March has been a great month – increased from an average of $120 per month to $240 this month! Sales were up across the board, although two $20 sales as CanStockPhoto really made the difference. This is a site that is easy to upload to, and, although not a regular earner, certainly helped this month. Give stock photography a try – it is great fun.
I started to upload to the various stock photography sites in early 2008. The sites are described below with a summary of how much I earned from each one in 2008. Shutterstock Commissions for photographers start at 25 cents for each picture downloaded and after 500 dollars in earnings this bumps up to 33 cents each. This may not seem like much, but because of the monthly subscription style a much larger number of pictures are downloaded each day –...
I’ve been involved in stock photography from about a year now, and have recently seen the first two examples of my work in print – the first on a vacation in Kauai, where I picked up a local guide book and saw one of my photos of Waimea Canyon on the main page of the guide book. Then, on a recent flight on United, I opened the Hemispheres Magazine on the main index page, I saw a photo I took...
Making money from your digital photographs as stock photos
