Ever sold your photos?

Elessar

Has anyone here actually made money from their photographs? I mean anything from selling to family/friends/businesses to stock sites?

And if you're a professional, how difficult is it to make money from photography here in Ireland?

Personally I've made about $4 so far on shutterstock with 10 or so photos but it is more of an experiment for me to see if it actually works. It's nice to know that someone liked your photo enough to pay for it.

So, anyone else?

JackKelly

Nope, still in the "gettin to know my camera" stage with my 300d. Takes a good while to get everything together. Haven't had a decent picture yet. Hopefully its not just me. Someday i'd love to sell a photo or two.

Rhyme

Im working through the intracacies that is my Pentax... perhaps in the future, *dreams*

Granted one of my shots adorns the wall of a French house...

Karoma

I got money for photographs..but that was more a blackmail sort of situation. ahem.
I do it purely for pleasure, and am only starting out. It appears (The active members at least)our user base are amateurs (albeit, some serious) primarily. Sorry, cannot be of much more help.

alb

Nope, launched my photography site in the past few months (see signature) and am hoping to eventually sell a few prints from tha, but none as of yet. A few ppl have enquired abotu buying but none followed through.

FinoBlad

alb wrote:

Nope, launched my photography site in the past few months (see signature)

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Karoma

FinoBlad wrote:

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working for me.
nice,clean layout BTW (Although the link exchange is a little hefty)

alb

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Karoma wrote:

working for me.
nice,clean layout BTW (Although the link exchange is a little hefty)

cheers, link exchange will most likely be trimmed, some arn't providing any referrels at all.

DotOrg

i've made money from people paying me to take their photos
also from magazines paying me to use my photos
and i've also sold prints of some of my shots

if you're a pro photographer it's very hard to make money as there's so many good people who do it for a hobby who undermine the professionalism aspects of the job making it harder and harder to get people willing to pay and respect/obey copyright laws

peckerhead

Nice photos, alb. Did you use a polariser on some of those latest scenes (Dunguaire castle B/W, Spanish Point, etc), or just fiddle with saturation/gamma levels at the editing stage...?

alb

peckerhead wrote:

Nice photos, alb. Did you use a polariser on some of those latest scenes (Dunguaire castle B/W, Spanish Point, etc), or just fiddle with saturation/gamma levels at the editing stage...?

Thanks, I've no filters that fit my nikon equipment yet, so I had to do what I could in photoshop.

peckerhead

Note to self: must learn a bit of Photoshop. I bought a polariser on eBay for my Finepix S5000, but I invariably don't have it with me when I need/want it!

"Eee, there were none of that, in my day..."

alb

peckerhead wrote:

Note to self: must learn a bit of Photoshop. I bought a polariser on eBay for my Finepix S5000, but I invariably don't have it with me when I need/want it!

"Eee, there were none of that, in my day..."

I used to leave my polariser on my old camera all the time and probably will again when I get a new one.

peckerhead

Well, I've a skylight 1A permanently attached, but I found myself shooting some nice sky/water scenery down in Ballinskellig recently, and wished I'd something a bit more 'punchy' - it was late afternoon, lots of hazy, setting-sun stuff in the atmosphere...

To come back to the original question — I've often wondered what the chances would be of flogging prints on eBay, where you'd probably have a less discerning punter? I could see a lot of American buyers going for the "Genuine Oirish" castles/landscapes/John Hinde kinda stuff, in signed limited editions from a "Genuine Oirish" up-and-coming artist, etc. They certainly seem to snap up the old Guinness memorabilia/shillelaghs/"Limerick" lace, etc.!

Years ago, I put myself through college doing family/kids' portraits/1st Holy Communions/the odd wedding, so I'd be well used to "prostituting" my art...

[Edit: Of course, if you're handy with Photoshop you could always leave the camera out of it altogether and do like this guy...]

acquiescefc

Ive sold a few gig photos(double figures...just) through my photobox account but dont think its too good as people can only see small versions of the pics online which is annoying.

More a hobby than a business as I dont have that much time, or knowledge.

BrookieD

I sell a few pictures each month from my site below. i was asked to do 3 jobs in late october but i will be away in Turkey taking more portfolio shots. My best job was for Bushido fighting rings, i got triple figures for that.

I was working for Irish Broadband for a while and had no time for photography but now i have left them and will be back in the field again

cianclarke

I've sold publication rights to a producer for a significant ammount. I've been published five times to date by local newspapers, twice front page and never been paid for that. I'm also selling mounted prints in a local shop at €35 each, they're particularly big and well mounted with an information pack - but I'm afraid they're not actually selling.
Still, I'm only seventeen so I'm not doing too bad.

alb

cianclarke wrote:

I've sold publication rights to a producer for a significant ammount. I've been published five times to date by local newspapers, twice front page and never been paid for that. I'm also selling mounted prints in a local shop at €35 each, they're particularly big and well mounted with an information pack - but I'm afraid they're not actually selling.
Still, I'm only seventeen so I'm not doing too bad.

Some really nice photos on there, well done!

cianclarke

alb wrote:

Some really nice photos on there, well done!

Thanks! I was just on your gallery, but was having extreme difficulty accessing some areas using firefox - IE seemed to work a tad better... It could be my internet though, I've had issues tonight.
Some beautiful photos on there, I wish you the best of luck (or at least better than waht I've had ) with your e-commerce venture!

Shrimp

I'd like to sell some of mine Shamelsss Plug but I've never really got any proper offers. Would love to get some exposure though, no pun intended. so if you like them, drop me a line...

Shiny

Sorry to revive an old thread but I came upon this
as I was trying to see did any members sell their
photos online.

I have been up all night trying to get 10 photos
ready for the Alamy Qality Check.

So how many of ye are selling at the moment
and to who???

Just as a matter of interest.:)


...........crawls to bed.