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12/23/2015 05:13:50 PM · #1 |
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12/23/2015 04:36:15 PM · #2 |
Originally posted by RussianMasterPhotographer:
Google images. best stock images and all is free. |
That's not very useful for advice for people who want to make money selling their images. Besides, Google is just a search engine and most of the photos that come up in searches are copyrighted.
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12/23/2015 04:00:47 PM · #3 |
Google images. best stock images and all is free.
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05/12/2015 09:56:54 AM · #4 |
Originally posted by sjhuls:
Originally posted by P-A-U-L:
Just clarified the situation with Shutterstock and YES! my photos have been approved. So it is just a case of waiting for my ID to be approved. I can't believe it really... Very cool! |
awesome! I am on the forums there quite a bit. Not so much lately. They also are very helpful if you have questions about things in the future I would ask them there. You will just get a lot quicker and many more responses than here. Since there are not so many stock photographers here. |
Thanks Jenn. I am really just testing the water but as I work from home and often have downtime it seems a good opportunity to practice my photography. Plus I take tons of photos that just sit on the hard drive - some of these could be potential stock photos. |
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05/12/2015 08:55:30 AM · #5 |
Originally posted by P-A-U-L:
Just clarified the situation with Shutterstock and YES! my photos have been approved. So it is just a case of waiting for my ID to be approved. I can't believe it really... Very cool! |
awesome! I am on the forums there quite a bit. Not so much lately. They also are very helpful if you have questions about things in the future I would ask them there. You will just get a lot quicker and many more responses than here. Since there are not so many stock photographers here. |
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05/12/2015 08:10:47 AM · #6 |
| Just clarified the situation with Shutterstock and YES! my photos have been approved. So it is just a case of waiting for my ID to be approved. I can't believe it really... Very cool! |
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05/12/2015 07:52:59 AM · #7 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Unfortunately I think that just means that the photos are within specification (i.e. "accepted" for review) ... |
Their messages are very confusing as the email I received said the following:
The images you submitted have been reviewed by our team of experts. You can check your status here:
Regards,
Shutterstock Support
Message edited by author 2015-05-12 07:53:34. |
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05/12/2015 07:44:14 AM · #8 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Unfortunately I think that just means that the photos are within specification (i.e. "accepted" for review) ... |
Bah I thought it was a miracle that the 10 photos I submitted had been approved so quick. I would have not been surprised if they had been rejected so quick as I am sure they are not up to the right standard for stock. |
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05/12/2015 07:38:04 AM · #9 |
| Unfortunately I think that just means that the photos are within specification (i.e. "accepted" for review) ... |
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05/12/2015 06:30:49 AM · #10 |
I managed to scrape together 10 photos and had an incredible fast response - though not sure if this status means my 10 photos have been accepted or not?
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05/12/2015 02:20:12 AM · #11 |
Doh thanks Paul (GeneralIE) - I was indeed confusing those terms. Strange as working as a programmer and web designer for over 20 years I should have known.
Btw I had already signed up with Shutterstock about 2 years ago - just never got round to giving it a go. Struggling to find 10 suitable images now anyway so may have to rethink. |
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05/11/2015 05:04:21 PM · #12 |
You are confusing (as many do) mega-PIXELS with mega-BYTES.
The first is the number of actual number of image pixels: 2000 x 2000 pixels would be 4 mega- (million) pixels. My camera shoots 2816 x 2112 or about 6 mega-pixels.
Mega-bytes is how many ones-and-zeroes it takes to store the information, and this number can vary wildly due to image compression (both TIFF and JPEG can be compressed without losing information).**
Shutterstock "only" cares that there are enough pixels -- it doesn't matter how "big" the file is in bytes as long as you save it with maximum-quality compression.
**as an experiment, create a new image 1000 x 1000 pixels, plain white, and save a copy as either JPEG, or TIFF with the LZW compression option. Now fill the image with a gradient fill on a 30° angle and save it again using the same settings, and compare the number of bytes in the resulting images (which have exactly the same number of pixels).
ETA: Do not upsize or sharpen your images before submitting ... your camera makes images plenty big enough for Shutterstock.
ETA some more ... if you haven't already signed up with Shutterstock, use my referral link and I'll get a tiny commission for a while ...
Message edited by author 2015-05-11 17:18:03. |
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05/11/2015 03:48:31 PM · #13 |
Just taking a look at this stock photography malarkey and see that Shutterstock states the following:
Your images should be at least 4.0 megapixels.
If I want to submit images that are less than 4MB - would up-sizing be acceptable or do I need to make sure the source is 4MB from the outset? The examples I am referring to are around 3.5MB each. I am thinking it is perhaps a case of seeing if there is any degradation in resizing but wanted to get a second opinion.
Also if my initial 10 images are rejected from Shutterstock, do I have to delay re-submitting? Also is there a maximum number of times you can attempt to get accepted?
Thanks
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04/27/2015 07:41:16 PM · #14 |
It may take a few tries to get into Shutterstock. You may want to also apply to BigStock, Dreamstime, Fotolia, and 123rf. Here is my list of all the stock agencies that I submit images to: //stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html
Message edited by author 2015-04-27 19:41:34.
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04/24/2015 10:44:30 AM · #15 |
| Is the info on this thread still pretty accurate? If I want to try Stock, I should try to sell to shutterstock first? |
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02/27/2013 11:31:47 AM · #16 |
Yes, I think you have done very well Jennifer,and I like others admire you for it.
Good on you and all the best for the future. |
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02/27/2013 09:33:37 AM · #17 |
did he even read the thread??? I think he thought this was about the stock market.
Originally posted by paulsteven:
Sure doesn't look like an easy way to making money - and I thought the app market was bad!! |
Actually a year later and I am making very good returns. The key is to stick with it and consistently enter quality photos. Now that I have the process down, I only spend around 10 to 15 hours a week and enter around 20-30 photos a week. My portfolio is up to around 1200 images and it is a nice extra income. More than I could make at a part time job working 15-20 hours. Plus I get to work from home doing something I love. Not for everyone, but for me a mom of three young children, I love that I can stop what I am doing to get them a snack or take them to swimming lessons and no one is standing over me. Plus I can take time off without asking anyone or having clients that are going to be upset if I don't get the work done. Sure you can make more if you have a consistent clientele for weddings and portraits, I do some of that but honestly I don't love it. Mostly because you are at the mercy of your clients schedule I didn't like the idea having to leave every Saturday to go do a photoshoot. I'd much rather get my work done while my kids were at school and save Saturdays for doing fun things with my family. Like I said stock isn't for everyone, it would be hard to replace a regular income with it, but for people like me it is perfect.
Message edited by author 2013-02-27 09:38:10. |
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02/27/2013 08:16:00 AM · #18 |
quick! somebody shoot this thread in the head! it keeps coming back to life.
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02/27/2013 08:06:04 AM · #19 |
| Sure doesn't look like an easy way to making money - and I thought the app market was bad!! |
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02/27/2013 07:34:52 AM · #20 |
Web is very good way to get more information about the stock market deeply but if you want get sites then you can get more info from here:
Message edited by author 2013-02-27 07:35:18.
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03/30/2012 10:29:19 AM · #21 |
Seems like you are doing quite well with stock after this short time already!
I don't have that many fotos with the various agencies, a bit over 100 each, but I can say that for me iStockphoto started slow, but now does better than Shutterstock. It's some income you won't want to miss. |
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03/30/2012 10:00:39 AM · #22 |
update for the end of March:
Things are looking good, my goal has been to upload, and get accepted 100 new photos a month. I'm on track for March. This is an average of 3-4 photos a day and 22 photos a week so I have been busy. I now have almost 250 photos in my portfolio.
All the hard work seems to be paying off I will receive my first payout from shutterstock this month.
I also submit to a few other sites: Dreamstime, Fotolia, 123RF, Deposit, Canstock and recently started to upload to Istock.
All of the others put together don't equal what I make at shutterstock but have picked up enough that I think I will keep uploading to their sites, canstock is the worst for sales, but they are really easy to upload to so I will probably keep submitting there.
As I said I recently started to upload to Istock, I wasn't sure if I wanted to bother with Istock I've heard bad things about them, especially if you are not exclusive to them. Also their uploading process is really tedious. But with only 15 images up so far I have already made a decent amount of money so I think it might be worth the all the hassle. |
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03/29/2012 06:57:17 AM · #23 |
| I think ingimage.com are always looking for new photography contributors :) |
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02/27/2012 11:31:29 AM · #24 |
So I thought I would post the results of my first full month in stock, I find it helpful when others post their numbers so I thought I would as well just for those interested in starting up in stock.
I got accepted to shutterstock mid January, (a note about this is if you are thinking about trying stock start here first, if you can't get accepted into shutterstock and start by submitting to other agency's you probablly are not going to get a good idea of stock photo earning potential)
For those wanting to get accepted at shutterstock:
#1 post your photos for review in their critique forums first, experienced stock photographers will look at your photos you are thinking of submitting and tell you if they would be accepted or not. If I would not have gone this route first I would have had all 10 of my first photos rejected for overprocessing.
#2 shutterstock does not like noise and they need to be sharp even when they are viewed at %100 they don't accept photos with post processing sharpening or with a lot of noise reduction software used (with the exception of skies)
So far the month of february looks like this on shutterstock:
#1 Photos uploaded and accepted between 50-105 (I started with 50 and added 50 more as the month progressed) my income seemed to go up as I had more photos in my portfolio.
#2 I made $40.00 for my first month and had a little over 100 downloads, not a huge amount of money but my goal was $20.00 so I am quite happy with $40 since it is double what I expected.
#3 My goal is to upload between 50 to 100 photos a month I think I should start to see some significant returns by the end of the year.
#4 I always see a spike in my numbers when new photos are added to my portfolio so I assume if you just upload 100 photos and then just let them sit you won't continue to make as much as when you first started.
I also submit to 5 other sites but I haven't seen significant returns from them, that is why I think it is best to start at shutterstock. I would be very discouraged if I started out with the following numbers and didn't have shutterstock to keep me positive:
My earnings so far mid january-end of february with an average of 50-150 photos on each site:
can stock: $0.25
Deposit photos: $1.12
Dreamstime: $1.86
fotolia: 2.10
123 RF: 0.00
So you can see there is a huge difference between sites, and like I said start with shutterstock if you can't get accepted there then you are not going to do well on the other sites.
Here is my portfolio on shutterstock:
My Shutterstock portfolio
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02/20/2011 03:25:39 PM · #25 |
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