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How do you know that the photographers on Stocksy aren't full-time?

• fennecfoxen 10y ago
  Most US-based photographers selling stock photos are not, in fact, full-time stock photographers, but there are US-based full-time professional photographers who do some stock photography (either with photos shot for stock's sake, or sometimes with surplus photos from other photo shoots, as permitted by the specifics of the shoot). High-quality cameras are expensive, and the relatively low returns on stock photos aren't usually the best use of that capital. More full-time stock photographers are from places like eastern Europe, where the cost of living is lower.
• brudgers 10y ago
  My intuition [maybe that's not knowledge] is that the application would require a portfolio of stock images, hence the photographers are almost certainly already in other stock image sales channels. There's little reason to assume that they will drop those other channels. Because of the ownership model of Stocksy, there's little reason to bring on photographers without an existing track record selling stock images.