10 Tips for Selling Your Smartphone Photographs
You can make money online with smartphone images by selling them through iOs and Android applications, and online image-selling platforms like Shutterstock.
Here are a few tips to get decent results with selling your smartphone photographs. It will help you get your images accepted by most agencies:
1. Find out what sells
Look at other photographers’ portfolios and determine what people are looking for in smartphone photos.
2. Find a niche that appeals to your customers and yourself
You will have to plan photoshoots, so it better be something you are interested in.
3. Follow trends
It can be lucrative to follow the trends. Think about significant global sports events like the Olympics, and seasonality like Christmas, spring, summer holiday, or Halloween. Try to detect changes in customer interests like building tiny houses or eating organic vegetables.
4. Think quality over quantity
Spend enough time on every single photograph. Get the resolution, focus, sharpness, lighting, and editing right. Less can be more, and it pays to select and add just a few specific high-quality images to your portfolio. Start with multiple shots instead of adding one every few days. A larger number of the best images leads to more sales. Be sure to maintain quality throughout your portfolio.
5. Add different angles and perspectives
Try to shoot different angles of the same subject in the same environment. Customers like to be able to choose from one photo shoot.
6. Edit your images
But don’t overdo it. Subtle changes tend to sell better, especially for casual everyday photos. Try to avoid HDR and other extreme styles. It is, however, essential to create a consistent look throughout your portfolio.
7. Check every image twice before uploading
Your photographs have to be of high technical quality. The best way to check your pictures is by looking at them at 100%. Look for dust particles, chromatic aberration, correct focus on the right part of the image, excessive noise, and sharpness.
8. Tag your images and write appealing descriptions
Add enough relevant (location) tags to your photographs. It will help potential customers to find your portfolio. Think about all the different topics your images cover. Learn from other photographers how to use metadata.
9. Think outside the box
Although everyday life images tend to sell well, create them while thinking outside the box. Your ideas should stand out from the millions of other photos. You might even have a new and unique idea to build a portfolio.
10. Be patient
It might take some time before you will start selling images. You need time to build a portfolio and to find the right customers. It can take weeks, months, or even years to get significant results. Once the community picks up a photo, you can keep selling it for years to come.
