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• Stock Photography - Shutterstock
  by Ryan Carter

  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.

• Stock Photography Part II
  by Ryan Carter

  Well, as you may know, I recently started selling my photos as royalty free stock on several different stock sites. I don’t know how many…

  Well, as you may know, I recently started selling my photos as royalty free stock on several different stock sites. I don’t know how many other RedBubblers are also doing the same, but i was finding it quite hard to organise photos to remember what sites I had submitted what photos too, what photos had been accepted and rejected from what site etc etc etc. If you also are a stock photographer, I’m sure you have come across this before! Quite a headache! Anyway, I had been using Adobe Lightroom to help try and organise things into some sort of order, and then I stumbled accross a program called Pro Stock Master. This has turned out to be extrodinarily useful, not only to catalogue my “Stock worthy” photos and to record what ive submitted where etc, but it also works like an FTP client and uploads everything for me. It also includes a great keywording feature that helps make keywording ALOT easier and faster! A very useful program. Anyway, I thought as I had found it so useful, so may some of you. There is a free trial, which is unlimited and works just like the full version except only allows 5 uploads per day. I started with this free trial, but soon found i would want the full version, so I bought it and haven’t looked back. The stock sites I am apart of are: / Shutterstock / 123 Royalty Free / Can Stock Photo / Dreamstime / IStockPhoto / Fotolia / Big Stock Photo and this program works great with these and several others also. It sure has taken a lot of wasted time out of my workflow, and made things a heck of a lot less confusing. Click on the link Pro Stock Master. to check it out for yourself.