Are you a passionate photographer? Selling stock photos is a fantastic way to turn your hobby into a profit. Individuals and companies purchase stock photography to save time and money in place of arranging a photo shoot. Writers of blogs, news stories and website owners also need stock imagery to use on their pages. Companies will usually purchase a subscription to a stock agency, where they have the rights to use any stock image on the site for the duration of their subscription.
You can upload your images to websites such as Shutterstock, PayLoadz and Adobe Stock. Selling stock photos is an excellent way to earn a passive income, but it is difficult to turn into a full salary. Stock imagery is a saturated market: there are over 225 million images on Shutterstock alone . Once uploaded, you’ll tend to earn £0.15 – £0.30 per month, per image.
A profitable market to enter is aerial photography. Well-known landmarks and popular tourist destinations such as the Eiffel Tower, London Eye or the Brandenburg Gate tend to achieve the highest sales.