS of downloads to make it worthwhile.
You need to show up on a stock photo search on search engines to succeed.
Photrade (Beta)
Thanks to Shoemoney for this information.
Photrade is not an agency nor is
it a print on demand business like Cafepress or Zazzle.
As far as I can gather you upload pictures in a similar way to
Flickr and you get a percentage of any use or adverts or merchandise sold. Hmmmm.....
it a print on demand business like Cafepress or Zazzle.
As far as I can gather you upload pictures in a similar way to
Flickr and you get a percentage of any use or adverts or merchandise sold. Hmmmm.....
So what did you think of photrade ?
For a while i've been aware that several of my pictures have been ripped off from my FLickr photos and used.
(Thats apart from the cheapskates who want to use my pictures for free and ask if they can... my reply is "are you geting paid to produce/edit this project ?")- I have never had any reply to that question !
Now I don't mind donating photos to Greenpeace or any genuine helpful charity project but not just because someone doesn't want to use and pay for pictures thank you !
I read about Photrade on www.shoemoney.com (which i seriously suggest you read too !)
The video above is a bit on the tacky side and was in a cheap booth at a trade show somewhere.
That isn't the best place to make a video because people are tired and confused at trade shows.
Now I've never hear of Photrade but the only thing they seem to be offering is an additional share of ad revenue /stock photography use and merchandise money.
Nice addition perhaps but they will probably be deluged with amateur photos of all kinds of stuff and I think users wll want to go to Alamy/Bigstockphoto/Getty/Corbis/Jupiter before going to a startup company.
I could be wrong and I hope this works out for Photrade.
But I personally think it is maybe too late trying to enter an already overcrowded industry.
What do You think ?
(Thats apart from the cheapskates who want to use my pictures for free and ask if they can... my reply is "are you geting paid to produce/edit this project ?")- I have never had any reply to that question !
Now I don't mind donating photos to Greenpeace or any genuine helpful charity project but not just because someone doesn't want to use and pay for pictures thank you !
I read about Photrade on www.shoemoney.com (which i seriously suggest you read too !)
The video above is a bit on the tacky side and was in a cheap booth at a trade show somewhere.
That isn't the best place to make a video because people are tired and confused at trade shows.
Now I've never hear of Photrade but the only thing they seem to be offering is an additional share of ad revenue /stock photography use and merchandise money.
Nice addition perhaps but they will probably be deluged with amateur photos of all kinds of stuff and I think users wll want to go to Alamy/Bigstockphoto/Getty/Corbis/Jupiter before going to a startup company.
I could be wrong and I hope this works out for Photrade.
But I personally think it is maybe too late trying to enter an already overcrowded industry.
What do You think ?
Your Opinion on Photrade
My view might be a bit jaundiced so investigate Photrade for yourself and give your SERIOUS opinion below. All visitors are welcome to comment (and yes you can use html to promo your website !)
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amianderson
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- Thanks for the giving me a useful information about this try this one link also. Yuri Arcurs Stock Photography helps you find Quality stock photography, stock photos, stock images and pictures, fast.
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- I haven;t checked out Photrade as of yet but will look into it. At this moment I am at Zazzle and Redbubble, i have made a sale or two at both places but nothing to brag about. Would love to find a way to boost both traffic and sales. Thanks for the info about Photrade though, will check it out. In the meantime i would love it if you stopped by http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/188875/hena_tayeb.html for a quick hello.
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cwwphotography
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- Well i haven't checked out photrade but i too have a shop at cafepress and a gallery at zazzle, i made my first sales at cafepress about a month ago but nothing on zazzle as yet. I only got into photography about a year ago but i am now looking into trying to sell some of my work. If you haven't heard of it i would reccomend redbubble.com where you can sell prints of your photography, although i mainly use it to get other peoples thoughts on my photography. cwwphotography
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KEYWORDS ARE *** REALLY *** IMPORTANT
They are almost as important as the picture.
Keywords (also called tags) are what the customer uses to look for pictures - search machines (even the smart ones) use variations on key words to look for photos.You MUST use as many variations as you can think of to get good response to your pictures.
Take the Statue of Liberty for example - how many words that describe it can you think of ? and how many themes does it suggest - or emotions - or what variants/colours/moods ?
Have a look on istockphoto for Statue of Liberty and see how many keywords they use it will be at least 20 or even 50 or 60 !
Make a list on notepad and simplify your keywording with cut and Paste.
Good Keywording is the answer to Microstock success
(OK and great pictures too !)
There's more free information on keywording on My
Keyword and SEO Page where all is revealed !
P.O.D.
Print on Demand
There are several companies that enable you to upload your photos and sell them on the internet to their customers.I've been using Cafepress. com and they have made some sales for me.
Currently I'm trying Zazzle and they seems to have a slightly easier system with some really neat widgets you can use on Myspace Facebook and your own blog or website Have a look at mine on
http://fotos4web.blogspot.com (I finally found the BLOG Widget and now it works just fine - don't use the website one or it will mess up your blog !)
I don't have many pictures there so its too early to tell how it will go.
My Gallery there is
www.zazzle.com/irishdreams
Both of these companies take quite a while to upload photos and I found that zazzle is a lot better at resizing pictures (Cafepress is a bit finicky about having the pictures about 1/2 in bigger on both sides)
Cafepress has a wider range of products to put pictures on (putting photos on their messenger bags is a bit tricky as they look awful on the yellow background).
Zazzle has MUCH bigger posters and very well priced canvas prints - so you could put your photos on your website (see what I have done with Cafepress on www.fotos4web.com where I copied the product pictures and linked them to Cafepress who will process the transaction and send me the money !)
You can do the same thing with Zazzle and they have the widget I mentioned which is currently nestling on the front page of my website. Its pretty sexy (marketing-wise !) and versatile.
Zazle has a super choice of models to show your t-shirts on and this is an excellect additional feature.
Both companies allow you to set your own prices but Zazzle allows you to sell canvas or other prints at higher prices than Cafepress.
This is a huge advantage if you are selling limited edition prints and you can offer a package of print and frame as well.
I also have pictures on Artscafe.com which is in Hong Kong and they have even more products to sell with your pictures. They include worldwide postage on their prices which is quite neat.There is a monthly fee for that.
I will be doing a full report on all of these on my blog at www.fotos4web.blogspot.com over the next two weeks. Its a special on Printing on Demand Services and what to look for.
I should mention that Cafepress has a basic free shop to try out and a paid and more expandable and modifiable one at a modest fee.
My Cafepress store is at
www.cafepress.com/fotos4web
Zazzles Galleries are all free so it s worth looking there.
It might be worth considering a different gallery for each subject .. or what do you think ?
Nice feature at Zazzle is comments on each photo and the ability to sell other peoples photos inyour gallery and get commission on them (but I'm still exploring that !)
What I find difficult with ZAZZLE is finding how to edit things once you have made them.
It would be nice to offer variants of product like mousepads with different borders etc.
You can also make your own REAL US POSTAGE STAMPS on Zazzle and these look so cool !
If you are using Zazzle or Cafepress please tell us how you are getting on in the next section.
Your View of CafePress vs Zazzle
Selling pictures on products is a neat way to expose your images !
Have you tried either of these ?
How have you done with them ?
Do you think you will try them ?
Have you bought from them ?
Let us have YOUR views !
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How to Join Cafepress ..
There are many people making big money from selling products through CafePress.
Why not join them with a FREE shop ?
Why not join them with a FREE shop ?
How to Join Zazzle
Just Click here :www.zazzle.com/irishdreams
Its easy to sign up and you can start a FREE Gallery and even sell other peoples products off Zazzle for a commission !
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Some people are making over $1000 a month from P.O.D.
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Self Publicist !
Tell the World about Your Pictures,
You've taken great photos and you are justifiably proud of them.
But you have to get them out there in the big wide world.
THe first suggestion I have is to open a Free account with Flickr.com.
Now shrink copies of your pictures to about 200 pixels (biggest side) and upload those to your Flickr website.
Make a Squidoo Lens
Make a Squidoo Lens and with the Flickr module,show the world your photo showcase. This takes about an hour or less to do and enables you when writing to Microstock agencies to point them to your Showcase and they can then quickly visit it to inspect your work. Top Tip - make several modules for your showcase each on a different Subject and this looks more Professional and Organised.
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But you have to get them out there in the big wide world.
THe first suggestion I have is to open a Free account with Flickr.com.
Now shrink copies of your pictures to about 200 pixels (biggest side) and upload those to your Flickr website.
Make a Squidoo Lens
Make a Squidoo Lens and with the Flickr module,show the world your photo showcase. This takes about an hour or less to do and enables you when writing to Microstock agencies to point them to your Showcase and they can then quickly visit it to inspect your work. Top Tip - make several modules for your showcase each on a different Subject and this looks more Professional and Organised.
To write your own Showcase lens (don't forget to use your Name in the lens title)
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Microstock and Stock Photography Books. These are the books I seriously recommend for anyone starting in stock photography. Just click on the photo to read more at Amazon.com
Tags = CASH !
A tag is what tells a search engine what's on your photo.Without tags on your photos you will get NO searches to your website for those specific photos.
That's how important it is.
So a picture of a girl in a bikini should have at least 20 tags (I always put the important ones first incase the search engines only accept three or four tags.
You can tag your photos through any program like photoshop,imageready etc.
Many Microstock companies ask you to tag pictures as you upload them - this is normal.If you have a batch of pictures with the same tags then just cut and paste them.
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People Pictures Sell
One lady has just broken the 25000$ downloads in the USA !
The most saleable and downloadable for subscriptions) subject is definitely PEOPLE. To see what sells just go to any of the major Microstock agencies and look at how many downloads on subjects like babies,women,men,teenagers and you'll see what I mean.
Actually that's a pretty good way to do your research on ANY subject - what people actually download ! The higher the number the more worthwhile it is to shoot.
That reminds me - I saw that one photographer was selling a lot on Shutterstock (a good company) so I went to HIS website and gave up waiting after 20 minutes - don't let that happen to you ! I'd guess that hundreds of his customers gave up too ! _
Make sure your website is up and running properly .
I edited photographers work for over 40 years and the main reason for rejecting people pictures was that the photographers didn't seem to get the idea on posing people. Awkward and distinctly nervous poses were really common. Professional Models usually rely on a set range of poses to help photographers - but what about when you work with an amateur model ?
A Posing Guide is definitely a great help then and will improve your output of saleable images tremendously.
Take a look at this one :
Posing Guide:
Tell me about the Posing Guide
Don't forget that models will be just as nervous about a photo-shot as photographers.
I was once doing a photo-shoot for a tour brochure and a nice lady came to the casting - at the end she confessed she wasn't a model at all but an investigative reprter from a newspaper - the job had sounded too good to be true - I did shortlist her but a friend of mine applied too so she got the job instead.
Actually that's a pretty good way to do your research on ANY subject - what people actually download ! The higher the number the more worthwhile it is to shoot.
That reminds me - I saw that one photographer was selling a lot on Shutterstock (a good company) so I went to HIS website and gave up waiting after 20 minutes - don't let that happen to you ! I'd guess that hundreds of his customers gave up too ! _
Make sure your website is up and running properly .
I edited photographers work for over 40 years and the main reason for rejecting people pictures was that the photographers didn't seem to get the idea on posing people. Awkward and distinctly nervous poses were really common. Professional Models usually rely on a set range of poses to help photographers - but what about when you work with an amateur model ?
A Posing Guide is definitely a great help then and will improve your output of saleable images tremendously.
Take a look at this one :
Posing Guide:
Tell me about the Posing Guide
Don't forget that models will be just as nervous about a photo-shot as photographers.
I was once doing a photo-shoot for a tour brochure and a nice lady came to the casting - at the end she confessed she wasn't a model at all but an investigative reprter from a newspaper - the job had sounded too good to be true - I did shortlist her but a friend of mine applied too so she got the job instead.
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Squidoo is a great place to show off your photography.
Build a Lens with the aid of Squidoo and Flickr,
Then Join a Photography Group and get FREE visitors !
You can then join Squidoo Groups on photography - this will give you a link that the search engines will grab and this in turn will give you more visitors.
Here's one to start with :
If you don't have a squidoo lens then here's a starting point - its easy and VERY satisfying.
Copy this into your browser
http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/stockphotos/9a514f509e9c5cd6011b8baa5692851e
Its free to join !
Build a Lens with the aid of Squidoo and Flickr,
Then Join a Photography Group and get FREE visitors !
You can then join Squidoo Groups on photography - this will give you a link that the search engines will grab and this in turn will give you more visitors.
Here's one to start with :
If you don't have a squidoo lens then here's a starting point - its easy and VERY satisfying.
Copy this into your browser
http://www.squidoo.com/group/create_lens/stockphotos/9a514f509e9c5cd6011b8baa5692851e
Its free to join !
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The BIG STOCK PHOTOGRAPHY SECRET
Keep it SIMPLE
SIMPLE PICTURES ARE WHAT SELLS !
Crop in closely on your subject.
Use selective Focus to blur backgrounds (a telephoto lens does this very well).
Make the picture BIG.
(Customers don't like cropping pictures and indeed some don't even realise you CAN crop a picture)
Keep it Colourful.
Colourful pictures in PRIMARY COLOURS Sell.
Look for vibrant colours - its a colourful world.
Insects are attracted to anything YELLOW
Colour is Natures way of shouting COME HERE.
Buy a Polarising Filter to give picture colours a little Oooomph ! (Polarisers accentuate colours)
Crop in closely on your subject.
Use selective Focus to blur backgrounds (a telephoto lens does this very well).
Make the picture BIG.
(Customers don't like cropping pictures and indeed some don't even realise you CAN crop a picture)
Keep it Colourful.
Colourful pictures in PRIMARY COLOURS Sell.
Look for vibrant colours - its a colourful world.
Insects are attracted to anything YELLOW
Colour is Natures way of shouting COME HERE.
Buy a Polarising Filter to give picture colours a little Oooomph ! (Polarisers accentuate colours)
Subjects that Sell (or are downloaded ..)
Think before you shoot
It's not what you've got but what the customer wants that counts. Customers are looking for photos that will help sell THEIR product or service - that's it.
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Saleable subjects:
1 Statue of Liberty New York
This is the iconic view of America. Make sure the Twin Towers are not in the picture or buyers will realise its an old photo.
2 Eiffel Tower Paris
Not just the standard view from Palais de Chaillot - apart from anything else you will be shooting into the sun ! Try Sunsets but not night shots as the Electricity company owns copyright on the pattern of lights on the Tower - and they sue ! (really ...they DO)
3 Lovely smiling girls face
Must have great complexion and not be over-made-up. Healthy smiling pic with good teeth and clear sparkling eyes are what sells - EYE CONTACT with camera is essential.
4 Family on beach having good time
Should be parents in late 20's or early 30's with 2 or 3 young (2/ 6 yrs) children. Scrutinise facial expressions carefully. Edit out pix with blinking people or wierd facial expressions. Use FILL-IN Flash to avoid harsh shadows and a telephoto lens to blur background.
5 business meeting - variety of situations needed - from 2 people to a group of 20. Look at stock catalogues for ides.Must be modern clothes,haircuts and especially up to date computers,pda''s phones or they won't sell.
6 girl at computer - should be in a variety of facial expressions and can also double as telesales with headpiece phone.
7 Kids in room on computer - modern computer - plainish background but with kids postersetc on wall - one child teaching younger one,playing video games,unidentifiable child from behind on chat room to use as child safety tool.
8 Kids playing video consoles (latest) Children must have excited expressions and actually be playing rather than just sitting there staring at a screeen
9 Kids/Teenagers with MP3/4 Player/ipod or pda - similarly with latest colour phone sending messages and looking happy/sad/excited/glum.
10 family dinner with appetising food - all around table - not just a christmas feast - parents helping children - children playing with fod - situations are important
11 Colourful cars - exotic cars,custom cars,old cars - NOT vintage/veteran car rallies where the cars have show cards or are just in lines - its boring !
12 Palm Fringed beaches - must look PERFECT and have lots of space in sky for text.
13 Backgrounds - plain textures,leaves,seasons,feathers,macro pix of insect eyes, unusual textures of natuere and buildings.
14 How to series of photos for hobbies,car maintenance,cooking etc Must be accompanied by text or easy to read photos that are self explanatory.
16 Mother and Baby with non-distracting background.
Close-ups of baby and mother face to face, attractive clothes on mother essential.No jewellery in shot.
17 Capital Cities of the World - must be ICONIC views - look at local postcards and do similar viewpoints BETTER !
18 Cats and kittens Lines of cute baby animals are what really sells - 5 or more in a row. Play with them till they are ALMOST asleep to get best shots
19 Dogs and puppies - similarly to kittens - a row will be best - pro tip - smear BACON fat on the puppies lips and they'll spend the next few miutes licking it off (and off each other !)
All these have to be SHARP, COLOURFUL,preferably humorous,DUST FREE (look at them in 100% in Photoshop to retouch them) ,well composed,colourful (yes I know I said it before but it's THAT important) and tells a story - that old saying about a picture =10000 words is right - if the picture tells the story ! MAKE the picture tell the story so it doesn't need a caption.
The only other thing thats really needed is to KEYWORD every picture - thats what makes pictures sell.Use every applicable keyword you can think of and include your name in the EXIF information so you get paid.
You can do this in Photoshop or any similar program but its essential.
Send the photos on a cd/dvd with your name and address on the dvd/cd AND enclose a *contact sheet* of all the photos that are on the dvd/CD. That way the editor can view at a glance the content of the cd/dvd and it also looks more professional. Don't forget to put your NAME AND ADDRESS on the CD and the Contact Sheet.
Take a look at my own stock photos at www.digifotostock.com to see more saleable subjects
Reader Feedback
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newbwsipl
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- stunning cameras;
beautiful pictures,
thanks for this lens
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fotos4web
Mar 4, 2010 @ 1:04 pm | delete
- I must admit that very few photographers make ANY money from micrstock agencies.
I sent a few top selling stock pictures to one agency who rejected shots that have earned over $5000 each ! (as stock pictures)
I will not bother again
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BioGuy Jul 19, 2008 @ 9:34 am | delete
- Nice lens - a little bit of everything!
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Janet21
Mar 13, 2008 @ 11:44 pm | delete
- Another great lens! Nice addition to the Everything Photography group. Thanks for joining. :)
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lisadh
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- Great tips. Thanks for the info!
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MICROSTOCK - The DOWNSIDE !
Things to look out for in microstock
A VERY disturbing trend in Microstock photography is a bunch of sharks who join microstock agencies as buyers, pay a subscription and download hundreds of stock photos that they then burn onto a cd/dvd and sell as free stock photos on auctions like Ebay or Yahoo . Both Ebay and Yahoo are trying to stop this and I suspect that the only way to prevent this is to delete the relevant subsections in the Photography sections - which will of course prevent photographers selling their own photos to buyers.
Some Microstock companies are going after these characters but the wheels of the law turn very slowly where copyright is concerned.
Already it's possible to buy any of the royalty-free cds of major companies at for instance almost any Kiosk outside a metro station in Moscow for $1.50 or in almost any street market/computer store in China,Vietnam or Thailand for $1 each (and these are cds that retail for upwards of $200 each !)
I predict that this trend will continue and that similar cds from microstock companies will be sold in similar places and worldwide through various auction companies on the Internet.
As the pictures will be from hundred of different photographers or agencies this will prove very difficult to police.
The only solution that I can see is to cease the subscription model entirely and return to selling pictures for more sensible prices (which will make producing rip-off compilations more dificult.).
What can YOU do about htis - easy - check ebay auctions for compilation cds and look at the contents to see if they are yours ! Then immediately get the auction pulled by Ebay by writing to them and claiming a copyright violation. Ebay are very strict abut such violations.
Some Microstock companies are going after these characters but the wheels of the law turn very slowly where copyright is concerned.
Already it's possible to buy any of the royalty-free cds of major companies at for instance almost any Kiosk outside a metro station in Moscow for $1.50 or in almost any street market/computer store in China,Vietnam or Thailand for $1 each (and these are cds that retail for upwards of $200 each !)
I predict that this trend will continue and that similar cds from microstock companies will be sold in similar places and worldwide through various auction companies on the Internet.
As the pictures will be from hundred of different photographers or agencies this will prove very difficult to police.
The only solution that I can see is to cease the subscription model entirely and return to selling pictures for more sensible prices (which will make producing rip-off compilations more dificult.).
What can YOU do about htis - easy - check ebay auctions for compilation cds and look at the contents to see if they are yours ! Then immediately get the auction pulled by Ebay by writing to them and claiming a copyright violation. Ebay are very strict abut such violations.
Photography CDs on eBay today
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FREE SAMPLE PICTURES ?
Should I put free samples on my website ?
The answer simply is yes.... people look for stock and microstock pictures 24 hours a day worldwide.
The first place they look is for Free pictures (why not save money ?) so tempt them to your site with a few free pictures - but show them BETTER ones for a fee ! Most people will choose the better ones (but you won't have lost a sale on other clients anyway ! - They would just have gone elsewhere.)
The first place they look is for Free pictures (why not save money ?) so tempt them to your site with a few free pictures - but show them BETTER ones for a fee ! Most people will choose the better ones (but you won't have lost a sale on other clients anyway ! - They would just have gone elsewhere.)
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