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A place to politely discuss the tools, technique and culture of photography.

This is not a good place to simply share cool photos/videos or promote your own work and projects, but rather a place to discuss photography as an art and post things that would be of interest to other photographers.

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Do you sell your pictures? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by nukenate1@alien.top to c/photography@viewfinder.pro

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To those of you who sell your pictures online, what websites do you use and how do you decide how much a picture is worth?

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[–] Over-Tonight-9929@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

To be honest, for each photographer out here stating they sell some photos/prints, there's probably 50 others not selling anything at all (so to speak).

Selling photos/prints to randoms is really hard these days. Unless you have a big following that would buy stuff from you, or are very good at online marketing, you need to be lucky to sell something. The stock photography market is mostly dead and extremely saturated. There's so much available, tens of millions... Selling prints isn't what it used to be either. Most I know spend a lot of time culling, editing and putting up photos and gain nothing at all. Some have even turned to create prints with AI because that is slightly more popular than just regular photos.

When people ask me if they can sell photos I always tell them no, and to better focus on commissioned work. It's easier to make money that way.