Flickr Meets Istockphoto - Make Money Selling Stock Photos

Say goodbye to the old photography stock houses and say hello to
Snapixel.com. Photographers and enthusiasts can get paid a fair price
for what they already love to do and stock users have a fresh new
resource to fulfill their creative needs.


Created by three photographers who were fed up with the current photo
stock offerings, Snapixel offers photographers more than the
traditional stock photography house. How much more? Well to start
with, compared to the 20% photographers get from the sale of their
photos from most other stock houses, Snapixel pays 60% to the
photographer. That's a huge difference.


Snapixel also offers Openstock™. Photographers of all levels, from the
photo enthusiasts to seasoned professionals, can submit their work
into the Snapixel marketplace without existing stock photo
constraints. This is great for people wanting to sell stock, but who
may have not had the opportunity to sell through big stock house like
Getty and Corbis or other microstock sites, such as istockphoto.


Take Chief Operations Officer and co-founder, Ivan Wong shot some
photos of a mountain biking event to post online for other mountain
bikers to enjoy and never intended to sell the photos. Then a
marketing agency (after searching other stock houses and not finding
what they were looking for) contacted Ivan directly after seeing some
of his mountain bike photos online. They asked Ivan for a specific
shot of a mountain bike rider. So, Ivan searched his personal library
of photos and submitted a set of photos for them to review. After
several rounds of negotiating a price, he was offered a fair price of
$300 for the rights to the image to be used for an advertising
campaign in a national mountain bike magazine.


Ivan made $300 on a photo he never even thought about selling but the
negotiation process was tedious and time consuming and the marketing
agency had to comb the Internet looking for other resources for their
creative assets. Hence Snapixel's custom photo request was born.


If that special image you are looking for can't be found in Snapixel's
stock library then it can be requested. Say you have a project that
needs to comply with certain specifications mandated from a client or
project like Ivan's mountain biker. Through a custom photo request,
Snapixel will broadcast those specs to a growing pool of
photographers, who may have an existing photo in their catalog or
might be available to do a custom photo shoot to fulfill the request.
Snapixel handles all the price negotiations.


Snapixel is also an online community where photographers can view,
critique and discuss what they are doing; they can create social
groups based on interests and get advise and feedback from their
peers. They also have created helpful tools for members to upload,
manage and store photos. For instance a photographer can upload their
photographs and build an online portfolio, which can then be promoted
through the site.

So if you're a creative professional looking for a unique stock photo,
a photographer looking for a better price or someone who takes photos
for fun and may want to post their photos for sale take a look at what
Snapixel has to offer.



Snapixel is a Flickr alternative with fast uploading, secure storage and batch organizing tools. Have photos to sell? Snapixel has a unique stock photo marketplace where photographers can make money selling photos. It's free and easy to join. Get started today!