I am an amateur photographer and I want to try my hands on stock photography for selling my images. Which site is best for photographers like me? I meant website!

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www.micromix.webs.com is very helpful

the sunset is best site for photography

Sorry. Not really related. But what's stock photography again? ;__;

Hi, If you are just getting started into stock photography, I would recommend you take a look at Fotolia.com and 123rf.com. However, the better selling agencies are iStockphoto.com, Dreamstime.com and Shutterstock.com, although it's a bit harder to get your images accepted, especially at iStockphoto. Look through their submission guidelines and see what type of images they are looking for. Good luck!

There's the three big ones: http://www.Shutterstock.com, http://www.iStockphoto.com and http://www.Dreamstime.com For ShutterStock and iStock you have to get accepted before you can start to submit real pictures and sell them. Dreamstime there is no such thing and you can just upload pictures that should be good enough as stock and they'll put it up. ShutterStock requires you to send in 10 pictures of different things to get approved. You need 7 out of 10 images approved. For me, it was easy to get in, I even added 'filler' pictures because I had 7 good ones, and 3 bad ones. Nine of them got accepted. I get an average of around 5 downloads a day, this is my most selling stock site and it's easy to get in to. iStock is really hard; they ask for 3 pictures. I've submitted twice now, and each time they've sent me back a message saying my images are too 'similar' (how a valentine's card and a spa leaf are similar is beyond me). I wouldn't try this one, but this is the second biggest stock site out there. DreamsTime doesn't have an acceptance program; so you can just start uploading pictures and wait for them to be accepted or rejected. However, I've uploaded several pictures now for a week, and still have no sales. I think it's a rather slow site, but I guess for you it's good. Try both ShutterStock and Dreamstime at the same time. If you think you're good enough, try iStock.

Hi Mojo, I wrote an article about selling stock photography, check it out, I hope it helps. http://quazen.com/arts/photography/stock-photography-sell-your-images/ If you have any other questions regard this feel free to email me via my profile page. All the best with it! Shortkut