In the last 6 months, their visit was over 72 million. Really it is huge. Hi, Very useful information — does it make a difference if the photos are taken by a normal, professional or even phone camera? Last questions, which I am sure is very broad, what is the average price of photos taken by phone cameras? Loves all that you shared. And Please have a look to this website which Can help others for more related information.
I really enjoyed this pieces regarding online sales of photos. I will key in to the business — I have great passion in Photo making.
Some of these I resubmitted and the new reviewer approved them. This proves inconsistencies in their review process. It just depends on what employee reviews your work and what mood they were in at that time.
Eventually nobody will ever see your work here, unless you keep uploading current work will only be seen. So much for passive income. Fun fact, making 2. Good guide lines. I am a journalist and have hundreds of photos of Indan culture. Some of them were shut by oppo phone.
Shall we make money with these images. Seems Kenyans are many here so let me also comment. You forgot free sites like pixabay, good for promoting yourself as photographer and maybe get someone serious clients off of it who are willing to engage you in a big project.
Shutterstock on this list? What a joke! They lowered the photographer revenue to 10c per photo sale. Who wants to sell their photos for 10c? I want to sell some of photo of the nature. Honestly, I am not a professional. If you liked you can buy.
I want just suggest you that,please test some of my photo. Interesting article and subject! You could wave goodbye to your unfulfilling , stop having to answer to your boss and start living life on your own terms. Thank you so much for this post. I am really passionate about photography and travel. I wish I had found this article earlier.
It was really an eye-opener. Having your own website is the best solution for me if you want to make money with photography!
Be your own BOSS… and sale your photos. Shutterstock should not be on this list!! Their new lowered fee structure of paying photographers 10c per photo sale is an absolute insult.
Thank you very much for the recommendations. I have used several of them and some of them count more impressions, others pay better, in short each one has its own. Usually it is newspapers and professionals in advertising and the packaging industry.
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It take lots of time and research, and hard work. I strive to post only unique content on my site, and this applies not only to articles, but also to photographs. For a long time I could not figure out where to get high-quality photos for my site.
I took some photos myself, but I have no special skills and a professional camera. Your article helped me figure out my problem. Thank you for helping me make my site better! Regarding Alamy the article is outdated. Personally, I believe that giving control to the third-party website is not a good strategy and staying in control of your price and transactions is ultimately a better strategy.
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Try Envira Gallery free! Related Posts. Good job on the social buttons, social media is so powerful these days Good job with the Yoast plugin SEO is so important these days. Hello is is possible to upload the same photos to every single platform u have on the list? Hi Jodie! I just want know if it is possible to use this site if you are in Africa. Iam kenyan citizen and interested in photo selling but I doubt if at all you accept from Africa? Good article. If I have abstract images, do I have special sites or the same sites listed?
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My camera is my everything. I enjoy seeing beautiful photos that are taken by talented individuals. All your suggestions are very useful. Just drop by to say thanks a lot. I have a few alerts about some of these websites for people who are just starting: AdobeStock — Great site. Pays well. Does not accept editorial content. Thank you very much such a great article. Hi Enviragallery , Loves all that you shared. Adobe stock is bullshit! Simple travel photos are usually more than just landscapes, landmarks and cityscapes.
Remember that there are landmarks local to you, you don't have to travel to exotic locations, document what you see near where you live. It depends very much on the subject, be thinking 'movement in blurred car headlights' than a 'stormy seascape that looks like Mark Rothko painting'.
There are surprising sellers in this area. As well as things like fractals and CG backgrounds, you can sell textures like the ubiquitous 'brick wall' and 'rounded pebbles'; these are easy to take and can sell reasonably well if not already covered by someone else.
Outdoor details like breaking waves on a beach can also create useful 'backgrounds' for a designer to use. Microstock is ideal for buyers in the market for a cheap background pattern, texture or shapes to use as design elements.
While these are fun to take and somewhat sickening to see on-line with a lot of earned downloads, someone invariably got there first with a lot of these subjects. They are however a great learning experience in technical photography, composition and selecting the best images to sell for the beginning stock photographer. Such subjects should be shot if you 'happen across them', keywords and descriptions can be used to differentiate your photos especially with abstract topics like 'future'.
Clearly that's not a way to make a business but for the microstock hobbyist these subjects are fine, and perhaps more importantly, enjoyable! While you can imagine using your photo of some storm clouds for the masthead of some design, look at it from a different perspective.
There is nothing to stop a designer, for the same price, downloading a great looking location shot that includes a stormy sky and cutting and pasting from that. From the agencies point of view why clog up the server with yet another photo of 'just a stormy sky' when they have already accepted one that also depicts a stormy landscape location people might want to use in its own right? Try searching for 'storm clouds' at one of the big agencies, you will see you have some competition to deal with!
If you can draw then consider creating a few illustrations to sell as stock. This is not a subject I can impart a great deal of knowledge on as I have little experience, apart from a few surprise sales from a non-vector illustration I put together in Photoshop in five minutes. The only thing I can say is that there is the potential for illustrations to sell very well due to being fresh, stylish and usable where photos are not suitable; but also look very dated a few years down the line.
Stock sites are currently full of XP style icon sets and web elements, a couple of years back it was all OSX style icons with reflections. True that ageing is the same for some types of photos where hair styles or technology goes out of date, but every time I think of illustrations at the moment with those floral leaf patterns I then imagine how that will look ten years down the line, will I have the same feeling about those as the now dated looking airbrush or pastel business characters in triangular suits that were everywhere less than ten years ago?
Everywhere 20 years ago - Nowhere Now. Icons and sets of web navigation buttons also seem to have high download rates, but their creation is obviously quite time consuming compared to a photo, of course vector illustrations command a higher payout when downloaded as the original vector file. Are these a stock image fad that will go out of fashion? If you have the skills with 3D software then do it, no problems with being rejected for noise or compression artefacts.
I have noticed that I'm seeing a few less silver or gold 3D stick figures with big heads gracing shareholder reports and corporate newsletters, so the boat might have already sailed? There are plenty of microstock portfolios full of thousands of rendered images like this so it's clearly something worth investigating if you are talented in 3D modelling. Here are a few links to pages where microstock agencies have listed images in demand or images that sell well, almost all the agencies have some photographer guides like this listed somewhere on their site:.
Shutterstock Top requires you to be logged into contributor account Take a look at the Shutterstock top images, you'll see that yes, flowers are there, despite being told 'no more flowers please' they still sell the best, because of the popularity of them as a photography subject the quality of the photos need to be nothing less than stunning.
Also keep an eye on Shutterstocks top search's of the last month and week to keep up with current trends, at time of writing I noticed a lot of Spanish keywords are cropping up in the top searches. I guess these are translated from the English ones and you can go to Shutterstock. Crestock: Top 10 best Sellers , and their 10 worst submissions bizarre! Make what you will of these stats from panthermedia and explain them to me if you know what they mean!
Beginners to microstock are the ones who take and upload the simple photos that make other photographers say "wow, that sky with fluffy clouds has been downloaded times! There seems to be no penalty for being 'obvious' with subjects and concepts in micro.
It looks to me that while the big agencies seem to be also accepting more 'grungy and edgy' images perhaps a sign of saturation in some subjects it appears that the 'inoffensive' simple photos are the ones that sell in volume - given that microstock is about quick and easy solutions to image needs this makes sense, 'non-professional buyers' will opt for a safe choice when buying.
Finally a link to our post about picniche , a keyword evaluation tool which compares search popularity with the number of images online; this helps to evaluate potential sales of a concept shoot you might be considering. Microstock style compared with traditional stock photography. Not quite too sure what random photos are - but probably not, microstock images almost always cover a sepcific topic. Thanks for the article. Formatting is not great, but here is the translation.
This was done using Google Translate, using Google chrome. Category Percent Office 4. Category Percent Nature and environment There is stiff competition in the latter category and work has to be nothing short of superb. The others hmmm, well they seem a lack of styling and concept technically things look okay in most pictures. Microstock Blogs and Links.
Microstock Community. Subscribe to Microstock Insider by feedburner Email. For vector artwork, customers will often demand original vector files. This will allow them to enlarge or modify your work to suit their needs.
If you're just getting started with vector artwork, then don't forget to read our guide to working with vector graphics in Photoshop. Photo editing is a skill which requires practice, so the best way to learn it is by doing. As a rough guideline, many popular images are "good photos". The exposure is perfect, composition good, and there's no distracting objects in the foreground, or rude words which may cause offence.
If you're an Adobe Lightroom user, then our tutorial on getting started with split toning is a good place to start. If there's a photo style you really must copy, then knowing how a photo was edited in Lightroom may help. As the Shutterstock data shows, some trends come and go, but other photo styles are always in demand. By building a high quality, consistent catalog, you can start selling more images online.
You could also sell other things online with your photography skills. Trending topics or seasonal events do well at the correct time, but make sure you plan in advance, or combine them with bestselling content to produce something that really stands out.
And if you ever run out of ideas, these Instagram travel accounts could inspire you. From that, you may want to know how to earn money from Instagram. Here are the most amazing apps for Android that will change how you use and interact with your device on a daily basis. He's a professional software developer, and when he's not flying drones or writing music, he can often be found taking photos or producing videos. What Types of Photos Sell Best? Top Contributors Studying the top contributors on Shutterstock yields an interesting result.
Icons can be used for websites, fliers, apps, and more. Seasonal Trends Looking at the Shutterstock top contributors list, alongside their popular image bundle categories, there's a large number of seasonal themes. Popular Searches What people are searching for is a great place to see what images are selling. Popular Categories Just like the popular photos above, animals, celebrities, and vector artwork are all in-demand photo categories.
Creative Trends Every year, Shutterstock publishes a list of up-and-coming creative trends.
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