Earn Money for your Photos

Earn Money for your Photos. Are you good at photography? Love to click wherever you go? Why to keep it just as a hobby, you can make great money out of your hobby easily. Find out the ways to make money out of your photos.

There many stock photography companies that pay you every time your photograph is downloaded or used by a buyer. If you enjoy photography, this is a way you earn some additional royalties monthly without much effort. Most of these companies will approve photos if they meet their guidelines .

Make money taking photos – Updated information on how to get paid for your photos

Shutterstock - is one of the largest based stock photo agency. Photographers can submit any number of photos. Photos which meet their submission guidelines are approved within 2 to 3 days.
Photographers are paid 25c every time a photo is downloaded. Buyers pay a monthly subscription fees to download up to 750 images per month. The minimum payout is US$75, but if you close your account before reaching the minimum payout, the amount in your account is forfeited. Payment is sent monthly by check.
You can also make money by referring other photographers to Shutterstock, you get paid 3c every time your referrals photo is downloaded. You are paid 20% of the subscription fees paid by referrals who subscribe to Shutterstock.
To increase earnings, check the weekly or all time list of popular images

Big stock photo – also pays for submitting photos. The rates per photo are higher than Shutterstock, but seem to have stricter submission guidelines.

Istockphoto – accepts medium to high resolution jpg files, flash and vector imagery. Photographer usually earns a royalty of 20% on the photos and upto 40% for exclusive photos. Earnings can be converted into download credits or paid out. Minimum payout is US$100.

Dreamstime – photographers are paid 50-65% from each image sold

123rf

LuckyOliver

Fotolia – get paid a percentage of the photo price depending the photographer rank and whether photos are sold on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis

Canstock

Totallyphotos

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