This is the first in what I’m planning will be a regular theme of posts under the category of ‘exposure’. Each post will look at one image, the idea being to obviously give the photo and its creator some www exposure while at the same time providing some insight into the ideas behind the image, [...]
April 30, 2011
Free images, on the face of it, appear to be a great deal for photo buyers users and a kick in the teeth for working stock photographers. Or is there a way free could actually work for photographers seeking to make money from their images? Making a reasonable return from stock photography in the current open and competitive [...]
September 17, 2010
A passive income is a beautiful thing. Money that flows to you without any or minimal effort on your part. It is something of a holy grail amongst many Internet entrepreneurs. I suspect there is often too little appreciation of the work that goes into creating such a happy situation; a passive income is usually [...]
July 2, 2010
Crestock has been struggling for some time with backlogged submissions and poor response times to both contributors and image buyers, so for all concerned this should be good news. The scale of the microstock sector is making it difficult for small operations to continue to offer the levels of service required for continued success. It [...]
March 2, 2010
I’ve written about DepositPhotos previously so here’s a quick update to report that I have started to see sales from the modest one hundred and thirty odd images I currently have on sale. DepositPhotos made an impressive late entry into the microstock market with their contributor incentives so I’d hope their pursuit of buyers will [...]
November 24, 2009
Bandwagons keep on rolling long after there is really any room left to jump aboard. I’m really quite surprised to find there are still new microstock agencies popping up. Sure it is relatively cheap and easy to throw a site up. However, it takes a lot more effort to build a worthwhile collection of images [...]
October 20, 2009
Following on from my previous post on the current opportunities to make money selling photos through microstock agencies here are a couple of observations that I think are worth both new and exisitng contributors pondering. A few years ago early adopters of the microstock model could pretty much throw their shovel in the air, dig [...]
October 14, 2009
Let me start by making it clear it has never been easy to make any significant money in microstock photography. The contributors making good money have worked hard to build successful collections over time that bring them the rewards for their efforts. However, a few years ago it was realistic for many “Mom and Pop” [...]
October 13, 2009
Is the blogosphere the next big battleground in stock photography? Newspapers and print media are like walking wounded staggering from the cruel sucker punch the global financial crisis has dealt them. Old media companies that survive will look a lot different in whatever guise they manage to make work and there will be far fewer [...]
October 8, 2009
Despite the number of easy money and get rich quick type articles on microstock photography floating around the web I can tell you it isn’t an easy gig. Yes you can make money selling your photos on microstock sites but it does take a fair amount effort, in addition to photography skills, creativity and some [...]
September 13, 2011