Selling Photos

A guide for photographers to selling photographs to magazines and other publications written by an industry insider.

Selling Photos is a guide to selling photos to publications and is written by an industry insider, Rob Sheppard. Sheppard has been on both sides of sales, both selling images to publications as well as buying them as an editor. He has seen how the industry has changed and lays it out straight for any photographer who wants to sell photos. This is information that you can't find elsewhere and it comes from direct experience with photography selling and buying, a perspective most photographers don't have. The book offers proven ways to sell images and spells out things you can do to increase your odds of selling a photo.

Rob Sheppard is the author/photographer of over 30 books, as well as a well-known speaker and workshop leader, and a Fellow with the North American Nature Photography Association. He was the long-time editor of the prestigious Outdoor Photographer magazine and helped start PCPhoto (Digital Photo). Presently he is editor-at-large for Outdoor Photographer. As author/photographer, Sheppard has written hundreds of articles about photography and nature, plus books including the Magic of Digital Landscape Photography, The Magic of Digital Nature Photography, and the National Geographic Field Guide to Digital Photography. His website is at www.robsheppardphoto.com; his blog is at www.natureandphotography.com.