Freelance Digital Photography - Selling To Stock Photography Sites
How can you make a living from your freelance digital photography? One option that people have been turning to with successful outcome is stock photography sites like Fotolia.com. Say you love to take digital pictures with your camera but never considered making money from it. Well this isn't getting rich quick but you can make up to 500.00 dollars a month per stock photography site.
Doesn't matter what age you are and you don't have to quit your job to make time for taking pictures. This is just a way to upload your freelance photography onto a site that will sell the pictures for you. Every time someone purchases a picture you will get paid either a set rate or how ever much they purchased the picture for. Although the concept is simple enough there is things you need to learn in order to be successful.
Taking good pictures is obviously an aspect of getting good sales. You don't have to be a professional photographer since buyers of stock photography need pictures of almost anything. Your photos have to be very much in focus and be void of any noise. The colors have to be neat, completely balanced and not too dull. You cannot have any marks, signatures or logos on the pictures to confine there ownership. Your pictures should not look like you were a tourist and have a more creative touch.
To help your photos sell you need to photograph things that are original, and you really have to think like a buyer. The people who are buying stock photography are marketers, advertisers, website makers, magazines, and graphic designers (to name a few). You need to attract your buyers with keywords or proper picture categorizing. If you learn to pick the popular, low competitive keywords you will send a good amount buyers to purchase your freelance digital photos.
Here are the things you need (or) need to do to get started
* Buy a Digital Camera
* Have an Internet Connection
* Learn about proper keywords, conversion, uploading, stock photography companies (read an Ebook)
* Take hundreds of digital photos
* Sign up with Stock photo companies
* Upload you pictures, make conversions and make a profit
* Repeat
For more information and specifics on selling photos to stock photography sites go to my site Freelance Digital Photography
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