Do you have a good phone with camera or DSLR with a good photography skills device doesn’t matter a lot.
This is the best idea to generate passive income once you upload a photo. It has the potential to generate income for years after uploading it.
Why are you using your mobile phone to just watch movies, play video games and entertainment? Why not make money?
You may be taking photos sharing on Facebook and Instagram and you stop with that, let's show you how you can make money using those photos.
Many of them have this doubt, how much can I make from selling photos?
You can make around Rs.4000-6000 every month as a passive income.
How it works
Everyone from big businesses to small companies bloggers, freelancers, graphic designers, digital marketers and advertisers all require stock images and videos.
This is a great demand and never going to end people will be buying photos and be using in their business forever.
These stock websites get photos from the photographers and sell them to the buyers where the photographers are paid a percentage of commission for making a sale.
Photography
When it comes to photography, a camera is not everything in Photography. Understand the concept of your genre or work.
If you trying to learn photography don’t look at luxury camera and lens reviews on YouTube and don’t waste your time
Try to understand the concept behind the photography for example Wedding photography, wildlife Photography and Fashion Photography learn more about the subject
Raw photos
Do you know what a raw photo is? It’s a photo we get without processing by using the camera's full potential , whereas in a normal camera app we process our photo and we get another output photo.
Here are some of the apps you can use to take raw photo
📷 Adobe Lightroom
📷 Halide App
📷 Camera Plus
📷 Snapseed
Where you have full control over the elements in the photo like Exposure, Vignette Etc..,
Selling Marketplaces
Adobe Stock
Many of them are familiar with this website, where in the digital world many of them are looking for stock photos to add in their website, Portfolio and Articles.
Adobe stock acts as a middle man where you upload photos and adobe stocks list your photos for free and when people buy it you make money.
Shutterstock
This is another cool website where you can sell photos and raw video clips and there is also a referral program on this website.
Go to the link here and signup and verify your email address then you are good to go.
Upload your images and you will be given an option on which categories of photos you need to upload.
Fill the details about the photo,keywords,Categories and the resolution size etc..,
After submitting Shutterstock will be reviewing your photo and after completing that you photo will be live on shutter stock and anyone buys it you will be paid you can withdraw it later
I have given a link to my friend's Shutterstock account to check that you will be getting an idea.
Signup for Shutterstock here
Pixcy
This is another cool Indian website that works the same as the above websites and has some unique features in it.
👉 FTP upload
👉 Referral program (Rs.10 paid for every friend you refer)
👉 Faster photo Reviewing process
👉 Get Paid fast
👉 Multiple Submissions
You can sign up Pixcy from here
Etsy
This is a popular website that most of you has known it’s a big platform out there for digital materials and resources.
The main advantage of this platform is that you will get potential buyers who are photo enthusiasts.
Sign up for Etsy here
123RF
This is another website where you can sell your photos as a contributor and receive 60% earnings.
You can upload images,videos,illustrations,raw videos,vector and audios.
This website works similarly like all the websites where you upload a photo and give the required information. They verify your photo and then your photo will be live for sale.
Also check out these similar websites:
👉 SmugMug👉 Can Stock Photo
👉 Bigstock Photo
👉 iStock by Getty Images
👉 PhotoShelter
👉 Alamy
👉 Dreamstime
👉 Snapped4U
👉 Pexels
👉 Instaproofs
👉 MorePhotos
👉 N-Vu
👉 Zenfolio
👉 Shopify
👉 Deposit Photos
👉 Foap
👉 Photerloo
👉 CafePress
👉 EyeEm
👉 Pixabay
👉 Freerangestock
👉 Pond5
👉 500px.com
👉 Smugmug.com
👉 Eyeem.com
👉 Flickr.com
Selling photos on your own website
You can create your own website with WordPress or Shopify and sell your license for your photographs and build your own personal brand.
This is a best way to promote yourself as a experienced photographer and you can sell your vector images, illustrations, raw video footages etc..,
Selling photos without taking photos
This sounds interesting right,Yes you can make money without actually taking photos and this website is completely free to use
The website clicksnap.com where you can paid when you photos are viewed
Where you get 0.70$ per photo view and the minimum payout is $15 by using Paypal
Signup for free paypal account here
How to get photos
Just go to google type for the keyword that you want photos for
Click on the tools in the top bar Tools>Usage Rights> Creative Common License
After setting this option google will show you the non-copyright free images where you can use it for free upload these images in the clicksnap.com
Free Udemy photography Courses
Photography Fundamentals for Beginners
Conclusion:
Coming to the end, try to be an expert in a genre of photography, learn a genre and master it for example Portrait photography, Wildlife Photography and more that how you identify yourself in the public.
I am challenging you to start this today try to at least upload a single image on a websites like Shutterstock and clicksnap
Stay consistent, try out 4 to 5 websites and don't spend too much time on all the websites.
After knowing the best website for you which makes you the most earnings, start focusing on that one website to upload more photos and learn more about that platform.
Try to promote yourself on social media like instagram and other social media platforms.