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Half-time update on selling photos in July

After a couple of poor months,July has been unusual,to say the least. The month started well with the purchase of the full rights to an image on Dreamstime,followed by a couple of enhanced sales on the following two days on Shutterstock –one of our bengal cat with a mournful expression and [...]

Interview with Matt Antonino –Nil to Mil

I was very pleasantly surprised to be asked to give an interview with Matt Antonino,the photographer and blogger at NiltoMil.com. Matt is famous for a very aggressive target for his stock photography –to go from zero to a million dollars from the sale of his images. How is he getting on –not [...]

Sale of Rights to an image –Dreamstime

In the early days (well at least a couple of years ago!),one of the default settings on Dreamstime was that you would offer to sell the rights for your image at a predefined price of $250,of which you would get $125. As this was the default,I left it like that for many [...]

Deleting single images from microstock sites

I recently sold the rights to an image,and one of the conditions is that I need to remove the picture from all other stock sites,personal sites and exhibitions. Removing it from all the stock sites I submit to was not an easy process,as I had to find out,for each site,exactly [...]

Earnings from Microstock photography in June 2011

Well,time to dust off the camera and get shooting again! June was not a good month for sales with the total not even hitting the $600 mark,ending at $595. The reasons were pretty clear as I looked at the various sites. Although the number of downloads was pretty similar from month to month,[...]