Earnings from Photography in September 2022
September turned out to be a big improvement over the previous months. Is this the start of a winter peak – we will have to wait and see!
Category: Stock Photography
Earnings from Photography in July 2022
Middle of the summer and maybe a recession in the offing. What does that mean for my earnings from photography this month. I’ve dropped the word “stock” because my wall art sales did pick up a bit in July so I’m trying to be a bit more inclusive. So, at the end of the month (with EyeEM missing in action), I ended with $2876. This is not a record, although the highest month was in 2019 with just $100 more,...
Sales from stock photography May 2022
All in all, a pretty good month with total earnings of $3016 although not as good as I achieved in April where I managed to end up with $3407. What really made last month special was the number of prints sold, especially on Pictorem, and this month was OK, but nothing like as good. Still, this is the highest May for 6 years, so I cannot complain! As usual, here is my graph of earnings: I didn’t add any images...
Premium – the end of Premium?
I will be the first to admit that I have found Stock Photography less interesting in recent months and have been struggling to identify new trends coming up. As a result, my own uploads have diminished – perhaps 10 images last month! But my ideas for this Premium membership group have been lacking as well, I have thought. As a result, I think it best to close this initiative. If you wish to cancel your regular payment, just go to...
Steve Heap talks about Stock Photography
What, again? Yes, I was invited to speak to a gathering of the Shutterbugs Excursion group via Zoom this week and hopefully educated and entertained the 40 or so people present. The plan was to speak for about 45 minutes, but with the questions and the interesting discussions, this extended to almost 100 minutes! If you really want to learn more about Stock Photography (and selling photo prints), you can find the recording of this session in my YouTube channel,...
Premium – stock photo ideas for March 2022
It is amazing to me that I have been able to keep this up for more than 2 years now, with one, or occasionally two or more posts every month. If only I had followed all my own ideas – I could have retired! This is a difficult month to forecast new concepts that might catch fire, when the news is full of the invasion of Ukraine. As I have mentioned in the past, only certain hot topics are suitable...
Random things!
I’ve been a bit indisposed of late and hence not my normal productive self. After two vaccinations and finally a booster shot about 10 days ago, I finally caught the virus. I wish I could have thought of some smart stock photo ideas of that event, but nothing came to me. My wife was first (and we are not at all sure where it came from as we are both mask wearers in public areas) and was quite ill for...
Using Social Media to boost wall art sales on FAA
I’ve been promising this for a while, but only recently have I been able to sit in a chair long enough to actually put pen to paper due to my strained back. It is surprising how long these apparently simple injuries can take to heal. Of course, playing golf last week may not have been the best idea… Building my Portfolio But back to social media. I have continued to build my portfolio on Fine Art America and now have...
Earning from Photography February 2021
Always an interesting month – just 28 days, but it follows a usually slow start in January. This month followed that pattern with a growth from January, a growth over Feb 2020, but still a middle of the pack sort of performance. The final score was a total of $2812 for the month. This is all becoming very stable (which is good), but the growth of years gone by seems to have stopped. Not surprisingly, bearing in mind the pressure...
Annual Review of Stock Photography 2020
Time to look back at a very unusual year and not just in Stock Photography! It is fascinating to think about all the changes that we have lived through in just one year with some pretty major changes impacting us all in our profession (or hobby) of trying to make money from our photography. Of course the biggest change that impacted newer and smaller contributors significantly was the decision by Shutterstock, with little notice, to completely rework their contributor payout...
