Sell Your Pics!

Sun Jul 30, 2006, 1:28 AM

Submit Photos to Shutterstock and make $$$!

Hey,
Sorry I haven't been submitting pictures. A few weeks ago I quit my job to do what I want... which is take photos, not run a photo studio. Right after my last day I was taking pics at a birthday party and my shutter broke. So now I am broke, can't do a damned thing about it. Yes, I renewed my warranty this year, so it will be fixed for free.
So in the meantime I am going thru all my pics and deciding what to do with them. I also have been working on my biz site, [link] and playing with Photoshop Elements that I found in my room, still in the package. I had taken some RAW pictures to save for a rainy day so I've been playing with those, too.
I have also photographed a few weddings (as an assistant) to see if I really want to do that or now... because I always thought I wouldn't. Turns out taking wedding pictures rocks and I am good at it! So starting in October I'll be doing budget weddings to build my equiptment.
So anyway... I found this really cool (legitimate) site where you can sell your photos. Please check it out, it seems like a good way to make some extra cash.

Submit Photos to Shutterstock and make $$$!
There's another cool site I found called Happy News where you can sell articles and pictures of news stories, as long as they are happy. [link]

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`babyducks Feb 10, 2006, 3:49:22 AM

Awesome shots and picks

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_{~Your heart understands what your head cannot yet conceive; trust your heart~

My belongs to =Ex-po-zure}

~DeviantWitch Feb 12, 2006, 11:32:34 AM

i think so, too. that guy's got mad skillz

*metagore Feb 20, 2006, 7:29:37 PM

Cool

Jetta's rule

My brother had an '02 TDI and has already put over 150K on it... and it keeps on running

He says he wants to be in a VW commercial when it rolls over to 500K (or maybe it was 300K)

Nice work on the website, Gallery is a great engine. I still need to finish kaylamaries, and then I'm starting work on a photo site of my own, but more towards selling prints. I'm still going to set it up so it can be used for portrait work... just incase

I'll race you on the last one

... regardless of who gets there first, we both win

... competition is a great driving force.

~DeviantWitch Feb 20, 2006, 8:15:17 PM

gallery 2 does have a shopping cart module which is compatible with a plugin you can get off their site to sell prints. you can mark them up to whatever you want and the company that does it uses silver processing. i already tried it and it seems to work, i just can't figure out how to get the samples to "not" be for sale.

*metagore Feb 20, 2006, 8:24:57 PM

Cool, I may have to check it out then. I was planning on building mine from the ground up, but if Gallery has what I need then I'm running with it.

One function that I will need is a 'Client Login'. So if I do decide to do portraits, I can upload them to the site and forward the client a login where they can just go to the site and pick their shots and packages. I already have some gallery base code on kaylamaries that does this and had planned on using that do build mine... but we'll see

I'd love to have something that has all the code already written

~DeviantWitch Feb 20, 2006, 8:29:46 PM

it's in there. i have tested that as well. in fact, i have private albums in there already. if you happen to figure out how to turn off the shopping cart feature in some albums, please let me know. that's all i need as far as functionality.