Charging for anything requires extra work. If the OP is an employee doing another sort of work, the extra work involved in charging could be enough to complete overwhelm any benefit from charging, unless the OP somehow won the lottery and made huge bucks (unlikely in the extreme).
Even if the OP is already working as an independent business owner, using their existing "charge people" infrastructure and tools for a non-core hobby could be somewhere be difficult and infeasible.
There are things that we do because we enjoy them, not because we have any vanity hope of ever making money from them. Getting our work in front of others allows for broader criticism, which can make us better; for attribution, which can lift our spirits (I did that); and for recognition, which can, sometimes, for some, make us money.
Let's stop this "never do anything for free" fetishism, shall we? As important as money is, it ain't everything.
Agreed, I have full time job, side projects. And photography is more like a hobby.
I got more positive from this topic on HN, than I could ever get from selling these photos.
Like the OP wrote, photography is a hobby.
Charging for anything requires extra work. If the OP is an employee doing another sort of work, the extra work involved in charging could be enough to complete overwhelm any benefit from charging, unless the OP somehow won the lottery and made huge bucks (unlikely in the extreme).
Even if the OP is already working as an independent business owner, using their existing "charge people" infrastructure and tools for a non-core hobby could be somewhere be difficult and infeasible.
There are things that we do because we enjoy them, not because we have any vanity hope of ever making money from them. Getting our work in front of others allows for broader criticism, which can make us better; for attribution, which can lift our spirits (I did that); and for recognition, which can, sometimes, for some, make us money.
Let's stop this "never do anything for free" fetishism, shall we? As important as money is, it ain't everything.