In the first installment of this series, I described my workflow for selecting and categorizing images for commercial and/or editorial licensing. Here we’ll examine what kinds of licensing options you might consider offering, and what specific permissions you are granting with each.

Even when I’m not being hired to take photos, I often bring a camera to events that I’m attending, and event organizers sometimes approach me afterwards to ask if I’d be willing to share them. I usually accede to that request. However, I do set some healthy boundaries.

I used to upload stock photography to Unsplash. Some of my images got millions of views and over a hundred thousand downloads. I deleted my account.

One of the ways a photographer can earn passive income from their work is to offer images for licensing. However, there is something that every photographer should do before considering licensing any of their images.