Selling photographs....good idea?

[Darkkon]

I'm just wondering, how effective a strategy is it to sell photographs? I mean, you can visit quite a few "photography" sites that look nice and everything, but how successful are they really? Does anyone have a site such as this that sells pictures, and if so, how successful is it?

[DeadBattery]

Are you trying to sell pictures online (e.g. JPG pictures) or something like 4"x6" pictures?

[withambition]

Like most things, selling images takes time. Some people have been fairly successful selling stock photos at a website such as shutterstock.com; however, I've never personally tried out the service so I can't judge how difficult it would be.

[Jordie92]

I was thinking about doing that formy photography site.

However I havnt fully thought it through yet.

[vinayan]

if your a professional photographer you can win, otherwise you need to invest a big amount of money.

[taekwondokid42]

If you are not a pro photographer, the best thing you can do is go to a website that will sell your photos for you. For all of your pictures, you can have a link that will lead back to a website you built, that will sell all of your photos in one place.

But, I would say that the success rate is pretty low. As long as you would not be depending on the site for money, there is no harm in pursuing such a thing.