New License from Image Brief
One of my successful uploads to Image Brief was this one: It was awarded in 2014 and used in an advert
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Another sale on Fine Art America
The previous post about Microstockr Pro reminded me to blog about another sale on Fine Art America. FAA sales don’t come round very often, but it is always interesting to see what sells, and this time it was one of those sunrise shots of the Washington Monument from the Lincoln Memorial: This one sold as a rolled print for the buyer to frame and resulted in a $25 profit. Everytime I get a sale at FAA, I think that I...
Microstockr Pro – helping my sales
I wrote about the Microstockr Pro App (currently in free Beta) a few weeks back and have been playing with it since. One thing I noticed that could really help me is the ability to match the same image across all sites and then see the total sales for that image. Why that helped me in particular was that for several years, Fotolia was very harsh on non-people and non-object images. My landscapes and travel images were rejected by the...
Updating my Fine Art portfolio website
Back in 2014 I decided to create my own “Fine Art” portfolio website. It was not particularly to sell images from the site (as I know how hard that is!), but to have somewhere where friends could look at some of my better photographic efforts. I decided to use the Photocrati Theme and explained the process back in this post. I decided that it was the best wordpress photography theme that I could find and at the time, I thought...
Lightroom De-haze Filter on skies
I was just playing with some photos I had taken at Coopers Rock overlook near Morgantown in West Virginia and was pretty unimpressed with what I saw: Pretty bland colors and the sky is very dull – not blown out but uninteresting.
Sales and Earnings from Microstock Photography October 2016
One month I’m going to be really excited about reporting earnings again, but this isn’t that month! Here is my overall graph: Overall, I didn’t even make the $2000 benchmark, with sales ending the month at $1966.
Sensor cleaning problems with Sony A7r II
I noticed a relatively prominent sensor spot on some of my images after my last field trip – one of the potential issues with mirrorless cameras is that there is nothing between the lens opening and the sensor and so changing lenses is always going to have the risk of introducing dust. Anyway, I used my trusty Visible Dust Arctic Butterfly which works by using static in the fine brush strands to pick up the dust from the sensor, but...
Relaxing Photos continue to sell
Earlier this month I mentioned that it was important to just get out into the fresh air and take photos that you enjoy. With a run of warm weather I got out my bike and took some nature shots around Morgantown and just uploaded them thinking “those will never sell!” As I reported, one sold almost immediately on Shutterstock, and now I see that 5 shots from that trip sold today on Dreamstime: This was part of a larger set...
Using Microstockr Pro to find your images online
In my review of Microstockr Pro, I forgot to mention one neat feature that saves a bit of time. If you click on an image thumbnail, you get the screen where the historic sales of that image are displayed. Hovering over the thumbnail on that screen shows two icons – a chain symbol that takes you to the image page on the stock agency, and a magnifying glass. Clicking this opens up the image search page on Google with the...
Microstockr – keeping track of your sales
Although I had heard of the application before, I had never got round to looking in more detail at Microstockr until recently. I’m glad I did! I downloaded Microstockr Pro – the beta desktop version and so far I have been very impressed. There are things they are still working on (a new update came through just this morning), but it is giving me a lot of insight into my portfolio that would be hard to find any other way.
