A full month of sales during the Coronavirus lockdown! So how did I do? Surprisingly well! My earnings were pretty solid all through the month and I didn’t really see as much of a drop at weekends this month: The first week included Easter, which is obviously a holiday in many parts of the world and that was slow, but after that, things were good for the rest of the month. Overall earnings ended up being $2805. This month is...
It is getting harder to remember life before the virus. I guess it is a month now since West Virginia officially started sheltering in place although I think I probably started a little time before that. And really, no end in sight to any semblance of getting back to normal life. I know I tend to be on the more pessimistic side of things but my current view is that we will not get anything like normality until the middle...
I was at a loose end this morning (there is a limit to the number of studio based stock images I can think of!), so I decided to look at some of the trends that I could see from Microstockr Pro. I signed up to this app many years ago now, and I find it invaluable for tracking where I am in the month (which is interesting, but not something you can impact), but more importantly, to look at the...
As you will have seen from my post yesterday about what I have been up to in early April, I’ve concentrated more and more on shots that I can create at home that I think will gain some traction during the current emergency. We are able to go out (but not in any groups) around my area, and so I did take a few drone shots when the weather was nice last week, but it is cold and miserable now...
Being isolated at home can be OK for a time, but unless you are active in some way, the days can get very long. If you are able to work your normal job from home, that is great, but if that isn’t possible then what can you do. To some extent I am used to this sort of life, having worked from home for about 10 years now, but I’m missing the trips to see new places and I am...
I’ve written before about the amazing way that Luminar 4 can change skies and can now, with the latest release, seamlessly add clouds or other objects into your own skies. I haven’t been playing with it too much recently as I have been working on new images to fill the growing need for illustrating our new normal, but I just got to know that they have an Easter Sale starting today. I’m sorry of you bought this at the higher...
After building my new computer, I spent some time reloading all the apps and thinking about how I was protecting my “assets” – the still and video files that are the core of my business as a stock photographer. I’m also a technology consultant (in my spare time) and so I have those files as well to think about. I maintain a system where things are reasonably well structured across various hard drives, the core of which is: Storage structure...
As I explained earlier, all the news and most of the magazine/website articles for the foreseeable future will be all about the virus and its impact on life everywhere on the planet. I still see sales of travel images, but since the start of April, they have been somewhat fewer than before. Of course, you can’t really take many more travel shots, but it might be a time to go back through your portfolio and see if there are images...
Another month goes by and what a month to remember! Although I doubt if we will feel any better at all about April (and May…). However, on the stock photo front, things really picked up for me. I ended the month with $3141 which is the best result for quite a few months. For various reasons (mainly to do with having $600 in video sales), March 2019 was way better than this at $3675, but with all that is going...
Way back in 2015, I built my last computer and while it was pretty good for the time, I’ve become frustrated by Premiere in particular when working with 4K videos. The playback within the app seems to have been getting worse and I started using proxies for editing and color correction, but of course it takes minutes sometimes to create the proxies from the 4K video in the first place. So with expectations of a tax refund from the IRS...
