Post your most downloaded stockphoto!

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/08/2006 11:43:07 AM · #1

I am interested in finding out what others have found sell well in stock photography. Wanna post your highest selling stock photos? Let us know your download count if you wish to share! I think others can learn from this as well. I know I will have a better understanding of what sells if I see some examples! Thanks in advance!

leaf

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

03/08/2006 11:54:32 AM · #2

My sudjestion for you would be to go to a site like
Shutterstock
Fotolia or
Dreamstime

type in a search that you are interesting in taking pictures of, for example, people, music, food.. something really general like that.

Then sort the list by 'most popular' or 'most sold' This will give you the best idea of what sells. I could post my best selling images,but they wouldn't be very good ideas to pursue because they are textures. They are MY best selling images, but they are not THE best selling images on the site.... or perhaps better said, doing the searches on those sites, will give you a lot larger sample size than anyones portfolio of 100-2000 images.

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

03/08/2006 12:01:14 PM · #3

Thanks Leaf, I certainly will do that. I just thought it would be interesting to see how well fellow dpc'ers are doing and get some discussion going as to what makes for good stock photos.

cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

03/08/2006 12:10:09 PM · #4

You can always go to a stock site and list the most downloaded images on the site. This will give you an idea of what sells.

jmsetzler

Sony Alpha a6000

Sony 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 E-mount

03/08/2006 12:35:15 PM · #5

THIS is my best seller. It has been downloaded 333 times so far...

leaf

Canon EOS-5D Mark II

Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM

03/08/2006 12:39:53 PM · #6

very nice setzler.

Looks like your gallery on istock has been downloaded pretty well... that is to say, you have a number of 100+ downloaded images. well done.

I am still waiting for my first :(

Nikon AF-S NIKKOR 24-70mm f/2.8G ED

03/08/2006 12:41:18 PM · #7

Congrats! I imagine that American magazines and even from overseas would always be needing good flag shots. Do you get to tell what size people have downloaded and where it is used?

alanfreed

Nikon Z9

03/08/2006 12:44:49 PM · #8

Mine is:

...with 132 downloads, followed closely by:

03/08/2006 12:51:10 PM · #9

wow, that must have been awesome to get that close! Still I guess you can only ever have so many rockets taking off type shots, so you have a good market there!

03/08/2006 12:59:14 PM · #10

has anyone ever seen their photos used or been contacted to let you know they were published? I know someone people have said in the past they have seen their photos used on different websites.

03/08/2006 01:10:34 PM · #11

My best. 103 downloads

Tamron AF 18-270mm F/3,5-6,3 Di II VC LD Aspherical [IF] macro for Canon

03/08/2006 01:14:36 PM · #12

Originally posted by troberge:

has anyone ever seen their photos used or been contacted to let you know they were published? I know someone people have said in the past they have seen their photos used on different websites.

Yeap!
found mine here

dahved

Canon EOS-50D

03/08/2006 01:19:25 PM · #13

In the "most-downloaded" category, I think I have the lowest total: 13 times for this one...sheesh.

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03/08/2006 01:22:48 PM · #14

Originally posted by dahved:

In the "most-downloaded" category, I think I have the lowest total: 13 times for this one...sheesh.

My "most-downloaded" is also a A70 shot. God I miss that little camera.
Made me my new equipment. Seriously!

03/08/2006 01:25:02 PM · #15

Originally posted by Tiberius:

Originally posted by troberge:
has anyone ever seen their photos used or been contacted to let you know they were published? I know someone people have said in the past they have seen their photos used on different websites.

Yeap!
found mine here

It must be surprising to find your photo online and to see how the user has interpreted it.

03/08/2006 01:26:47 PM · #16

Originally posted by Tiberius:

My best. 103 downloads

That is one wild shot!

03/08/2006 01:28:24 PM · #17

"Thanks for sharing!
Will use picture for Biblical theme"
That's the comm they left on dreamstime. Then I found the pic myself on a search.

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/08/2006 01:30:18 PM · #18

Originally posted by troberge:

Originally posted by Tiberius:

My best. 103 downloads

That is one wild shot!

It was a wild night as well. Bar hopping in South China!

CreativeFlyPhoto

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

03/08/2006 01:32:48 PM · #19

from Shutterstock ... since May 2005 when i started

digitalknight

Mattel Barbie Photo Designer Digital Camera

03/08/2006 01:44:53 PM · #20

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Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

03/08/2006 01:52:57 PM · #21

photosbyame, that is such a gorgeous baby shot!

I have heard there is such a thing as a stock photo list? A list that gets generated with requests for certain type of images? I think I read it in a stock photo book (which was pretty old) so not sure if it still exists in these days of online stock sites.

CreativeFlyPhoto

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

03/08/2006 01:57:30 PM · #22

Originally posted by troberge:

thanks :)

different sites offer different lists ... i also think it's fotolia's website that i get an email for specific images requested

also i know shutterstock and dreamstime offers forums for people to request specific photos and subjects

03/08/2006 01:59:31 PM · #23

If you submit to shutterstock there is a list with top 100 keywords.

Message edited by author 2006-03-08 14:00:04.