My New Experiment: Selling Holiday Photos on Shutterstock
Can I Earn Money With That?
Going on vacation to a beautiful place, having fun, taking pictures, then selling them and getting some money? Does it sound like a dream come true? Well, the best way to figure it out is to try. I am not a professional photographer, and while having a vacation in Sweden, I decided to publish the photos I took there on Shutterstock and see if I could get something from it.
Will it work? Let’s get into it!
The first 4 chapters of this article are focused on technical and legal parts and can be interesting for readers who want to start selling photos on their own. The final 5th part is about the results; readers who are not interested in photography details can jump directly into it.
1. Shutterstock
First, a few words about Shutterstock. According to Wikipedia, it is “an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools.” There are also other websites of that kind (iStock, Adobe Stock, etc.). Shutterstock is one of the oldest ones; it was founded in 2003, and I chose it because I had already heard about Shutterstock before.
How does the stock photography work? Practically, every person from every part of the world (Shutterstock is…
