Why that title specifically, I haven’t a clue actually, it just sounded nice I suppose. Kinda in a rut over here at the moment, thinking …
Why that title specifically, I haven’t a clue actually, it just sounded nice I suppose. Kinda in a rut over here at the moment, thinking about my images. It’s funny, I think we all think pretty much the same way….about our own images, we never actually really see how good our own work is! Why? I think we become rather numb to it. When I was in college studying for my BFA in Illustration, my professor taught me a very valuable lesson….every hour when you are working on an image, you should get up, step away for 10-15 minutes, and then come back. The reason being because the right side of the brain needs to refresh itself, wipe itself clean, and rejuvenate. Often when this is done, we see our art almost as a new again. Ever done that??? Try it sometime! Another one I was taught, rotate your image 90 degrees, so it is upside down and then look at it. Great way to see if your composition is good. Well I see the flood of DA people is on….seen quite a few new familiar faces on here that I also know from over there. :) Good to see some of my favorite photographers making it here! The knee is a healing,....slowly but surely….think I need to go buy an exercise bicycle to get in better shape. Us old, fat guys need that kinda stuff! lol Happen to just look at my Dremstime stock photo acct and noticed that my earnings at the moment were at $425. Huh? $425- in ONE month?! I thought that there was some mistake…so I looked at my earnings record and it seems someone bought a extended license of one of my shots from years ago of an old 58 Chevy Impala…..$350 smackers on that shot alone! I didn’t know that you could actually sell an image for that much on a micro stock site! Well I was pretty elated! Well that is my story and I am stickin to it! Ohhhhhhhh ordered up some new polarizers and NDs off ebay….next up is a 16 foot remote shutter! :) / Cheers all! How ya doing out there in the wide open land of cameraland?!?? / —-John
Many of us here on RB have recently gotten interested in selling on stock sites. It’s not for the faint of heart. What I’ve found is that…
Many of us here on RB have recently gotten interested in selling on stock sites. It’s not for the faint of heart. What I’ve found is that you need to find sites that appreciate your type of image, submit your work, and don’t get upset by rejection. The competition on these sites is stiff and getting stiffer by the day. As established professional photographers and designers see their income drop from the downturn in the economy; they are increasingly putting outtakes from their rights managed shoots on the non-exclusive microstock sites. All that said, I think for some of us, it’s worthwhile to explore this area for marketing our work. My favorite 3 sites are: / Dreamstime / LuckyOliver / SnapVillage Dreamstime is one of the largest selling microstock sites. I’ve found them to be fair in their assessment of my work. I’m probably biased as they gobble up my fractals. Their message boards are great, too. Their rejection email are canned, but I still find them helpful. LuckyOliver is a relatively new site and not a big seller yet. They are wonderful about working with you to get your images accepted. Their reviewers are the nicest that I’ve found on the web. It’s a very friendly site. SnapVillage is still in the beta stage. The quality on SnapVillage is lower than on the other sites. They admit that they take 95% of all submissions. However, I like them anyway. It’s a painless way to get started posting images for stock sales. SnapVillage is also owned by Corbis one of the big three stock photography agencies. You need to be an established photographer with an agent to even apply to Corbis. However, Corbis is using SnapVillage as a way to try out new photographers. Do well on SnapVillage, and you may be bumped up to Corbis which could result in big bucks. Another helpful site that I found today is: / microstockgroup Microstock group has tons of information on all of the different sites. I haven’t explored it fully yet, but I’m thinking that I’ll be using it all the time for research. Hope this helps anyone thinking about going into microstock selling. Just remember to develop a thick skin and be relentless in submitting your work.
Regardless of whether you are a pro, who does weddings, real estate, or product photography, or an amateur, there is good money to be mad…
Regardless of whether you are a pro, who does weddings, real estate, or product photography, or an amateur, there is good money to be made from stock photography. The great thing about stock is it becomes a lazy income, selling while you sleep, with little effort required at all. Now a few photographers get on their high horse and claim that selling stock photos for a few cents spells the death of the industry, but that is way wrong. Nothing will ever replace macro photography, stock simply makes use of all those images that would otherwise sit on your computer for years unused and unsellable. People buy stock for different purposes. Many businesses buy stock for simple power point demos, brochures, images for their website, or to include in advertising. The amount of money you are paid depends on the circulation. For instance, at Dreamstime, the lowest might be 25 US cents, for a tiny image for a power point demo. Or, you might get $300 for someone wanting to use the photo for a newspaper advertisement. You might also sell the full rights of the image for $3000. There are heaps of tricks and tips. I would love to help anyone out with advice by replying to their questions. From my perspective, I have a small portfolio of about 200 images that makes me an easy $US500 each and every month. All this while I am sleeping, or out doing other stuff. Also, many of the stock agencies are subsidiaries of Getty, Jupiter and others. For many successful Getty Images photographers, stock was how they broke into the big time. I urge you to join the two huge US companies below to start your portfolio. Do not be disheartened if Shutterstock reject your first application to submit. Most of us had to try 5 or 6 times. Like I said, just get something on line and start making money. Every now and then I will give you tips. Here is the first: Keywords. People search by keywords. For instance they may type in “white van” when looking for a white van. So you need to think like a buyer. Also, they may be looking for a metaphor “success”, or “love” and you might be able to sell a picture of champagne being poured, or a wedding ring. BE CAREFUL People will sue if you show brand names. All your images must be altered in Photoshop and brand names and logos must be removed. Click on the links below and start making cash: DREAMSTIME SHUTTERSTOCK
SHUTTERSTOCK is possibly one of the most lucrative microstock agencies for photographers. ...
SHUTTERSTOCK is possibly one of the most lucrative microstock agencies for photographers. While their rate of payment is low, the sales you make well and truly make up the difference. Initially, you would be paid 25 cents per image until you reach $500 in sales, and after that your rate rises again. Rumours abound they are about to give photographers another pay rise. There are a few issues with dealing with Shutterstock. BAD: Takes most people 5 – 7 attempts to be accepted as a Shutterstock photographer. They are picky on any noise showing in the image. GOOD: Super fast approvals, generally within 24 hours. Great sales volume. A tip for once you join. Keep submitting small numbers of photos. Buyers seem to scroll through the newest images and that is how they buy. IF you take a break for a while your sales will plummet.
A new microstock site is getting ready to hit the market. Offering higher commisions than most others also! YAYMicro...
A new microstock site is getting ready to hit the market. Offering higher commisions than most others also! YAYMicro Taken from their site: “Welcome to YAY Micro! / Our aim is to be the first microstock agency that fully incorporates and promotes both editorial and creative content. Microstock contributors take creative photos and create illustrations. They can also take editorial images and create editorial illustrations. The majority of images sold worldwide are to editorial customers. These customers also need creative content. We at YAY see this as a huge opportunity and a win-win situation for both customers and contributors. By combining editorial and creative in one microstock agency we will be able to give the traditional image agencies’ customers a full offering and at the same time serve microstock customers. Now we need your content to help us build the best microstock site!” YAYMicro
So anyone else here submit to microstock sites? I use a few, and it is a good source of additional income, and is great exposure. Upl…
So anyone else here submit to microstock sites? I use a few, and it is a good source of additional income, and is great exposure. Upload your photos and have them approved and ready to download for print publications, design elements, advertising, websites, or art prints. A few I use: Shutterstock iStock Dreamstime BigStockPhoto Stockxpert 123RF Crestock YAYmicro Alamy
View all my stock images at SHUTTERSTOCK or start selling your images. /
View all my stock images at SHUTTERSTOCK or start selling your images. /
Well, I have recently started submitting some of my work to a series of Stock Photography sites to be sold as stock. I am happy to finall…
Well, I have recently started submitting some of my work to a series of Stock Photography sites to be sold as stock. I am happy to finally be making money from old photos that have been laying around on my hard drive for ages. I feel like these photos are actually pulling their weight now! LOL Anyway, If you have any photos laying around that you would like to make some money from, well here are some of the best stock sites I have found and am signed up to. Shutterstock / 123 Royalty Free / Can Stock Photo / Dreamstime / IStockPhoto / Fotolia / Big Stock Photo Give it a go, You’ll be glad you did!
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!
Hi everyone, Thought i would write down some of my thoughts and experiences relating to individual Stock Photography sites that I am u…
Hi everyone, Thought i would write down some of my thoughts and experiences relating to individual Stock Photography sites that I am using. So I will start with my most profitable so far – Shutterstock Shutterstock was the hardest of the 9 sites that I have submitted to, to get my photos accepted. To begin submitting to Shutterstock you have to upload 10 photos, 7 of which they must approve to start submitting and selling your photos. This took me 2 attempts, with a forced 30 day waiting period between attempts. This did get quite annoying, and I did feel like giving up and just using the other sites that I got accepted to very easily. I now have about 40 photos accepted to the site, after almost a month, and have had over 150 sales in that time. Shutterstock has so far been the most profitable of the 9 sites that I am regularly submitting photos to. As far as use-ability goes, Shutterstock is one of the easiest sites to use, and also one of the quickest to review and approve new uploads. Some sites take upwards of 7 days from upload to approval, Shutterstock is on average 24-48 hours, sometimes less! Uploading is simple, I upload via FTP using a Stock Photography Workflow program called Pro Stock Master which basically catalogues and keeps track of my uploads for me. Over all, Shutterstock has been great for me so far, and IS earning me money. I am averaging about 4 downloads a day, and that is with a portfolio of less then 40 images! The money is not huge at the moment, majority of downloads earn me 25c with the occasional one worth more, but I figure its better then having my photos sitting on my hard drive earning me nothing, and it IS starting to add up. In my experience so far, Shutterstock is definitely the Stock site to join if you are wanting to earn some $$ with your photos, quick, easy and profitable. Just hang in there through the initial review process! Click on the link to join ” Shutterstock “ Let me know if you find this useful, and I will do the same with the other stock sites I use.
HI Everyone! Just thought i would let you know that i got my first payout from my Stock Photography endeavors this week! YAY This w…
HI Everyone! Just thought i would let you know that i got my first payout from my Stock Photography endeavors this week! YAY This was from my Shutterstock account. So far i have had a total of about 380 downloads and my payout was around $90 US. SO not bad since the middle of December. Definitely worth my while! Now just to work out what to spend my money on! hehe If you want to give it a go yourself, you can sign up here Shutterstock or read my other posts for some more information! Regards Ryan
Hi all, So, I’m just wondering if many people here in Redbubble are also in the microstock business (as in selling images to designers…
Hi all, So, I’m just wondering if many people here in Redbubble are also in the microstock business (as in selling images to designers). In case anyone is interested and would like to have a go, please do so through the links on my site (because then I’ll get a referral bonus!!!). In the following link (to my site), http://nandophoto.com/Pages/links.html Use the “Microstock” column, which will take you to the sites in question. I would recommend the first six sites. In fact, you can expect daily sales in the first one (although the royalty they pay are very low, they generate a good income). So there. Have a go. Just make sure you read the guidelines before submiting anything, as the technical requirements won’t be overlooked by their inspection teams. Nando.
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: / /
I’ve been selling images through both Shutterstock and Bigstockphoto for 5 yrs. Shutterstock has by far made me the most money. I’m exc…
I’ve been selling images through both Shutterstock and Bigstockphoto for 5 yrs. Shutterstock has by far made me the most money. I’m excited to see how much Bigstockphoto will grow now that it will be marketed and promoted as well as shutterstock has been. How does anyone else feel about Bigstockphoto’s acquisition? This is a great opportunity for anyone wanting to jump into the microstock agencies. Earnings from Bigstockphoto should increase in the near future. For anyone interested in joining either Shutterstock or Bigstockphoto, try these links: / http://submit.shutterstock.com/?ref=2528 or http://www.bigstockphoto.com/?refid=iP8nKume6u
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