Selling Photos Online
October’08
Earnings: US$ 2,622.24
Uploaded Photos: 0 images
Total Revenue from Microstock in 2008: US$ 25,240.53
It’s now easier than ever to earn extra money from your images by selling them online via micro stock photography sites such as Shutterstock, Fotolia, Dreamstime and many more (please keep reading to find out how much I earn from each stock photography site)..
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It goes without saying that to be successful your shots need to be ‘good stock photographs’ and available in high resolution format. But presuming that all this is in order, how do you maximize sale ability?
Good Stock Photographs
Firstly, you must know how to take good stock photographs. For those who haven’t heard what stock photography is.. Stock photography is photography or imagery that can be licensed for specific uses. Its use is very popular with designers, graphic artists, art directors, advertising agencies, and marketing professionals, in magazine ads, websites, and marketing brochures. Instead of hiring a professional photographer to create an image, a buyer licenses an image and the photographer is paid a commission. There are many books talk on how you can take good stock photographs, and here are just some of the very basic points;
- No digital noise, please…
Most agencies rank each photo based on it’s overall quality and potential for salability. Make sure your photos are clear, crisp, nicely composed, well lit and most importantly free of digital noise caused by high iso, underexposure, long exposures and over-processing.
- No snapshots or tourist-like photos, please…
Do not ever think that you’ll earn lots of money by selling your snapshots or tourist-like photos. This is not a get rich quick scheme. Your photos must be commercially in demand and highly usable for art directors or designers. You can take a look at the most popular files once you’ve signed up to an agency to get an idea of what is selling. You can also review other professional sites like GettyImages, Corbis, and Comstock to get some inspirations.
- No logo/copyrighted material, please…
When you’re submitting photos to the microstockphoto agencies, make sure they don’t have any company logos, trademarks, third-party images and brands.
- Ask your model to sign a model release..
Unless if you’re submitting editorial images, you must provide a model release for any recognizable person in your image. Each agency has its own standard model release form that you have to fill in and send along with each image containing a recognizable person. I usually send the same format of model release [Download model release], and send it to all agencies without any problems.
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Choosing The Right Photo Agency
You need to find out whether a website will be worth your while by logging on and having a look around. Views the types of images stocked, and determine whether yours are on par with their quality and style. You can check how many visitors (traffic graphs are available below) and the number of times each image has been downloaded. You can also join the community forum usually available on the agency and ask the other members regarding their selling/month, etc. Use this information to answer the question: How likely is it that I will actually sell my images through this website?
Categorizing & Keywording
Sellers can usually place images in more than one category – exploit this by placing yours in as many as possible. The importance of this is that while visitor and site members browse websites, photo buyers shop by category. Getting your photos listed within the right categories ensures they appear in front of the right audience.
Keywords are there to give your photos a further away of being found by searches, and websites will give you a certain amount of characters to play with, which you should exhaust. Keep your keywords simply and accurate. Remember, do NOT enter “junk” keywords or keywords that are not applicable to an image. This will slow down your approval process or even worse, get your photos being rejected.
Uploading
Usually you have three ways to upload your photos to the agencies. The most common one is using the web upload form which is available on all stock photo agencies. Then you have the ActiveX/Java uploading system which available only on some of the agencies. The last one is via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) software which I think is the easiest way of uploading your photos as what you need to do is to drag and drop your files from your computer to their server. You can also schedule your upload anytime you want (I usually do my uploading at night just before going to sleep). Unfortunately, one of my biggest money maker agencies (ie. Istockphoto) does not have this option available, instead the agency has its own uploading software where you have to pay to get the pro version.
To be able to transfer your photos via FTP you will need an FTP Client such as CuteFTP and FileZilla for Windows users or Cyberduck for Mac users. You can go to software repository sites such as download.com or tucows.com to find your FTP client program, read the user reviews, download & install it to your computer.
Below are some stock agencies where I submit my photos to..
SHUTTERSTOCK - http://submit.shutterstock.com
Shutterstock is different than other stock models. Buyers subscribe on a monthly basis and can download up to 750 images over the course of 30 days. You’ll get 25 cents every time one of your images is downloade. Uploading photos is easy, they have 3 uploading system; (FTP, HTML, and activeX). The community forum is also a great place to hangout with bunch of friendly people.
October’08 Earnings: $823.25 (1090 photos online)
FOTOLIA - http://www.fotolia.com
Fotolia is the newest micro-stock photo agency and really has a lot of earning potential.For each photograph sold, the photographer receives a commission based on the type of license sold to the customer. Fotolia currently has a local presence in 5 major countries: USA, France, Spain, Germany, and UK. Biy mid 2006 they plan to be in all English speaking countries and all major European countries. For more info about their commision structure, please visit http://www.fotolia.com
October’08 Journal
Surprising performance by Fotolia. Despite only having to upload 25 photos last month, my earning on Fotolia has jumped from $600 to $800.
September’08 Earnings: $720.45 (1160 photos online)
DREAMSTIME - http://www.dreamstime.com
Dreamstime has been online since 2000 as a Royalty-Free stock photography website, selling CD imagery. The concept has been redesigned, upgraded and adapted to the market’s need, evolving into a powerful and active community in March 2004. Your commission is .50 for each photo downloaded, but I believe your commision would increase as more people donwload your photos. Please visit their site to check the detail of their royalty figure.
October’08 Earnings: $521.33 (1131 photos online)
BIGSTOCKPHOTO - http://www.bigstockphoto.com
Since launching the site last May 2005, BigStockPhoto has grown to over 110,000 images, with 6,000 added weekly. With 11,000 buyers and 3,100 photographers, it’s one of the fastest growing stock photo sites. The site has a sophisticated search engine, multiple light boxes that can be shared with friends and colleagues, how-to articles and tutorials, forums, and an easy-to-use features for uploading and downloading photos. Whenever a person downloads one of your photos, your account balance increases by 50 cents, you can also make up to $20.00 for special licensed photo sold.
October’08 Earnings: $230.11 (1253 photos online)
123RF- http://www.123rf.com
123RF.com is wholly owned by Inmagine. They have been in the Royalty Free industry since year 2000 and had since accumulated a strong database of repeated users. Prices for single images are available in low-res, med-res and high-res and are set at $1, $2 and $3 respectively. You will be paid a direct 50% of the actual price for each of your image sold.You can also earn money from their subscription revenue which is based on the total of downloaded images that belong to you and on the total revenue in that particular month.
October’08 Earnings: $120.76 (1245 photos online)
ISTOCKPHOTO - http://www.istockphoto.com
Some say it’s the first and the biggest microstock agency online today. No wonder if istock has more skillful photographers than other agencies. Which means, more competition for you photographers. Your photos have to be really stand out to be able to sell well in this agency.
October’08 Journal
In general, Istock is the agency that rejected most of my photos. From 95 photos submitted this month they only accepted probably around 15 of them :(. They also have this ridiculous upload limits for non exclusive contributors. If you’re a new member (base) you can upload 15 photos per week (that’s right! you have to wait for 168 hours until you can submit another batch of 15 photos). If you’ve been there for a while like me and have more than 25000 downloads, you can only submit 30 photos per week. Earnings are also decreasing each month. My suggestion is if you’re new and NOT thinking of becoming Istock exclusive contributor just don’t bother to submit on their site since it looks they’re really giving their non-exclusive photographers (or me) a hard time
October’08 Earnings: $206.34 (698 photos online) | back to top
TOTAL EARNINGS
October’08: US$ 2,622.24
September’08: US$ 2,614.5
August’08: US$ 2596.61
July’08: US$ 2248.64
June’08: US$ 2546.61
May’08: US$ 2874.93
April’08: US$ 2687.79
March’08: US$ 2381.30
February’08: US$ 2455.02
January’08: US$ 2241.39
Total Revenue from Microstock in 2007: US$25,662.79
December’07: US$1707.33
November’07: US$2035.89
October’07: US$2124.36
September’07: US$2034.24
August’07: US$1966.26
July’07: $1987.43
June’07: $2048.15
May’07: $2278.92
April’07: $2354.59
March’07: $2561.99
February’07:: $2194.88
January’07: $2368.75
Total Revenue from Microstock in 2006: US$23,725.79
December’06: $1840.20
November’06: $2025.67
October’06: $1722.91
September’06: $1876.76
August’06: $2038.33
July’06: $1921.87
June’06: $2060.23
May’06: $2286.5
April’06: $1924.50
March’06: $2120.35
February’06: $2062.70
January’06: $1845.84
December’05: $1216.83
November’05: $1421.92
October’05: $1384.59
September’05: $980.80
FAQs
1. Can I make a living out of this?
Well, I think it all depends on which country you’re living in. But here’s an idea on your earning potential from the industry. Meet Yuri Arcurs, a full time stock photographer and a uni student at Aarchus University. He makes $300/day (times that by 30 days, which is around $9000/month) by selling his photos on Shutterstock alone!! Now, that’s the figure you and I should aiming for because I’m sure you can have a pretty good life in whichever country you’re living in with more than 10K/month (and it keeps growing if you keep taking photos).
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2. Can you post the same photo on multiple stock photography websites?
Yes, you can..unless if you choose for being exclusive with Dreamstime or any other agencies that offer exclusivity. Then, you MUST only submit your photos to that agency.
3. What type of photography seems to be the most profitable?
Shoot what you like.. But keep in mind that your photos must be commercially in demand. While some photographers say that people photos always sell really good, my best sellers have always been landscape/travel photographs.
4. Are you selling the same photos at multiple agencies?
Yes, I am.. as I’m not being exclusive to any agency and I’m selling all my photos as Royalty Free.
5. How do you increase your sales?
I think the key is you have to upload lots and lots good photos. See FAQ no. 1 above for an inspiration.
6. Do you have any keywording tips?
Please check out the keywording tips posts here, here, and here
7. Can I see your portfolio?
Sure, You can go to my photoblog to see samples of my work.
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this site is cool!….i like it, and i want to try to make money from my photo too.
Great site. I was wondering if you upload the same picture or can you upload the same picture to more then one online stock agency.
Thanks Darcy
You can upload the same pictures to more than one site..Unless if you’re exclusive with Istockphoto..then, you can only upload to them.
Good Luck!
Hello
I was wondering if you can help me.
How did you get good photos with your canon d300.
I bought the same camera just because you said that you started with that one and you took acceptable photos to sell on the web.
I try to take the photos in jpeg mode but they are to small (3.2 mb) to sell on the web.
They accept as minimum 4.0 mb. Sow i try taken the photos in raw mode witch gives me a size of 5.2mb but then i have to change the format to jpeg and it goes down to 3.2mb again.
I am a bit lost now. Can you help me?
Please reply direct to my email adress.
Carlos Gomes
I shot in RAW and then converted them to JPEG (maximum quality) using photoshop with Canon EOS 300D (not D300). It’s a 6.3 million effective pixels digital SLR camera and it was enough to take great photos for stock.
Hello again
Thanks for the reply, when you shot in raw mode and then convert it to jpeg how havy does your photos get?
(Comments wont nest below this level)Cause mines go down to 3.2mb when i convert it.Does the same happends to yours to?
How havy does your photos get after converting them?
Thank you
Carlos Gomes
so appx how many pictures have you uploaded at one of those websites? im a struggling designer/photographer, just did my first wedding actually, but this seems like a great way to have some money on the side. you have a great website btw, keep up the good work
(:
Very interesting, this article has open up my mind. I really want to make money online beside the add stuff. Just wonder, is paypal the only payment form they used? I’d love to have payment by check
Will, as u can see above..I have around 500-700 photos at each stock site. The more photos you’ve got the more earnings you’ll get each month.
Veedee..I’m sure that they also have payment option by check..
Is there any way to see some samples of the images you sent in so we can get an idea of what they are looking for to get returns like you are?
You can go to photoblogku.com, most of photos there are also available at those stock sites..
Can you recommend any interpolation software to upsize images to suit the image library requirements? I know of Genuine Fractals but not really any others.
Capture NX enables you to ‘upsize’ images for Alamy.
I only use GF and it works like a charm..The software is also recommended by Alamy.
Hi, I was just wondering what some of your most popular photos are because i’m interested in selling some of my photos but most are nature/scenery related.
Right now, photographic websites are crying for more photos. Most are struggling to accommodate the hundreds of thousands of image buyers currently browsing through their websites. Seriously, photos are in such high demand that Getty Images (the parent of iStockphoto) reported annual revenue of $857.6 million in 2007 - and since most of their pictures sell for around $2 to $15 - it doesn’t take a genius to see how lucrative this business can be. Good luck!
While other photographers have good sales on people & lifestyle photographs, my best sellers have been travel related photographs such as tropical beaches, mountains, the outback, etc..
hi,
just checking, you may have already mentioned - how do you receive payment from each online agency?
cheers
I am running a technology related blog and spend a bit of time taking pictures and making illustrations. From time to time people ask for permission to use my pictures commercially.
I am looking for a site that would allow me to upload a couple of pictures and handle the transactions if people want to buy non exclusive rights.
For me it seems like most of the sites you mention here is based on volume. If you have a couple of hundred pictures out there you can make some money.
Do you know any sites that could let me set a better price because people have contacted me specifically to buy one particular picture?
I found this one:shutterpoint[.]com
…but they want payment for the storage of my pictures…
@ above poster.
I suggest you try Image Vortex, they allow you to set whatever price you like for your images & no charge for hosting. Similar to the other sites in terms of reviewing & approval etc but perhaps more suited to what you have in mind?
ATB Daniel
Giles..I always receive my payment thorough paypal from all agencies mentioned above, accept for alamy, where they have bank transfer payment option to australia…
Hi eirikso, you might want to buy one of those sofwares where you can make your own photo site then upload your own pictures and sell it on your site. With this, you can set your own price..and don’t have to bother to pay any commisions..
Thank you for your reply. I have Gallery running on my site. I will look into the possibilities that exist for that software. My host also let me install Zen Cart.
Until then I’ll do an experiment with shutterpoint.com just to have a possibility to sell my pictures and accept all kinds of payment when people ask.
The price of Shutterpoint might pay itself compared to the time I need to set up my own shop…
Hi eirikso, You might want to try photographersdirect.com. They have the best deal of all.Check them out and you will see what I mean.
Nuff regards
Olugbenga
Hello, very very nice web site. Thanks for being so open and helpful to the rest of us.
I have two questions if I may:
1) You have 250-600 photos on these web sites. Do you have to keep adding more photos at certain intervals to maintain the income, or did you just post all your good photos once and now you are raking the benefits?
2) Are all of these 250-600 photos taken with 6+ MP cameras, or are you able to make any money with as low as 2 MP cameras also?
Thanks for your response.
Mike
Hi eirikso!
You can try http:/www.featurepics.com
No payment for the storage + your own price for images
(sorry for the wrong address in the previous post)
Hi Mike, I haven’t added any photos for the last 3 months..and, yup..I took most of my photos with canon eos 300d and sigma lenses, until recently i upgraded my camera to EOS 5D..and added some Canon ‘L’ lenses.. I don’t know anyone shooting with 2MP camera though..
I have just started submitting to Alamy. Do you find it better to sell your images through the royalty free or Licenced options? I guess they are both Non exclusive. Using either of these options still allows me to sell images elsewhere, right?
Thanks
Hi Martin, I sell my images through both royalty free & licenced depending on what the images are likely to be used for. There have been many discussions about this on Alamy mailing list at yahoogroups. You might want to join and check out their old message archive. Here’s the link: http://groups.yahoo.com/search?query=alamy
Many Thanks for that I have just joined.
Hi, Reading down your lists above how many photographs have you actually uploaded. I see that you have 700+ at Fotolia and only 500+ at shutterstock is that 1200 unique images or actually 200 unique with 500 being hosted on both sites or somewhere between the two.
Also do you know if the make and model of the camera effects the number of downloads… ie images taken with a Nikon or Canon would out sell that of say a Fuji.
Great info by the way.
Thanks
Great website, I wanted to ask you, do any of the sites you mentioned above place some pictures before others? In other words when someone does a search how can I get my pictures to come to the front of the line?
Thanks and keep up the great work,
John
Nigel… Those are the same photos hosted on both sites. It’s just there’re about 200 photos were accepted at fotolia and rejected at shutterstock.
I don’t see that camera brand will influence your selling. As long as you can take great photos and do your keywording properly, you can earn some good extra money..
John, Keep uploading..they have the search result based on the latest photos being uploaded to their sites..
Can any company trasnfer the amount that I get by the selling pics to my bank account rather than in check or paypal form cause in my country the chek less to 10000 USD is not cashed. And if not than can I get the facility of money order etc doesn’t matter even if they are going to deduct the cost from the money I earned. Please do help me in this connection I shall be very thankful to you.
GREAT STORY! I’ve been on Istock for awhile, but it’s taken me awhile to get any decent downloads going. I mainly like sports, wildlife and landscape. I just passed the 100 mark for images accepted. Would my portfolio do better at another site?
Thanks for the great site! Very informative. I had a couple questions.
Are all these uploaded as RF ( royalty free )? I assume if you submit your photos RM ( Rights Managed ) that each photo can only be submitted to one agency.
Thanks,
Jim
Vahaj, I think it’s only alamy that’d transfer your payment to your bank account..Rob, you wouldn’t know if you don’t try it…Jim, yup..those are royalty free images.
Thanks a lot. I have a question. What’s the software to sell photos online? I’ve searched for it but can’t find the answer. Is there a free software or open source?
Thank you
How much time, effort and money did you spend to producing the hundreds and hundreds of images required to make a few grand every month?
And once you subtract your expenses and overheads do you actually make any profit at all?
I often make more from a single rights-managed image sale than you make in an entire month of RF micro-stock sales.
Don’t you think your time and resources would be far better spent creating quality imagery for rights-managed stock?
Kim
Jimmie, I did not use any software either..what I usually do is upload my photos with a FTP software to those agency. Except for Istock which has its own software…
Kim..Well, I’m not a pro photographer, and I don’t have any intention to be a pro…Photography is just my hobby, just like travelling. Most photos submitted are usually taken during our family’s holiday. I really think that it’s much better to get them work for me and give me an extra $1500-$2000/month rather than just sitting on my hard drive and do nothing.
It’s great story! It’s really cool that making money of your hobby.
Just want to confirm with you - is it ok to submit a photo to all of the sites you listed as Royalty-Free?
Thank you!
very nice site !! I am interested in selling photos online.
I really want to make a living doing this.If you could give some advice that would help me achieve my goals - what would it be?
Thanks,DJA
Great article, thank you so much! I’m just a tad confused with the comment about “exclusive” with istockphoto means you can’t upload to anyone else. Can you not be exclusive with istock? I’d love to get a group of images on all of these websites, except alamy, and I would have to exclude istock from the list if I could only post certain pics there. Thanks!
Amia,
It’s fine to be non-exclusive at Istock. You wouldn’t get any benefits by not uploading elsewhere until you reach 500 downloads anyway. They won’t even call you exclusive until you reach that number.
Rob
now listen this might sound rely stupid but i dont get how the buyer gets the photo do you send them a print or what
hello for some time now i am obsesed with photos, but i dont have a good cammera i only have a 4 megapixel. i now am thinking of getting a new cammera and start selling my photos also. whould a cammera like canon G7 be acceptable by these sites?
sorry for the double listing. but i have another question. if i photograph people do i need a special licence from them in order to sell the pictures? and if yes what is the format?
Tom, you send/upload your digital photo files to the agencies mentioned above, and buyers buy/donwload the files from those agencies.
Tassos, IMHO..it’d be much2 better if you use Digital SLR cameras such as canon 400D, Nikon D80 etc.. Yup, you’ll need a model release signed by your models to be able to sell their pictures. You can download the model release template from the agencies.
what do you think of Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ 50?
Tassos.. whatever camera you’re going to get, make sure it’s not prone to digital noise as it’s very influence your photo acceptance rate at the agencies. Eg. I used EOS 300D before, my acceptance rate was around 65-75%..When I bought the EOS 5D a year ago, my acceptance rate was up to around 90%. So, read the reviews..see what editors say about the camera’s noise.. DMC-FZ 50 review roundup is available here: http://www.dphotojournal.com/panasonic-lumix-dmc-fz50-review-roundup-sample-photos/
ok so i just happened to stumble across this and it seems pretty interesting.
i JUST got a canon rebel xti. i’m assuming that will be good enough quality for photos to sell (hopefully my photos are as well).
are there any other websites that any of you would suggest for me to just find out more information?
i’m no pro photographer either, but i enjoy taking photos, i don’t think i’m terrible at it, and this would give me some motivation and challenge myself to take better photos.
so if anyone has any tips or more information (and have enough free time and courtesy) please e-mail me. calculuzz@gmail.com
i would greatly appreciate any input. thank you.
Hi…
Great site… fascinating.
I’m planning to interview a few photographers about some sell photo questions I had. Would you be interested in participating? It would be good to know your perspective…
Please let me know at your convenience.
I can be reached at hurleyboy AT gmail. com
Any other photographers who have had some success at selling their photos online or off are also most welcome to email me. The benefits to those who contribute will be greater exposure and more promotion for their websites and photography.
I’ve got a newletter on this subject and you can sign up free at my site:
http://hurleypixx.com
Thanks….
Martin H
Thailand
Hello! You have a great source of information here. My question: what software do you use to organize and keep track of your hundreds of photos, and where you have posted them.
Thanks very much
Martin, thank u for your interest.. To be honest, there are tons of microstock-photographers who earn a lot more than I do..Try to ask people in the online forum at the agencies mentioned above, they should give you some good insights regarding the business.
Joseph, I don’t use any softwares to keep track of my photos, I usually check on the online stats page at each agency to see which pictures sold and the total earning of the day.
This is a great resource, I’m very interested in selling stock online, as I have a social disorder, and find it hard to work a regular job.
Once I get myself a decent camera and a form of I.D… I’m coming back to this page and taking all of your advice.
If you have a person in a picture, but you can’t see who they are (they are a sillhouette, only partially in the picture, etc.) do you still need a model release?
Hello! As Kim mentioned before: “Don’t you think your time and resources would be far better spent creating quality imagery for rights-managed stock?”. I see your point in your answer and I agree with it. However, do you have any idea of anybody shooting rights-managed stock (which is not of that much higher quality) and of profits it would make? I mean is it better to supply many micro-stock agencies at the same time or maybe it would be better to contact a more “pro” agency? I see your calculations for micro-stocks. Any idea what capacity and quality I’d have to supply to pro stock agency to get the same money?
This “blog” was super informative and I really appreciate the actual list of stock sites with their traffic rankings… that really helps…
I noticed several people asking about selling their photos on their own website using purchased software. I recently found a software which takes all of about 30 mintues to implement, gives you a fully functioning store with full admin , and you don’t need to know anything about building a website. Runs on your own server/website etc. etc… great stuff. if anyone is interested here’s where I found it. http://www.bluegellmedia.com/software_ktools.htm
I tried it out this week and it’s working like a charm.
Kelly..All the best !!
Sair.. Nope, you don’t..
Paul.. It’d be interesting to see pro-photographers shooting for big right-managed stock agencies such as getty images sharing their opinion here..
Gene.. Thank you for sharing..
Thanks for your answer ! Yes, it’d be definitely intresting to see one of “the big guys” over here.
One more question though: so you have more less 600 photos on each site. Could you share what sells most? What subjects? What do you think of cityscapes, buildings, architecture?
Do you think that going exclusive at any RF agency pays more than having your images spread across several agencies? Also, does having a creative network and active forum postings help to sell and market your images? Thanks for all the great info…
Paul.. Please read the FAQs above..
Glen.. can’t answer both of your questions as I never try to become exclusive and I hardly post any messages in the forum.
Why waste your time on 123rf.com? Stockxpert.com has a lot more clout and a lot more traffic!
Take a look:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/… [url is too long]
A couple of the websites mention that you should have copyright of the photos, e.g. “you must own the rights for each image you upload to our database.”
How do you go about doing this? All my photos are my own, but do I have to copyright them somewhere first?
Cheers
AnnA
David, It’s because I just had more than 100% increase in revenue at 123rf (and now it’s higher than my earning at stockxpert and a waaay higher than csp), so I thought they started doing the right thing to increase their traffic /sales…
Anna…nope you don’t…Once you take a picture with your camera, you’re automatically holding a copyright for that particular pict.
Eirikso, what is your strategy for labeling the pictures that you post? Let’s say you have a great yellow flower picture. Do you spend hours trying to find the latin name, or do you say yellow flower, or just flower? Same discussion goes for landscape shots. Do you label as forest for example, or do you say Impressionamus tree forest from the Tintoarna region of the country Pixelon? Thanks, and keep up the phenomal work!
When using FTP upload is there a way to upload to multiple servers at once or do you have to do it one-by-one?
Paul, I’ve been using CuteFTP from GlobalScape where I can schedule the file transfer. What I usually do is schedule all file transfers to multiple servers before go to sleep at nite, and let the FTP program does the rest..
Your earnings seem quite high especially for sites like Dreamstime and Fotolia. You must have an awesome portfolio full of popular downloads. Can you post a link to your portfolio for istock and others?
Sarah, you can visit my photoblog ( http://photoblog.dphotojournal.com ) to see samples of my portfolio
hi
is this your main job?
or is it something you do just to earn extra money?
Kim, nope.. I work as multimedia developer and used to do this just to avoid arguments with my wife when it comes of buying those expensive photography equipments
… Now, that Ive bought all photo equips I ever wanted, I use the money to pay for my family vacation.
Hi,
I don’t know how to say. I find this website at internet. And I have some wonderful pictures of natural scenery, but I’m in China. I don’t know if I can sell my picutres on this website? And how to get payment? Thank you!
Hi Lynn…There are bunch of photographers from china who sell their pictures from the agencies mentioned above. You can get payment by cheque or paypal.
Congratulations !!!
So… let’s the shootin’ start .
do you sell you photo on featurepics.com ?
i have nearly 100 photos on there site, but none of my images have been sold!?
if i really put my time and effect to this, could i do this as my main job?