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• The secrets of keywording
  by loganhille

  Good keywording is essential to anyone that is attempting to sell anything – especially stock photos – on the internet. Imagine you ar…

  Good keywording is essential to anyone that is attempting to sell anything – especially stock photos – on the internet. Imagine you are a designer who has a client who wants a brochure to advertise their IT Help Desk. So you have all the words but want some background image, or an inserted image to carry the message. You might be looking for a photo of a keyboard, maybe one that someone has manipulated and replaced the SHIFT key with the words “HELP DESK”. You might have an idea you would like a photo of someone working at a Help Desk. Alternatively, you might like something to give your client a competitive edge, like a bunch of bananas with one coloured red. So the keywords you might use should not just describe the image, they should describe a metaphor or a situation. The red banana might be described in keywords as: bizzare, different, variety, change, weird, odd, alert, danger etc. The best keywording assistance comes from a site called CANSTOCKPHOTO Now you will not earn stacks of money from this site, but using their keyword tool is well worth the effort of joining and becoming a contributor. I hope you are enjoying reading my blog.

• Want to be a Getty Images photographer?
  by loganhille

  Lots of us dream to being a Getty Images photographer. Glam assignments, wicked pay rates, and being paid good money and being recogni…

  Lots of us dream to being a Getty Images photographer. Glam assignments, wicked pay rates, and being paid good money and being recognised as a world class photographer. Well, here is the shortcut. Getty Images own ISTOCKPHOTO ‘target=’_blank Istock is their microstock division. Istock say on their website “Our relationship with Getty Images also means that our top exclusive photographers are able to upload photos to the Getty Images collection. With their massive reach and your images, you’ll be growing your audience by leaps and bounds. The deal is you must have sold 250 photos with Istock to join this program. From just 46 images I sold 308. So it is pretty simple. Check them out. Istock is regarded as the leader of microstock since it was probably the first company to go large scale. Some of their photographers earn well over $US10,000 a month.

• How to deal with Dreamstime
  by loganhille

  DREAMSTIME is a rewarding microstock agency to belong to. You can be assured of top sales, and if …

  DREAMSTIME is a rewarding microstock agency to belong to. You can be assured of top sales, and if you decide to take a break for a while, nothing seems to stop you selling as long as your keywords are good enough. But the downside is the length of time it takes to get images approved or rejected. Added to this is a feature that gives an approximate ETA for approval, which seems to change backward and forward at will. The first time you get approved, you might expect anything from 2 to 4 weeks waiting for an approval, but do not despair, their is a solution. The answer is to upload as many images as you can via FTP and leave them sitting waiting for your keywording. By doing this you sneak into the queue. Because the images are given an upload number which regardless of how long it takes you to keyword, your place in the queue remains reserved. The answer is to upload 50 images, and then release them to the reviewers one at a time. Pretty soon you will see that you are getting the images reviewed in less than 24 hours. Not only that, by keeping your submissions down to a few at a time, your approval rating will rise, since you do not have reviewers looking at different perspectives of essentially the same image all the time. Have fun with DT.

• Who is 123RF?
  by loganhille

  123RF is a microstock agency owned by the huge InMagine corporation. They are specialists in owning …

  123RF is a microstock agency owned by the huge InMagine corporation. They are specialists in owning a suite of smaller agencies and collectively harvesting the talent to InMagine. One of the great things they do is sell via CDs. In this way the photographer is directly rewarded according to the volume of sales they make. You only need to be part of 1 InMagine agency to be part of the action. Now the sales are not huge. I have 215 photos on the site and last month made a measly $US46.45 in sales. But you need to spread your portfolio. I chose 123RF because the uploads are so damn quick. My plan is to have around 5000 images online across the agencies in a few years. So based on the sales by volume, 5000 photos on 123RF would make me about $US8,000 a month. Now getting motivated to take 5,000 photos is another thing … lol.

• 10/07/08 - First Sale - Kootenay National Park Panorama
  by Brendan Schoon

  Weeeee, my first sale on the internet. Unfortunately not on redbubble. WOW. Yes. I can’t tell you how happy I am. I’m thrilled!!! Sold…

  Weeeee, my first sale on the internet. Unfortunately not on redbubble. WOW. Yes. I can’t tell you how happy I am. I’m thrilled!!! Sold my picture through iStockphoto, visit my iStockphoto account here

• 10/09/08 - Second Sale - Bryce Canyon National Park, The Lonely Tree
  by Brendan Schoon

  Weeeee, Yes, Yes my second sale in one week I can’t tell you how happy I am. I’m thrilled!!! No, double thrilled!!! Sold my picture t…

  Weeeee, Yes, Yes my second sale in one week I can’t tell you how happy I am. I’m thrilled!!! No, double thrilled!!! Sold my picture through iStockphoto, visit my iStockphoto account here

• My Stock Experience So Far ....
  by Ryan Carter

  Well, stock photography. A good money maker, or a waste of time?? So far for me (about 2 months so far) it has been good, a good lear…

  Well, stock photography. A good money maker, or a waste of time?? So far for me (about 2 months so far) it has been good, a good learning experience with the added benefit of making a little pocket money. When I decided to go ahead and upload my photos to sell as stock, I did some research looked at different sites, and decided to go ahead and upload to a few different sites: / Shutterstock / 123 Royalty Free / Can Stock Photo / Dreamstime / IStockPhoto / Fotolia / Big Stock Photo / I figured that the more sites i was signed up to, and that were displaying my images, then the more people would see them, and then hopefully buy them. Things started off fairly slow, with one or two sales per week for the first few weeks. Now however in the last 2 days i have had about 15 sales, which has just encouraged me to go out, take more photos, upload them and give people even more of my photos to download! The whole stock thing works great for me at the moment, as I am still a Photography student for another year, and this helps to fill in my spare time, and gets me out taking more pictures, something that i love doing. So really it can only be a good thing! The money is only trickling in at the moment, however it is at least trickling, and that for me is the exciting part. I believe that if i consistently add more photos to these sites, and increase my skill and expertise also, then this will end up being quite a substantial money earner for me. And hey, who doesn’t want to earn money from their hobby?? So far, just top give you an idea, a couple of my highest selling images are: / / Anyway, I know a few people are selling stock already, and i know of a few who are interested, so I wanted to keep you all up to date with what I’m doing!

• Became an exclusive contributor on Istockphoto!
  by oksancia

  Exciting news, everyone! :D Today I got a little crown next to my name on my Istockphoto profile...

  Exciting news, everyone! :D Today I got a little crown next to my name on my Istockphoto profile ! It means that I became an exclusive contributor and, starting from today, my vector illustrations (meaning eps. files) can only be bought there. This was a tough decision, but I thought It would be interesting to try the exclusivity on ;) It won’t change my work here on RB or on Zazzle in any manner. It is only about vector images that I sell royalty-free at microstock website. Stock vector illustrations are my main work at the moment, so I’m very happy to begin something new and more professional in this area! Here is the screenshot of my profile and statistics at the moment: I wonder how it’ll change in some time… I do hope this is the beginning of new and exciting creative adventures! Hope it will free me some time for other personal and freelance projects that I have planned ;) Will write a review in a couple of months… Wish me luck! ;) Hugs! / Oksancia

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  Autumn Walk
  by Csaba Molnár

  Photo was taken during an autumn hike somewhere on a Hungarian hilly region with a fixed 30mm fast lens. This picture is available on my iStockphoto site.

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  Burning Grasses
  by Csaba Molnár

  Photo was taken during a hike on a hungarian hill country with a fixed 60mm lens. This picture is available on my iStockphoto site.

• My Experience of Stock Photography ....
  by Ryan Carter

  Well, its been a while since I wrote an update on my Stock Photography adventures. I started uploading to Microstock sites in December…

  Well, its been a while since I wrote an update on my Stock Photography adventures. I started uploading to Microstock sites in December 2008, so its been about 8 months now, and overall it has been a quite positive experience. Sure, people say selling photos for such small prices is not worth it and only devalues yourself and the industry, however, I have found it to be quite profitable so far, especially as I am a student and can upload photos I take for school assignments and then sell them over and over again. I am signed up to 7 different sites: / Shutterstock / 123 Royalty Free / Can Stock Photo / Dreamstime / IStockPhoto / Fotolia / Big Stock Photo I choose to not go exclusive on any site, which then gave me the opportunity to upload the same photos to each site, which further expands the possible market size for my photos. Each site has different pay structures and commission amounts, check out the individual sites for the exact amounts, but so far the most profitable sites for me are: Shutterstock, IStockPhoto, Dreamstime and Fotolia. Each month on average I earn upwards of US$150 total across all sites, and all this with photos that I am taking for school assignments, or things that would just be sitting on my hard drive not doing anything, Well, thats about it for my latest update, I am still uploading a few photos a month and it seems to be growing, as all sites have seemed to earn more $$ the longer I have been there, new uploads or not. Its not enough to retire yet, but it is paying for some nice new equipment! If your interested in trying Stock Photography, I would encourage you to give it a go! Thanks for having a read ….... These are some of my best selling images: / /

• Stock Illustrations
  by fizzgig

  I have stock illustrations available at the following sites. Check them out! iStockphoto / “Drea…

  I have stock illustrations available at the following sites. Check them out! iStockphoto / Dreamstime / ShutterStock / Fotolia / ClipArtOf.com / VectorStock