Another year ends! It has taken me a while to write this – I was trying to finish the processing, keywording and uploading of all my photos from the recent trip down the Mississippi (in October!) and I finally did that with probably 700 images uploaded. Quite a few of the ones to Adobe are still in the review queue there, but I did a quick analysis of rejections from recent batches. There definitely was a change in their approach...
What an intriguing month! Firstly, I had a lot of Fine Art print sales that I reported on last week, then I had the conclusion of a private sale of files for prints that I’ll mention below and finally, an OK month for stock photos. The end result was a record $3940 for the month, all told! My normal chart first: And, for a change, a graph showing the growth of files from an agency that accepts most images –...
This would normally be part of my monthly summary, but it has been an exciting month in the world of “fine art” and selling online via Print on Demand Sites and so I decided to cover those separately. I have been mortified in the past 2 months with having published a book on selling fine art online and then getting nothing in sales on either Fine Art America or Pictorem in September and October. Now I find that November has...
Black Friday has some interesting sales, but one I didn’t expect was an extra 20% discount off any prints you have made at Pictorem – the site I use for my own large prints that already has free shipping. All you need to do is to upload your file, add the code BLACK20 at the checkout stage and an extra 20% will be discounted. I made six very large acrylic prints earlier this year and I certainly wish this had...
I only mention these from time to time, and only when it is a particularly good sale! I just saw an email that announced that the Jixipix professional digital painting apps will be on sale for Black Friday, with 50% off the normal pricing. That means that each of the Pro Products that I use are $24.99 instead of the normal $49.99 using the code BLK50. I have an affiliate link if you are interested that gives me a small...
Month’s zip by and it is time for another review of earnings from Photography. I’ve been away on a cruise – this time down the Mississippi and I have many images to process, keyword and upload. 83 have been added so far as I wanted to perhaps catch the interest in the low water levels on that river, but so far, no takers! Back to the month of October. It turned out to be reasonable, although my sales of my...
Is there a monthly pattern in stock photo earnings as we often expect? This analysis of the past three years suggests that it may be more stable than we think.
Monthly report on earnings from selling photos and fine art prints online in September 2023. One of a continuing series of reports since 2009!
There are many things that have impacted the earnings of stock photographers and the latest is AI generated imagery. Is this the end of stock photography?
The way that the general public actually finds our photos online is often a mystery and so I always ask to track how my marketing is working.
