How to Make Money from Your Smartphone Photography

400 million digital citizens made an awful 45+ Billion Photos in Instagram.

226K approved photographers on Snapwire

Who Will Buy My Photos?

It is cheaper for brands and companies to buy photographs from community powered stock photography services like Instagram and Flicker than from professional Photographers. Companies look for photos with creativity and reality.

Companies and Brands often prefer user generated images that are taken from day to day life. For example, Puppies, Babies, Candids of people working on something.

As every smartphone camera sensors crossed the 12megapixels mark, Your camera doesn’t matter any more. Anything with emotion and feel sells. The Resolution of a picture matters a lot. Because the photos which a brand or a company buy, might use them for large size printing where resolution matters to keep the images real estate neat and clear.

Fotolia which is a well-known stock photography biggie has got into the game with Fotolia Instant. Shutterstock might have a strict rule for contributions, but it also gives registered users the Shutterstock Contributor app for discovering what customers want and contributing to the pool. A similar offering comes from Dreamstime.

If you don’t want to sell your shots, sites like Photoshare will gladly accept your smartphone snaps for educational use.

Sell Your Creativity with 3 Best Photography Apps

There are stock photography websites. And then there are specialized photography apps with a community behind them. These apps are a single window solution to taking a photo, automatically getting it authenticated, and then submitting it for a sale.

Snapwi.re

Snapwire does come with a caption "Custom Photos for Marketing". It has a commission worry free photos from 226,000+ of the world's top photographers.

Companies and Brands can create a request and make photographers submit their best shots.

 Photographers follow Requests and Challenges from brands, Companies who need a licensed authentic custom photos. Requests are open to approved photographers of shooter level and above. But challenges are open to all. Brands pay more for Requests than Challenges.


Snapwire is used by over 1500+ brands worldwide.
Companies like Hertz (Car Rental Service), Huff Post and Deutsch use Snapwire

Snapwire pays 70% on a photo sold on Request and 50% on photos sold on Challenges/Market place.