A month to end a year that we would all like to forget, I guess! And I will get back to the full year in my annual review of stock activity that I will write in a few days when the final results are in. But lets start with a world first (for me…). For the first time in my 14 years of writing about stock photography (and talking about it at this well reviewed introduction to stock photography video)...
After a focus this year on stock photos (with some great results), I decided to try to boost the sales of prints of what I call my Fine Art Collection! I mentioned that I was going to try an experiment of lowering my prices to see if that would juice the sales. Well, I gave it two months and nothing much happened, and so I reverted to a new pricing plan that was closer to the ones I have used...
This is probably a post with a smaller following than my normal ones, but perhaps a Godox expert will be able to help! As I mentioned last month, after an unfortunate accident between my Canon flashgun and my ceiling fan, I bought a Sony specific flashgun as a replacement, the Godox V1. (affiliate link to Amazon). I bought it with the accessory kit which comprises some nicely made light modifiers that neatly attach with small magnets to the round head...
Today, I have a few ideas to give you that I haven’t actually done myself, and so there are no example images. I plan to work on them in the coming week or so, but I am also focusing on getting my fine art work up to date on Fine Art America after a couple of sales this month. I mentioned the number of times that I have seen a relatively simple image of a vial for a vaccine with...
Update: It appears that all may not have been as big an issue as I initially understood and may have just been with one contributor. However, I’ll be careful with my posts going forward, but perhaps not the issue I at first thought. I saw some posts recently that Shutterstock was issuing warnings to contributors who share their earnings, royalty amounts or other “confidential” information. This is forbidden in the terms and conditions we signed: By submitting any Content to...
Another month goes by in our new world without travel! It seems so strange not to be packing a suitcase for another stock driven adventure and now six inches of snow have shown me that it really is winter now and time to settle down! As I noted in my normal review of earnings, I have been a bit sluggish at uploading new images with about 40 added during the month. One positive thing about the various sorts of lockdown...
What a business this is. Last month I had a record for earnings, this month I am over $1000 down from that total. Such is the stock photography business in 2020. The month started reasonably well with some biggish sales, but seemed to drop off a cliff after that first week. As a result, my earnings for the month turned out to be $2785. Of course, I know that is still a very solid month compared to earlier ones in...
I get a lot of emails about various discounts at this time of year, and so if you are in the running for one of the products that I use, here are the various sales I have seen: StockSubmitter – up to 80% off subscription sales between 27 November and 12 December. I use this program all the time and I will certainly be topping up my subscription amount. Remember that what you are buying is really a credit and...
A good month or what? I’ll answer that question right away – a great month. If the stars have ever aligned over my portfolio, it was this month as multiple things seem to have gone well, and I ended the month with a career best of $3813! As you can see, well above anything else this year and certainly a big step change over the same month in previous years. So what went well? Right from the beginning of the...
If you are a follower of Alex Rotenberg’s great blog, you will probably have seen his interview a few weeks back with Aaron Amat, the CEO of Kraken Images. As you all know (and I’m painfully aware), I’m not at all good at people images, and don’t feel I really understand the market as well as I do for my conceptual and topical shots, so after reading Alex’s questions, I had some more in my mind. I put a couple...
