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08/27/2010 12:10:52 PM · #1 |
I am new to this thing and applied at I stock photo and was not accepted. I am in the process of submitting my things to dreamstime In hopes they will accept my photos... What is an easy site to get into for begginners? Where did you begin?
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08/27/2010 12:27:10 PM · #2 |
It's not easy to make decent money at stock photography. Speaking for myself, I'd have more success selling my body, and I'm no catch.
Dealing with real people makes real money.
Message edited by author 2010-08-27 12:28:49. |
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08/27/2010 12:46:04 PM · #3 |
I started off at fotolia, but recently took down my stuff as I over the course of 5 years I made $11. Seems if you're going to go the microstock route, then get in with as many of them as possible and submit like crazy is the only way to make any kind of $$.
Were you told why your images were rejected? Was it content or technical stuff? I now submit only to Alamy though another stock site has also caught my eye and I may send some stuff to them. (No, no sales yet, but only just got accepted this May).
But Alamy is a macrostock site, and they have a list of 24 criteria and they are very tough. Say you upload 6 images. If just one of those images has one of those flaws, then wham! All 6 are rejected, even if the other 5 were perfectly fine. Often, if an image they've rejected has problems I can't fix, I won't even bother trying to resubmit it.
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08/27/2010 02:54:46 PM · #4 |
| Thanks for the responses. It would be nice to make money but I am mostly doing t for a hobby.. An of course it would make me feel better if some of my material was accepted lol.. I am a begginner so I want to start somewhere simple. |
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08/27/2010 03:06:15 PM · #5 |
| I do best at shutterstock.com. Ive made a few thousand dollars there compared to a few hundred at other sites, but in all fairness I submit more images there (better acceptance rates). I just do it now and then over the past few years and forget about it and get checks every few months. In totl I have abou 500 images selling. |
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08/27/2010 03:09:11 PM · #6 |
Originally posted by Dashboardc33:
Thanks for the responses. It would be nice to make money but I am mostly doing t for a hobby.. An of course it would make me feel better if some of my material was accepted lol.. I am a begginner so I want to start somewhere simple. |
Oh, I see, I didn't understand the question originally.
I started here, at DPC with nothing but a little point & shoot. I entered lots of challenges and read a lot in the forums and learned along the way.
Now I'm a totally awesome photographer and people pay me large sums of money to photograph shoes and boots. I rarely enter DPC challenges any more, because I'm just too good. I don't need to read anymore, as I know everything. Sometimes, when I'm feeling generous, I dole out valuable advice to the dregs.
You're welcome. ;-) |
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08/27/2010 03:26:37 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
Speaking for myself, I'd have more success selling my body, and I'm no catch. |
For a change, I think your first draft was more accurate ... ;-) |
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08/31/2010 03:05:50 AM · #8 |
Yeah, I would try with Dreamstime for starters. They have good sales and a good review system so if your images are OK they'll get accepted and should get a sale or two if your lucky. I find on Fotolia that all the sales come from very few images so you could have 100 images online and still no sales until one day you upload an image they really like and you get tons of sales. it is sort of an all or nothing thing. On Dreamstime the sales are a bit more spread out.
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08/31/2010 03:51:58 AM · #9 |
My first stock site was fotolia, and it is still my biggest earner. Was quite easy to get in, I wouldn't submit those images nowadays, though, they#d probably get rejected for "We already have enough of this subjct".
Then I applied at Shutterstock and got accepted at second try.
Third was 123rf, but I didn't stay there for very long, wasn't worth the uploading and keywording hassle.
Then came dreamstime, medium earner for me, but accepts lot of the the stuff that has been rejected at istock and shutterstock.
Next was iStockphoto, also took me two tries, today it's my second best site.
Then there are bigstockphoto, veer.com, Panthermedia and Polylooks, all four are smaller agencies, but easier to get into, the latter two more specialised on the german market.
Alamy is worth a try too, got only 1 rejection of about 1,100 files yet, but sales go very slow.
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09/01/2010 05:00:03 PM · #10 |
My first were BigStockPhoto, Dreamstime, Fotolia, and 123rf. From there I added Shutterstock, iStockPhoto, Can Stock Photo, and Featurepics. And through the last couple of years I added some more. you can find my complete list of agencies that I work with at //stock.hlehnerer.com/SA.html I re-sort this list every month by performance. The three big factors at microstock are Quality, Quantity, and Diversity. Don't be discouraged if iStock and Shutterstock will reject your application a few times. Just keep trying. When you send them the images for your application make sure that they are not all of the same theme and/or object.
Message edited by author 2010-09-01 17:00:41.
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