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<blockquote data-quote="Fork" data-source="post: 93051" data-attributes="member: 10937">I considered selling stock photography until I read a blog about it.&nbsp; The blog was by a guy who actually did make a living out of stock photography (I can't find the blog anymore though).&nbsp; The main thing that turned me off was that he was saying you have to very forward thinking and predict future demand for photographs.&nbsp; There's no point in taking a picture of Big Ben, for example and putting it on a stock site because there are millions of them already there.He said you need to think about what people will need photographs of 2 to 3 years down the line (technology, up and coming holiday destinations, architecture, business/lifestyle shots and the like).&nbsp; The he says he usually starts making a profit from a photo about 3-5 years after submitting the photo.Presumably he built up a reputation for stock photography through years of work which is why he sells more than the average human on these sites.It all sounds too much like hard work to me for not much return.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fork, post: 93051, member: 10937"] I considered selling stock photography until I read a blog about it. The blog was by a guy who actually did make a living out of stock photography (I can't find the blog anymore though). The main thing that turned me off was that he was saying you have to very forward thinking and predict future demand for photographs. There's no point in taking a picture of Big Ben, for example and putting it on a stock site because there are millions of them already there. He said you need to think about what people will need photographs of 2 to 3 years down the line (technology, up and coming holiday destinations, architecture, business/lifestyle shots and the like). The he says he usually starts making a profit from a photo about 3-5 years after submitting the photo. Presumably he built up a reputation for stock photography through years of work which is why he sells more than the average human on these sites. It all sounds too much like hard work to me for not much return. [/QUOTE]

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