Microstock Photography – Febuary 2008 Numbers
As I mentioned in an earlier post I’ve really enjoyed developing my photography skills since I got my Nikon D80 a little over a year ago. One of the things I have started to do is submit pictures to some microstock web sites. I’ve been doing it somewhat haphazardly for about a year now. I am beginning to get more serious about it though. I haven’t sold a lot of pictures yet, but I do enjoy seeing one of them get downloaded. There are quite a few blogs and websites about microstock photography some of the ones I’ve been following are:
- Pixels Away – I’m jealous of him, he just started in microstock and already has many more downloads than I do (he is also a better photographer than I am right now too)
- Microstock Diaries
- Microstock Group
- Stockphoto Affiliate
And now I’m going to give out my numbers, if nothing more than to track my own progress as microstock photographer.
- Fotolia – 69 photos, 9 downloads, $4.95
- Lucky Oliver – 71 photos, 2 downloads, $1.20 (I’ve been here the longest just over a year)
- IStockPhoto – 17 photos, 2 downloads, $1.40 (haven’t been submitting to IStock until just the last month or so since I got approved) well worth the effort though.
- Crestock – photos 9, 0 downloads, $0.00 (I’m not sure why I even bother with this one.
- ShutterStock – 3 failed attempts to get accepted
- StockXPert – 1 failed attempt to get accepted
- Dreamstime – just submitted first photos in March 2008
I’m going to need to try to get a table or a better way to display these number put together. Most of the above links, go to my portfolio, I’d love to get some feedback on what people think of my portfolios.
Allen