No.

They are really useless for photos, also have the most bizzare photo inspections.

You�ll make more money on canstock or mostphotos than pond5.

No. It really is more pf a video site.

Photos don't see too often but you set the price and when they sell you can make a decent royalty.  I still upload my images there, but monthly sales might be 3-4 images at most. That is $10-$50 my take.

How much should I charge for a photo?

It depends on how unique they are. Probably $1 for an isolated tomato, but I charge $20-$40 per image for some of my underwater work. I think I even have some priced even higher. P5 has a guide when you upload as to what the range is for images, but that is only a guide.  I'd say the baseline if $5-$10 an image, something like that unless an image is unique.  But do it knowing that sales are slow.  People may claim that their images won't sell unless they practically give them away, but I haven't seen that. I have about 3,300 images there. Some are pretty average and priced accordingly.  I see some low priced ones sell at the same rate as my higher priced ones, so I just don't see a pattern or an educated correlation between price and sales volume.

Think about it how much Alamy charges for an image. Well, I certainly won't upload for 1 dollar. I am already frustrated about the 25 cent I am getting on SS. I priced all of mine at 20 dollars for the biggest size. Just wondering if that's too high. A unique photo I priced 100 dollars. Actually I felt like setting it to 150 just like Alamy does. Shooting takes time and costs money, editing from RAW to JPEG takes time, uploading takes lots of time and customers want to pay 1 dollar? Maybe they should go and take their own photos and then think about it if they don't value them higher.

I don't think it's too high if the images have real commercial value and "stand out".  It's really a balancing act between how places like Alamy price and how the likes of Deposit Photo prices, who their customers are, what type of licensing they promote. Alamy is not micro stock.  I'm not even sure P5 is either.  You have to ask yourself who you are competing against, MS or more RM-type pricing like at Alamy and P5.  SS might charge $10 and pay you 30%, or $2.85.  You can sell the same image in P5 for $20 and get $10.  But your volume on SS may be much higher with that same image. Really, two different beasts.

Yes!

Photos do sell, not often but I still upload because they pay 50% and let me set prices.

Think about it how much Alamy charges for an image.

But remember how few buyers actually pay the stated price. Precious few IME. Also the prices seem to vary a lot between currencies

$23 all through 2016

Not worth the effort

They have suddenly become very strict in reviewing photos. For instance, they turned away shots on the basis of a low quality sensor, too blurry, high noise when in fact the image was taken on a Nikon D750 at 100 iso, some on a tripod with a very expensive 24mm 1.4 Nikor lens.

Tyson, how many photos have you had on Pond5? How much did you charge?

Looking at the artist resources I can see some Photos priced $500 and over in the best selling files of the month.

They don't really look so unique to justify the price, so I was wondering if it's worth to raise the bar very high so that the occasional sale on Pond5 will be worthwhile; probably the target customer for Photos in Pond% is different than other agencies....
 
https://www.pond5.com/artist-resources#1/bestMonthRevenueTab