Well I broke down and bought the Nikon Speedlight SB-600 AF Flash Light – i-TTL, TTL, D-TTL, Manual – 65.6ft Range, but I bought it from Buy.com instead.
My wife has been wanting an MP3 player and I saw Sandisk Sansa c250 2GB MP3 Player, On the fly FM and voice recording, MicroSD slot -Recertified on Buy.com. An MP3 player for $17 I didn’t think I could pass it up. It is refurbished, but I tend to trust the brand name SanDisk.
Allen
I’m really thinking about adding a Nikon SB-600 Speedlight to my Nikon D80 setup. I’ve got two nice lenses in my Nikon 18-200mm and Nikon 50mm f/1.8. Currently my weakest area is lighting. I think the speedlight will be my best overall option in lighting to start with, but would like to add some studio type lighting for when I try to take some portraits.
I’d love to find somewhere local to pick one up to use for the rest of our Christmas gatherings but the the best price I can find locally is $219. If I can find one for $200 I’ll probably do it, otherwise it looks like the link below to Amazon is about the best price I can get, although it may take a week or so to get the price savings are worth it.
I’ll probably be making the decision in the next day or two.
Allen
Well it looks like around $10/month seems to be right about where I’m stuck on my microstock earnings. Last month I was disappointed with my earnings but this month I’m figuring that unless I step up my dedication and picture taking that’s about where I’m at. In November I got a total of 3 pictures added to Shutterstock and that’s all the new content I got added.
I didn’t even get any other posts made here, although I do have a couple more that I want to make.
| Site | Portfolio Size | Downloads | Earnings | Comments |
| Fotolia | 154 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| IStockPhoto | 96 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Crestock | 21 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| ShutterStock | 109 | 27 | $8.43 | |
| Stockxpert |
152 | 2 | $0.60 | |
| Dreamstime | 38 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| 123RF | 164 | 1 | $1.20 | |
| Totals | Avg.104 | 23 | $10.23 |
Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:
Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away
Allen
OUCH! Last month I thought I did okay while not getting much work done on adding photos. Well this month I’ve done more to get pictures uploaded, but did quite a bit worse.
I think the next thing I need to work on is actually doing a shoot specifically for stock. Right now I’m taking opportune shots but not doing the work to do a shoot that ‘tells a story’ or is specific ‘concept’. Today I think I got some good fall decoration shots, but it’s really too late in the year for them to be of much value this year. Should I wait until next summer to upload them?
I did hit one of my goals of getting 100 images in my ShutterStock portfolio. I was hoping to get it done on IStockphoto as well but they’ve been so slow at reviewing I haven’t made it. And it has seemed that most of my images have been getting rejected anyway by IS.
| Site | Portfolio Size | Downloads | Earnings | Comments |
| Fotolia | 154 | 1 | $1.65 | |
| IStockPhoto | 93 | 4 | $5.55 | |
| Crestock | 21 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| ShutterStock | 106 | 18 | $4.50 | |
| Stockxpert |
152 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Dreamstime | 38 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| 123RF | 164 | 0 | $0.00 | |
| Totals | Avg.104 | 23 | $11.70 |
Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:
Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away
Allen
