How to sell my photos?

First, before you spend a penny or a single moment of your life trying to figure out where to sell your photos, you must have your work critiqued by a professional. Your mom doesn't count, nor does anyone who knows you on a personal level. The number of thumbs up or likes on social media is worse because it gives one a very false sense of just how good they are.

Let me ask you this: Have you ever won a photo competition? Have you even placed in the top 3 or how about an honorable mention? While this is not the end all be all of ways to determine how good you are, it's certainly something that should give you pause.

Having your work critiqued by someone who doesn't give a damn about your precious feelings and will be brutally honest with is key. Even pros who've been shooting for 20+ years get their work critiqued.

Once you get past that hurdle and you find out that your work is top notch, is there a market for it? Don't waste your time trying to sell work that has already saturated the market. Go to a gallery and talk to the owner there and see what are the popular genres in photography. Then do those types of photos. Why waste time taking shots and then waste even more time trying to promote work that no one wants?

Most people who sell prints, and a lot of them, are not selling to the average Joe. Those like Trey Ratcliff are selling their work to major corporations to be used in marketing and national ad campaigns. The number of prints that they sell to people who'll nail it to their living room wall is very, very low; probably in low single digits.

You should do the kind of work that there's a market for such as portraits of children, weddings, and corporate work. Taking a pretty landscape is cool and all, but you and a billion (actually it's more than just 1 billion) other people are taking billions of landscapes every year. What makes your work so special or even worth a first look? A brutally hones critique will answer that question.

LOL... so... how many of these people who say you should sell them have actually BOUGHT any of your photos? I'm betting not a single one. That should tell you something right there. It does not necessarily mean your photos are good or bad, it is simply the reality that few... very very few.... people actually buy random photos from a stranger now. Purchased photos are typically things such as wedding or event photos or personal portraits, and even that market has shrunk drastically in the last couple of decades.

Yes, there are plenty of websites where you can offer your photos for sale. Do you know who makes the money from that.... the site owners, that's who. It really is pretty much a sucker's game to pay money to a site in an effort to sell your photos. A free site is even worse.

Everyone has some form of camera now, even just a lowly cell phone. The thing is, the vast majority of people only care about photos THEY take or that are "shared" from family and friends on places like Facebook. They have no desire or plans to actually BUY any such photos.

Honestly, I'm telling you the facts. Let those other people say what they want about you "needing to sell your photos', ... until they put their money where their mouth is, it is completely meaningless jibber jabber.

A professional camera doesn't mean professional photos.

But there's plenty of options just Google websites to sell images, there's obviously a lot. Some you pay to sell fbut get good money, some are free but get about 30p an image so your gonna have to look yourself.

Or make up a website (Wix is popular) that offer a free domain.