How much should I sell my mobile photography photos for?

So I've recently got into iPhone photography and I've got a couple photos that I have taken. I want to know how much can I sell my mobile photos for? What's the price range that I can play with?

Look around and see how much other people are selling their mobile pics for.

But since there are a billion people out there putting their mobile pics on social media for free what makes you think anyone will want to buy them, unless they are unique and particularly newsworthy.

Your photos are not good enough to sell

The time from when you take the photo using your mobile, showing the subject the shot and convincing them to pay $$$ for an image they will be using on their FaceBook page, you may end up becoming frustrated with the whole process when you consider how many people will actually pay for their photo.

We did an experiment one weekend.

We uses a simple P&S camera with Wi-Fi and a Canon SELPHY dye-sub printer. It was easier to sell a 4x6 print for $5 to the subjects on site than collecting $5 and sending them a print to their own mobile.

Each print (not counting the initial cost of the printer), costs about $0.30, so selling them for $5 can soon pay off the initial cost of the printer, printing material, battery and carrying case. If you are just starting out, you need to include the cost of your mobile or P&S camera. When you calculate your "cost of doing business"

$2 probably

Why would anyone WANT to buy a photo they can easily take themselves with their own iPhone or Android phone?

From nothing to 1 cent… Maybe less!

Look around you and notice how many people have cell 'phone cameras, and you'll have an idea of how your competitors stack up; now, imagine trying to persuade someone to buy from you, as opposed to getting it free from a friend or relative… Or they can do it themselves. WHAT, exactly, do you have to offer others that they can't find elsewhere for free or, certainly, far cheaper than you offer? Personally, I've never bought a photo from anyone… Because I can do it myself, probably better, too.

Sorry if my response isn't what you want to hear but, at least, I'm being honest and not trying to mislead you.

On a whim, call up a newspaper or maybe two, and ask what the pay rates are for newsworthy photos; do the same for a couple of TV news stations. I'll tell you ahead of time, you will NOT get paid what they were paying photographers that made a living selling their images to them. But… Good luck, anyway.

Do a web search on the subject of your very best photo. You will get millions of hits. Where does your photo stand in quality? That should give you an idea of the odds that somebody would want to buy it.

The surefire way to sell a photo is if you happen to be the only one with any kind of camera in the midst of a newsworthy event of great global import, such as a major disaster. You could sell that to news agencies.

It's not possible to say really without seeing your work. However, it's quite easy to see that based on your question, and the fact you're just now using a phone with an $8 camera module within it to take photos, that your images aren't anywhere good enough to sell to anyone for any price.

Most people who just get started with the photography have this fallacy that they can just pick up a camera and start making great photos, when in fact, it often takes years of intensive training and practice to be a great photographer. Next they fall for the idea that just because they got a bunch of likes on flickr, that they can make money by selling prints. All of which is nowhere near the likely brutal truth that their photos are mediocre snap shots at best.

Most photographers don't make money by selling prints, but by selling their skills to clients who need photographs. It's from those jobs that they produce sellable artistic photos that can be sold as prints, but over all print sales account for just a fraction of their total annual income. It's certainly no where near what they need to survive.

What has traditionally been done is to submit work to stock agencies who then pay you a few pennies or as much as a few dollars each time they sell your print to someone who needs it for an ad, or a corporate report, or the like.

Repost your question with a link to your portfolio so that we can properly judge your work.

Nothing.

A B S O L U T E L Y NOTHING.

Sorry, but that is the honest truth.