How To Sell Pictures For Profit

I Just cashed a check for $347.61 today. How did I do it? Read on and I'll explain...

When I first began photography, I was bound and determined to make it my living. It was my passion. I started off doing "work for hire" and portrait sessions, but soon yearned to get a little more out of my talent. I needed to figure out how to sell pictures in another way.

I was backed up with workload, which sounds great, but I had little time and wasn't making enough money. I set out to accomplish a new goal: To spend less time, making more money, in photography.

The task was daunting, and being new(er) to the industry of photography, I was unsure of how to accomplish such a task. I started looking into micro stock sites but after some reading realized that I would need far too many images to make even close to decent money.

That is not to say that stock photography isn't profitable. I signed up with another type of stock photography site that allowed me to charge what I deemed fair for my images. This meant that instead of making a measly $0.80 per photo, I could make as much as $5000.00 per photo!

Granted, the sales were less frequent, but that also meant less management. Exactly what I was looking for!

I still needed to figure out how to sell pictures in other ways though. Stock photography wouldn't be enough. So, I developed a business model based on the same theories as stock photography. Shoot an image once and sell prints for years to come. To learn more about how I make money with photography please visit: