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Registered on Shutterstock 11 months ago, added 9 photos, sold 3 for a grand total of $0.75. Selling stock photos made sense for photographers 10-20 years ago,
by kachurovskiy 7y ago
Registered on Shutterstock 11 months ago, added 9 photos, sold 3 for a grand total of $0.75.
Selling stock photos made sense for photographers 10-20 years ago, not worth it anymore unless you're at the very top.
For the reference: https://www.shutterstock.com/g/MateoSan https://www.shutterstock.com/g/MateoSan
- mc32 7y agoYeah you have to be lucky and get the assignment to do the photography for the desktop backgrounds for Microsoft OSes and such. But with people uploading their images free for others to use, many aren’t bothering with packaging images anymore.
- pakitan 7y agoNice photos but they are very "run of the mill". I can probably find thousands of "snowy mountains" pics, many of them with a free license.
- kachurovskiy 7y agoRight, photos are average at best. I was looking to sell based on location / area where the photos were taken and it worked to some degree - all 3 purchases are from Germany and France. It's just that there are too many photos and photographers out there these days. All pro photographers I've met were struggling to make a living off of it.
- friendlybus 7y agoYou could maybe charge better rates for photogrammetry of real world objects to make 3d models?
- blhack 7y agoThe reason people didn't buy these is because there isn't enough continuous color anywhere to put text on top of.
- jimmux 7y agoI gave Shutterstock and Getty a go some years ago to see what would happen. From about a dozen photos, none of them make any money except one. It's a bit annoying because that one photo is a generic image of a cargo ship. The rest are technically and aesthetically more interesting landscape and nature images. They just don't have the same commercial value as something that someone conveys a general and frequently applicable concept like "shipping".