Say goodbye to the old photography stock houses and say hello to Snapixel.com. Photographers and enthusiasts can get paid a fair price for what they already love to do and stock users have a fresh new resource to fulfill their creative needs.
Created by three photographers who were fed up with the current photo stock offerings, Snapixel offers photographers more than the traditional stock photography house. How much more? Compared to the 20% photographers get from the sale of their photos from most other stock houses, Snapixel pays 60% to the photographer.
Snapixel also offers Openstock. Photographers of all levels, from the photo enthusiasts to seasoned professionals, can submit their work into the Snapixel marketplace without existing stock photo constraints. This is great for people wanting to sell stock, but who may have not had the opportunity to sell through big stock house like Getty and Corbis or other microstock sites, such as iStockphoto.
If that special image you are looking for can’t be found in Snapixel’s stock library then it can be requested. Say you have a project that needs to comply with certain specifications mandated from a client or project like Ivan’s mountain biker. Through a custom photo request, Snapixel will broadcast those specs to a growing pool of photographers, whomay have an existing photo in their catalog or might be available to do a custom photo shoot to fulfill the request. Snapixel handles all the price negotiations.
Snapixel is also an online community where photographers can view, critique and discuss what they are doing; they can create social groups based on interests and get advise and feedback from their peers. They also have created helpful tools for members to upload, manage and store photos. For instance a photographer can upload their photographs and build an online portfolio, which can then be promoted through the site.
So if you’re a creative professional looking for a unique stock photo, a photographer looking for a better price or someone who takes photos for fun and may want to post their photos for sale take a look at what Snapixel has to offer.
This article was last modified on January 5, 2023
This article was first published on June 22, 2009
Commenting is easier and faster when you're logged in!
