If you stopped shooting for a while...

Canon EF 24-105mm f/4.0L IS

02/23/2007 11:20:43 AM · #1

Hey all,
I posted this question on istock a while ago, and I thought I'd ask the stock shooters here. If you put your camera down for a month, and you concentrated on only submitting photos to your stock sites from what you have on your hard drive that you haven't edited / keyworded / uploaded yet, how many pictures (in your best guess) would you be able to submit? In other words, how many decent, stock-worthy shots have you already taken, but haven't submitted? I'm reasonably sure I have over 200 (and my stock portfolio only has about 260 in it now).
So 'fess up! How far behind are you on your editing and keywording?

-Don

scalvert

Canon EOS-5D Mark III

02/23/2007 11:22:25 AM · #2

Thousands. I just submitted a batch to Photographers Direct (including my last 3 ribbons) and it took nearly a week to rate them... all at 7. :-/

Message edited by author 2007-02-23 11:25:18.

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

02/23/2007 11:22:31 AM · #3

About 5 years behind. Most of the shots I've sold are from 2002.

hopper

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM

02/23/2007 11:32:31 AM · #4

I don't know anything about stock websites, but I can tell you that I've been thinking about submitting to some local galleries for consideration. I'm having trouble coming up with 20 or so images that I'm both happy with and would look good in a collection together.

perhaps i just suck :)

so, I guess "thousands" is not my answer

:)

Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM

02/23/2007 11:34:32 AM · #5

Wow, I don't feel so bad now! Funny thing is, I got the same response on istock. Even the big dog diamond-level shooters have gigabytes worth of shots on their computers that need some attention to get into the istock portfolio. Of course, everybody knows that shooting is a LOT more fun than editing and adding keywords, so I guess it's not too big of a surprise.

idnic

Canon EOS-60D

02/23/2007 11:40:47 AM · #6

I have about 400 images in a folder waiting for editing and keywording. I try to do 100 at a time, but I'm really behind right now. I despise keywording, its so monotonous.

Shannon, my last single upload to PD was an 8. :P

Gordon

RIM BlackBerry Curve

Canon EF 85mm f/1.8 USM

02/23/2007 11:42:29 AM · #7

Originally posted by hopper:

I'm both happy with and would look good in a collection together.

Sort of off on a tangent, but how often to you go shoot on a particular common theme ? Do you work on long term or short term projects at all ?

That seems to be a good way to start pulling together consistent bodies of work. Otherwise you'll maybe have lot of great one-hit wonders, but nothing cohesive.

Now back to the regularly scheduled stock discussion...

hopper

Canon EOS-80D

Canon EF 35mm f/2 IS USM

02/23/2007 11:44:19 AM · #8

true. true.

Originally posted by Gordon:

Originally posted by hopper:
I'm both happy with and would look good in a collection together.

Sort of off on a tangent, but how often to you go shoot on a particular common theme ? Do you work on long term or short term projects at all ?

That seems to be a good way to start pulling together consistent bodies of work. Otherwise you'll maybe have lot of great one-hit wonders, but nothing cohesive.

Now back to the regularly scheduled stock discussion...

Spork99

OM System OM-1

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

02/23/2007 12:22:19 PM · #9

I don't really care what PD rates my images as long as they're 7 or higher. With the volume of images they have to rate, I doubt they spend much time on each one. Kinda like some DPC voters that people complain about.

Message edited by author 2007-02-23 12:23:33.

Tlemetry

Olympus E-300 EVOLT

Olympus 50mm f/2.0 Macro ED Zuiko Digital

02/23/2007 12:27:36 PM · #10

I have a year and half I need to go thru and pick out the gems. But I decided to stick with This year to keep up to date and when time allows or I run out of pics to edit...(ya right) I would work thru some of the older ones. (or when a specific request calls for it I will rummage thru them.) Problem is, the first 6-8 months I only shot JPG and not the highest quality setting either. I may have a few salvagables in there but I doubt very many. I have got to back up everything off my hd and get them to an offsite location. That is taking me a LOT of valuable time. I also need to get Alamy library up to par with my PD library. (procrastinating on that one)
jeeze, so much to do, so little time!

Tamron SP AF 28-75mm f/2.8 XR Di for Canon

02/23/2007 12:55:35 PM · #11

Okay, since this conversation has taken a slight turn, let me ask you all how is PD working out for you? Are you making decent money there on a regular basis? Do they take photographers that also submit to microstock? Thanks!

ganders

Canon EOS-40D

02/23/2007 01:13:54 PM · #12

Originally posted by Pixlmaker:

No, they don't. They are very ... ahem ... 'outspoken' about the evil that is microstock.

Spork99

OM System OM-1

Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro

02/23/2007 01:14:12 PM · #13

Originally posted by Pixlmaker:

I haven't been with them long enough to answer the 1st two questions, but as to the third, no, they will not take anyone selling images via microstock.

fotomann_forever

02/23/2007 02:46:54 PM · #14

I've pretty much quit submitting to microstock... just waiting for payout amounts (particularly on the slower sites - 123RF) and then I'm getting out of micro... going with PD and getting stuff ready for Alamy.