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How to shoot stock photos with your smartphone
In recent years, the quality of smartphone cameras has improved significantly, and many photographers are now using their smartphones to shoot stock photos. The opportunities have never been better and the hurdles have never been lower to start making a passive income by selling your images as stock photos. In this article, we will review how to best capitalize on your smartphone’s camera to shoot great photos that sell.
Whether you’re a professional photographer or a hobbyist, shooting stock photos with your smartphone can be a great way to capture and sell images on various stock photography platforms. Your phone is the perfect companion to easily get started with earning an extra passive income by selling your holiday images and other photos on stock photo agency sites.
The smartphone is the perfect convenient tool when selling stock photos, as it is a tool you are always carrying in your pocket. As the camera in your phone has improved massively in recent years, it has become a worthy competitor to the low-range cameras. By acknowledging that your smartphone can be a proper tool for your stock photography business, you will never miss an opportunity to capture a photo that sells.
Stock photography agencies that allow smartphone photos
For selling your smartphone images, you need to find the right agency that accepts images captured by a phone. A proper camera will always take better pictures than a phone, thanks to larger sensors and dedicated hardware. A smartphone, however, needs to be slim, making it difficult to fit all the essentials to take the same top quality images, especially as you also need the phone’s other functions as well.
With that in mind, some stock photo agencies, like Alamy or Mostphotos, by default declines photos captured with a smartphone, as they have imposed restrictions on the sensor size. But there are other large agencies which accept smartphone images, as long as the photo itself is of good quality (sharp, without noise, and well composed). These include Shutterstock, iStock/Getty Images, DepositPhotos and Adobe Stock.
Hence, if you want to try out stock photography as a passive income, you can definitely do it with the powerful tool you already…
