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Scoopshot Pro Connects Photo Buyers with Pros Photogs Around the World

Scoopshot is trying to transform the way companies purchase photos and the way freelance photographers find work. In August, we reported that the startup had launched an app that allows smartphone users to easily sell their photos from their phone. Since then, the company has paid out more than $300,000 to participating photographers, and reports that over 60 of its users have earned more than $1,000 by selling their phone photos (one user has earned more than $23,000)

Now, the service is setting its sights on a different group of photographers: professional freelancers. It has launched Scoopshot Pro, a service that connects photo buyers with photo makers for commissioned projects.

Scoopshot Wants to Turn Mobile Photogs into Citizen Journalists

A couple months ago we shared an app called Foap, which allows people who take pictures with their phone to put the images up for sale for $10 a pop. If Foap is the bane of microstock photographers, then Scoopshot is the bane of photojournalists.

It's an app that helps phone photographers easily sell their images to news organizations. After all, when a local story happens, it's often random passersby that are on the scene first with phones out and camera apps loaded.