Microstock Earnings December 2008

December was really busy with Christmas and everything so not much happened.  I hope people don’t find my numbers discouraging, especially since I don’t.  I’ve not really been putting much time into this endeavor.  I’m doing it more to learning something new and get better at photography.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	155	0	$0.00	Added one file, but no sales
IStockPhoto	98	0	$0.00
Crestock	21	0	$0.00
ShutterStock	111	11	$2.75
Stockxpert	152	2	$0.60
Dreamstime	39	0	$0.00
123RF	174	1	$0.36
Totals	Avg.107	23	$3.71

Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away

Allen

Tags: earnings, microstock earnings, Photography
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Microstock Earnings November 2008

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

Tags: earnings, microstock earnings, Photography
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Microstock Earnings October 2008

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

Tags: earnings, microstock earnings, Photography
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Microstock Earnings September 2008

Didn’t do as poorly as what I had thought this month.  Only loaded a couple images into ShutterStock and IStockphoto.  My computer is currently getting rebuilt so that hasn’t been very helpful either.  Hopefully I didn’t lose many pictures.

Site	Portfolio Size	Downloads	Earnings	Comments
Fotolia	148	5	$8.85	Sold another EL accounting for $6.60 of the total
IStockPhoto	86	5	$7.48
Crestock	21	0	$0.00	Still nothing, Didn’t even try to get my portfolio sized increased in Sept
ShutterStock	85	13	$3.25	Added the 10 new photos at the beginning of the month but nothing since
Stockxpert	107	4	$0.60
Dreamstime	34	1	$1.78
123RF	121	1	$1.29
Totals	Avg.86	29	$23.25

Here’s a couple other blogs I follow that report their earnings:

Microstock Diaries
Nil to Mil
Pixels Away
Captured Little Moments 

Allen

Tags: microstock, microstock earnings, Photography
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