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 | A question that I am often asked is how you can find out where your images are being used online. I use the Google Images search to do that –and here are the steps: 1. Although Google Image Search works with any size of image,it takes quite a time to upload the full [...] Another pretty good month –even though the Thanksgiving holiday in the US depressed sales in the final week (especially on iStock). Overall sales again beat the $1000 barrier to come in at $1068. Not as good as last month’s $1300,but there were not at many big ticket sales. Veer was $31 instead of [...] As you progress with your portfolio and your efficiency in managing large numbers of images improves,it is natural to look at other stock sites to increase your revenue. There are many,many online sites out there,so how do you decide which one to try? This post is an update on the various sites [...] One of the interesting challenges in stock photography is to identify the next set of photos to take. When the weather is pleasant,exterior shots can be taken,but on cold rainy days,what better than to relax with a nice glass of wine? The Demon Drink This came from a misguided attempt to [...] Another great month! I have now easily beaten the $1200 barrier and ended the month with sales of $1262.67,beating last months record by a cool $200. Most of the sites did well,with Shutterstock setting its own record with $451 and iStock maintaining a steady performance of over $200 in the past 3 months. [...] I noticed this week that the image submission form on Dreamstime now has two new checkboxes in the “Rights Management”area at the foot of the page. I have recommended not clicking on the “Sell Rights” checkbox as that requires you to remove all copies of the sold image from every other location –hard [...] There are many scenic steam railways around the country,but getting a good image of a train is a matter of being in the right place at the right time as the land surrounding the line is usually private. The Western Maryland Railroad has solved that by offering Photographer’s days three times a year –[...] Readers of my eBook,Getting Started in Stock,have probably started by uploading images to the top 4-6 sites,and are slowly getting their work processes honed to perfection! The obvious question is –which site shall I upload to next? This is a difficult decision,because the effort involved in uploading may not be [...] Shutterstock has developed a capability for contributors to group their images into a set (very similar to collections in Lightroom) in a new area called “Catalog Manager”. It is available from the main contributors page. Once you are in catalog manager,you can filter your images by a keyword,and then drag the selected images [...] As I mentioned in an earlier post,I created a new 2012 Kauai calendar and put it up for sale on Zazzle about a month ago. Four sales so far! I also noticed that the choice of calendars for Kauai is not great and the others are priced higher than mine,and so I’m planning [...] |
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