Does anyone sell their photos online?

Just wondering if they make any decent money?

I finally got onto shutterstock some months back and of about 30 images got maybe 12 approved >< Ive since made a whopping $2 :|

Im better off I think doing what I do, making the photos I take free for non-commercial use, and hoping that someone will want to use an image commercially. If I charge £5 for it, Ive already made more moolar than I would on a stock photo site in a year ><

I think to make any money out of Stock sites you have to put a LOT of pics on them, were talking hundreds.

On the plus side theyre something that once theyre up, it costs nothing and you can only get money from them.

I found the hoops you have to jump through pretty annoying though. Im not exactly that great a photographer so it was expected that lots would get rejected. But when photos get accepted that were previously rejected, it makes you wonder whats going on.

peanuts. $0.25 as a base rate though this varies between sites. The larger ones I think have exclusive deals where if you only submit to their site you get a bit more moolar. Its also been noted that such people tend to get more of their photos accepted.

One more reason im bitter about the whole process...

Interesting.

My $2 is now $4.

But what is more interesting is that I submitted a shot of an object I took with the 40D, which I previously did on the 400D yonks back (and was rejected). It wasnt much different at all, Id say roughly the same amount of post processing etc, but its been accepted.

I really do think that their "review" processes tends to be along the lines of the number of photos youve already got on the site, whether youre "exclusive" and finally the exif data, I think if they see youve taken it with a rebel etc theyll scrutinise it more than if you took it with something a little more expensive. I might give istockphoto a go later.

Massive cut. you get ~ 20% of what they make. For it to work you need to be realllllly good as well as have a lot of photos, and a lot of photos that are more unique, as there are millions of photos on these sites already.

Massive cut. you get ~ 20% of what they make. For it to work you need to be realllllly good as well as have a lot of photos, and a lot of photos that are more unique, as there are millions of photos on these sites already.

Having read the thread i was going to say there must be millions of photos, so you need to even out your chances by either uploading 100s or 1000s of images or choosing categories with less images and working on those.