Would you like to make some extra money by shooting amateur photography? Why not? It's easy and could be a lot of fun too!
If you own a digital camera, a computer and have Internet access, you're fully equipped to get started in a new business venture providing stock photos to websites who compile them for use by others. You don't have to be a professional photographer either. These websites are looking for every-day photographs that you might even have currently on your camera or computer hard drive right now.
Some of the more popular images on one of the stock photo sites include subjects like a pile or rocks, a computer keyboard, a child on a bike and even a close-up of a lawn! As the saying goes, there's no accounting for taste and that seems to be even truer these days as to what the market is seeking.
The market, by the way, would be webmasters, ad agencies, graphic designers, magazines and many others. They go to the stock photo sites all the time seeking images for their projects. Once they find what they're looking for they simply pay for the privilege of downloading the photo of their choice. In turn, the operators of the website pay a commission per download to the owner of the photograph, in this case, you for shooting amateur photography!
How much do they pay? It depends on the size of the photo you upload. From "Xsmall" at $.30 per download to over $8.00 for the size referred to as "XXXlarge". Doesn't sound like much, you say? Consider the fact that many photos are very popular and get downloaded hundreds and thousands of times per year. You don't have to have a math degree to figure it out. Shooting amateur photography can be very rewarding.
Like most any opportunity, there are hurdles to overcome upfront. The biggest one with this program is getting approved in the first place. Most websites require you to submit a sampling of your work first for critical review by a panel of experts before you can make photos available to the public for possible download. A good tip to assure your acceptance is to become very familiar with the site's rules and regulations. In addition, you need to know what they are looking for and especially what they are NOT looking for. Pet photos for example have swamped most stock photo sites and they definitely don't want pictures of your Mr. Wiggles (no offense). Taking heed of these two things can go a long way toward your acceptance to the site.
If you like photography, this could be a dream job of sorts. But even if you don't like photography, the possible cash flow off something like this is "set and forget". Once you've uploaded your photos they are there forever with the chance of being downloaded every day from around the world. Why would you not want to take a shot, so to speak? Shooting amateur photography can be both fun and rewarding at the same time.
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