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Earning online is getting easier with the number of opportunities that just keeps on popping out from nowhere. From selling goods to services, the opportunities are endless as long as you’re dedicated to that craft. Add a little bit of experience and technical knowledge; you’re more than qualified for extra money online. One of the most popular jobs that you can do online is to be freelance photographer. You can either use a good digital camera or even the camera in your mobile phone to capture those moments. As long as you can upload them through the proper websites, you can earn something. It’s a perfect job for the professional photographer lurking in you.

Here are some of the sites where you can upload your photos and start earning.

1. Scoopt.com – this UK-based website is all about news photography. If you saw something newsworthy, get a picture of it and upload them in their website. Scoopt.com also accepts newsworthy videos. If your photos or videos are printed or published, you instantly earn based on the price set by the buyers. You get 40% as royalty fee from the photos that were sold. Scoopt.com will hold on to your video or photo for at least 12 months before removing them in their database. During those times you can’t sell the photo to other companies.
2. SpyMedia.com – much like the same as with Scoopt.com, this California based Spymedia.com only accepts photos that are newsworthy. The website is still in beta version so you have to be forgiving of their interface for now since some of the links don’t work yet. Users can set their price of the photos although it’s still not clear whether the photos will be stock or royalty photos.
3. iStockPhoto.com – if you’re not a person who hunts the whole city just to get newsworthy photos, iStockPhoto.com could be your preferred website for selling stock photos. Stock photos are royalty free pictures but there’s a one time fee set by the publisher. In the front page, there are already price tags for each stock photo sizes. If you’re uploading non-exclusive pictures, you earn 20% for the price paid. If you’re uploading exclusive photos, you earn 40% of the price paid. You’re subjects doesn’t even have to be something interesting. You just post something that can be used as a presentation.
4. Fotolia.com – the good thing about Fotolia.com is there’s a bigger chance of increasing your rate per photo. Highest percentage of share per photo purchased is 64% if you reach their Diamond Photographer ranking. To be diamond ranked photographer, you should sell at least half a million photos through their website. Sounds impossible but there are actually users of the website that have reached that status and more are coming. I checked one of the users page and the pictures he/she uploaded are office themed photos that you can be use in PowerPoint presentation. Surely you can also do that.

So grab your digital camera and start shooting. If you already have this as a hobby, it’s time to earn something from what you love to do.