Category: Earnings

Summary of monthly earnings from selling photographs for stock purposes

Stock Photography Earnings in February 2024

It’s a common question – how much can you really earn from stock photography these days? And I must admit that it is getting harder year by year. But after a particularly difficult January performance, especially on Shutterstock, things have taken a turn for the better in February with total earnings for the month of $2986. I was updating my spreadsheet to add in 2024 and noticed that my total earnings from selling photography since I started in 2008 wasn’t...

Income from Photography sales in January 2024

A new year and what a poor start to the year! Yes, I know that our favorite agency resets all the commission percentages in January, but even so, January 2024 turned out to be pretty poor. Total income ended up being $2243 with my normal chart looking like this: And my file count chart: So, what went wrong? A couple of things really – the main one being that SS slumped from $610 in November to $407 in December and...

Earnings from Photography in December 2023

Another year ends! It has taken me a while to write this – I was trying to finish the processing, keywording and uploading of all my photos from the recent trip down the Mississippi (in October!) and I finally did that with probably 700 images uploaded. Quite a few of the ones to Adobe are still in the review queue there, but I did a quick analysis of rejections from recent batches. There definitely was a change in their approach...

Earnings from photography in November 2023

What an intriguing month! Firstly, I had a lot of Fine Art print sales that I reported on last week, then I had the conclusion of a private sale of files for prints that I’ll mention below and finally, an OK month for stock photos. The end result was a record $3940 for the month, all told! My normal chart first: And, for a change, a graph showing the growth of files from an agency that accepts most images –...

Earnings from Stock Photography in October 2023

Month’s zip by and it is time for another review of earnings from Photography. I’ve been away on a cruise – this time down the Mississippi and I have many images to process, keyword and upload. 83 have been added so far as I wanted to perhaps catch the interest in the low water levels on that river, but so far, no takers! Back to the month of October. It turned out to be reasonable, although my sales of my...