Istock Photography

There are several sites that want your photos pictures. These sites will pay you a percentage for each photo that is uploaded whenever it is downloaded. Your photos can be downloaded an unlimited number of times.

Many individuals, businesses, organizations, websites and print publications are in constant need of a wide variety of quality photographs to their websites, sales letters, brochures, magazines, videos and newspapers. These bodies regularly turn to pictures of websites to buy the photos they need.

You can submit your digital photos to Web sites like iStock and Shutterstock. You do not need to be a professional photographer. You just need a digital camera (with extra memory cards) and Internet access. Registration for these sites is free. Each time one of your photos is downloaded, you'll be paid a percentage of the cost of photography, which usually comes at twenty-five hundred dollars to several.

Virtually any type of digital photo is acceptable as long as it is of high quality. Your photos must be in JPG / JPEG and for most websites they stock should be 1600 x 1200 pixels or more. Shutterstock new photographers need to submit photographs that are 4.0 million pixels, or megapixels (MP).

You can calculate the number of pixels of a photograph by multiplying the width by height. An image that is 1600x1200 is 1.92 million pixels.

In photographs that show a minor, or a recognizable human face is visible, you must send a joint model with the photo on the site. You must submit original work and make sure you do not have copyright or logos of your images. Do not submit photos that have been increased in size from their original file size. You should read the submission guidelines of each site before you start posting your pictures.

Once you've downloaded an image to a photo site, it remains there as long as you want (even years). Whenever it is that you downloaded to make money. You can upload your photos on several different sites as Web sites allow the presentation of photographs non-exclusive.

For example: Lets say you have accumulated 1,000 high quality photographs for photo sites. You download each image to ten different sites. Thus, each site now has 1000 different images. You have a total of 10,000 images uploaded to various sites. If all your pictures get downloaded twice every thirty days, and your commission is only $ 0.25 cents for each download, you have to make $ 5000 per month!

You can take pictures and download ten a day each to ten different photo sites. In just three months, you have about 900 photographs downloaded 9000 times.

What's really cool about this is that once your photos are downloaded they continue to make money for you without any extra work on your part. If you upload photos permanently the stock of Web sites you can earn even more. There are many people who do it full time and make $ 5,000, even $ 8,000 per month.

Most websites you pay a monthly stock through Paypal, Moneybookers, paper checks or direct deposit.

You can start by taking photos in your area, or travel anywhere and do a very good living by taking photographs stock. The more photos you upload, the more earning potential you have. You can make big money from this "work" from around the world.