In the old
days, photographers had to negotiate with stock photo agencies and send negatives through the
mail. These days, you can just upload your digital files to online agencies??”and many of them
are friendly to casual photographers who might not be experts at the stock photo sales game.
What Is Stock Photography?
That??™s a good question. Stock photography is the meat and potatoes of many working
photographers??”it??™s simply images of landscapes, buildings, landmarks, people, animals, and
events that can be sold to and used by a wide variety of media outlets. Stock photos are routinely
used in web sites, magazines, newspapers, corporate publications, and more. The same photo can
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be sold over and over again, because the organizations that buy them don??™t get exclusive rights.
So if you have a great photo of a windsurfer, you can theoretically sell it to a sports magazine, an
inspirational poster company, and a web site. And the stock photo agency does all the work.
Online Stock Photo Agencies
Ready to try your hand at the world of photo sales? Why not? After all, all it takes is one or two
sales and you can call yourself a ???professional photographer???! And it doesn??™t take a lot of effort,
either.
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