Can I make money with my stock photography?

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Is there a way to make money off of all the stock photography I take?


Edit: I originally wrote:
"Is there a way to make money off of all the stock photography I use?"

[ssim]

That's a fairly vague and confusing statement. You use stock photography, ie. you pay to download from stock sites or you have images that you want to supply to stock agencies?

If it is the latter, I would google "stock agency" and you will get lots of resources available to you. Read their minimum requirements and what kind of shots sell.

[scraggles]

That's a fairly vague and confusing statement. You use stock photography, ie. you pay to download from stock sites or you have images that you want to supply to stock agencies?

If it is the latter, I would google "stock agency" and you will get lots of resources available to you. Read their minimum requirements and what kind of shots sell.

The latter is correct. However, I have googled, and what I really want to know is which are reliable. Some of them seem like scams.

[odvdveer]

You have to decide if your want to go with high volume, low prices like dreamstime (http://www.dreamstime.com/resp182919) (though they have just raised their prices and you will not only make 0,25cent sales) or with a site like featurepics (http://www.featurepics.com/Login/Registration.aspx?refid=2993) where you can set your own price and license type (royalty free or rights managed). I have made some sales there but not a lot.

Watch the amount of commission you have to pay (from 70% down to 30%), the amount of money you have to earn before you get payed.

Search this forum for more information.

Olga