Last week we had a lecture about how to earn some money out from your photography by posting them on the internet. There is a company called Alamy which provides you a space for your photographs and tries to sell them. We were told that most of the companies, magazines, newspapers and info websites such as Yahoo! are buying pictures from there. Basically what you need to do is post your image, tag it i.e. if it is a picture of a pie, you tag it as a 'pie' and then if somebody writes an article about the pie and needs a photograph to support it, they simply go to the Alamy's website and add the keyword - 'pie'. Of course, they get millions of results and are able to choose a picture out of the rest. If it is your picture and you are the one out of the million, you get 50% of the whole price of your image and Alamy takes the rest 50% which later on is donated to the research of the cancer.
Sounds good? I guess it does, as long as it is not your main income, because it is more like a lottery. You either loose of you are one of the million who wins. But if you have creative images others do not have, you have more chances to win and sell your work. Other side is that they would like to have more of commercial images which are easier to sell. I am thinking about trying it, even though I would need to shoot in a different way and even to take out my digital camera but apart from that it sounds interesting and you have nothing to loose since they do not have any other hidden fees. Enter their website here:
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