Astrophotography as Stock photography
I am quite sure that you have already heard about stock photography. If you didn’t let’s Google it or read this article on Wikipedia. In short: the main idea is to sell the images that has commercial value for low price. The Stock sites has a lot of photographers who upload their photos and the buyers (designer, web-designers, magazines, design studios etc.) who buy these images and pay a little amount of money comparing to hiring the professional photographer.
More than one year ago I have registered at one of the leading Stock engine – Shutterstock. I haven’t known this type of photography and I haven’t expecting very much. I just wanted to try the feeling of selling the photos on-line. And that’s where it started.
At the very beginning you have to upload 10 pictures and at least 7 needs to be approved to became a member. I have uploaded some my the best astrophotos and next day in the morning there was a success: 3.25$. I forgot to mention that they pays you 0.25$ per download, no matter how large the image is. There are also another Enchanced licenses and you are paid much more for them – up to 30$ per download, but they are rare.
Later on I have uploaded also a lot of other images, non-astro. But very soon I have figured out that they are not selling as good as the astrophotography pictures do. I think that the reason is that there is not a lot of astrophotographers who sells their pictures on stock sites and consequently there is a lack of these images on stock sites.
Would you like to join? Here are two mayor stock photography sites where I am registered. I would be delighted if you register trough my referral:
And here is the image which sells the best. 345 so far and counting …
Pleiades @ Primoz Cigler
Thank you for reading! I hope that this was interesting reading …
Recent Comments