Where and How to Sell Your Photos (Part 1)

1.    BigStockPhoto.com – This website is home to millions of images and signing up is quite easy. It is free to sign up as a BigStockPhoto.com contributor.  You will need to go through a Contributor Tutorial before you start uploading your pictures.  After you upload your photo a trained team will review the photos.  Depending on what you take a picture of, there may be releases that need to be filled out in conjunction with the picture.  If the images are usable they will be uploaded to the site, and you get to keep the copyrights.  For certain purchases you receive 30% of the purchase price.  If customers buy your image on credit you receive $.50 for every credit used and this money can be withdrawn after it reaches $30.
2.    Alamy.com – This is one of the largest stock photos sites out there for paid photo contributions. You can turn your photos into a fairly lucrative business if you understand how the process works on Alamy.  The company offers one of the best payouts in the industry with a 60% royalty per photograph.  There are about 25 million images on Alamy so clients do have a lot of images to choose from.  Like most sites, you retain the copyright on the photographs and the right to do any editorial work.  The Alamy network allows you to get your photographs in the hands of overseas distributors that are much harder to reach as an independent photographer.
3.    CreStock.com – This site is designed more to give photographers the tools to give their creativity full rein.  It is free to open up a CreStock account.  The site offers a nice portfolio system for organizing your
images on the website.  As with most stock photography websites, there is an upload agreement that you must submit to before you start uploading your images.  CreStock pays 20-30% royalty per image, which is on the lower end for stock photography sites, but the creative tools that you get to access are top notch.

This is part one of the article, "Photography Sites That Pay For Your Photos", taken from the
 Money Making Mommy home page.  Part two immediately follows.  Enjoy!