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A quick answer to you question is yes.However there are many variables that can affect earnings potential.You can have hundreds of images online and not make a lot of money. If you shoot popular subjects like flowers, sunsets, landscapes then you are competing with hundreds of thousands if not millions of images in those categories. So your chances of getting a sale are slim.What you have to do is research, look up top selling images and trends to see where the market is going. Look at current advertising, what images are they using? If you want to make money in stock then you have to put a lot of thought and time into it.Images with people usually sell more but make sure that you have signed model releases from everyone in the image otherwise they will be rejected.Another trend is authenticity, more moving, flowing images that are simplistic in nature and not so much posed and perfect.So to make money in stock photography, you have to do research, look at trends, come up with ideas and execute them, be technically flawless, master of keywords, submit images weekly - get the picture? (no pun intended) You have to DO THE WORK to make money.Good Luck!

Are you wanting to sell your images as stock? If yes (and you want the most money) then I would suggest selling as rights managed stock. You will command a much higher price but fewer sales.As an alternative, you could sell as royalty free stock which will give you a lot of sales but very little moneyExample: ( i mean hypothetical)1 rights managed sale = $300100 royalty free sales ($1 ea) = $300A lot really depends on your images, are they suitable for stock? Or are they fine art?Stock also requires model releases for each person in the image and property releases for properties that appear in the image.Here are some stock sites:AlamyiStockphotoAdobestockDreamstimeShutterstockAlternativesFine Art AmericaPhotoshelterEtsySmugmug Pro500px PrimeYou have to do your research, look at pros and cons, read reviews, see if you have to pay comissions, etc.Good Luck!

There are stock photographers who own the copyrights to over 500,ooo images, have on-line sites, agencies, etc. and no longer make a living from their specialties. Posting your images with no idea as to rights, royalties, tracking down unauthorized usage or over-usage.For example, you sell the right for a one time magazine placement, 1/4 page, North American; you then find it being used on billboards, t.v, the side of a blimp, and a porn site. You then find that you posted on some site, signed some document, or didn’t, but let’s assume you did, and signed world wide copyrights away for all usages.But, you protected the buyer from all legal claims. They don’t like the porn site ads.The ‘models’ in the pictures you shot now sue you for $2,500,000 because your witnessed model releases were for editorial use only (you don’t have a release for the nice ‘native couple and kid’ in Afghanistan? You don’t think they have wi-fi there? The curio shop in Paris? Do you have a signed property release from the shop renter, owner, or condo board?Most stock sales these days specialize on specific, hard to find in a minute imagery. Such as military - headstones in national cemeteries, unit pictures, etc. Or, before and after of specific areas.Unless you have truly iconic images - think flag being raised on Iwo Jima, 9/11 WTC flag raising - lots of other images of that day don’t generate reliable income because their are substitutes to be had for just a few dollars less, and their is always a race to the bottom in every area, every event, stock photography and micro stock photography is all a race to the bottom.The great agencies of the 20th century, which took a percentage, then raised it to account for the cost of scanning and digitizing slide film, just kept buying smaller agencies up, lowering photographers rates to near nothing, sold images and didn’t make reports or pay photographers their cut.You would need to sit down and read a great deal on the business side of photography before exposing yourself to the risk of putting yourself into business with these sharks.Royalty, Royalty Free, Microstock, All Rights, are all terms you would need to know just to learn the language of selling photos. For example, your question asked about selling on the specific site 500px. Read every word of every document about selling images there. Do you understand it all? Do you understand any part about any liability you might incur? Want to be sued by the Royal Family of Burma and see if your home owner’s insurance covers business ventures like this?The sad truth is, in 2016, NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR PICTURES UNLESS THEY CAN SUE YOU FOR SOMETHING.