Selling photographs is often the part of the process that divides photographers down the middle in terms of whether they enjoy it or not. In some ways it is a bit like Bovril! You either love selling photographs, or you hate it, but there is seldom any middle ground.
For professional photographers looking to get money for their photos they will often take one of two approaches.
If they are super established then they will more than likely have an agent who sells their photographs on their behalf. But if they aren’t in that position then they may either actively market their photos and start selling photos online, or else they will turn to the stock photo sites to do the selling photos online part for them.
Either way selling photographs can seem like a challenge, and it is always a good idea to become as informed as possible about the process involved to sell photos.
Here is the best guide I have found to selling photographs >>
If you are looking to sell your own photos online then it is especially important to get the whole picture (pardon the pun) of what you need to do to make the whole thing successful.
It is very easy to take photographs, but taking photographs that people actually want to buy and that will end up making you money is a much harder endeavour, so you need to put as much effort into it as possible.
One nice thing to bear in mind though with selling photographs is that the numbers are very much on your side. There is an enormous latent demand for photographs of all kinds of different things, and often it is very mundane photographs that will sell best of all, because fewer people get around to taking them.
My advice is to check out this guide to selling photographs for profit >>