After six long months of effort, this article will outline how I went about trying to boost the sales of my “Fine Art” photos as print sales on Fine Art America and how successful I have been at that. I wrote about the plan for using Social Media as a way of driving traffic and buyers to my portfolio back in March, and really put the details into three articles in May. The first one was Using Social Media to...
Different sort of heading today in my usual monthly article about how much I earned from stock photography during the month of August 2021. The reason is that Adobe really helped me hit the ball out of the park with their two purchases of my images for their free collection during this month. The second one, on August 30th, was a real surprise, and together I earned $1100 from their $5 an image offer. Very nice! Overall, that made the...
My brain must be working overtime as I have been creating some of the images that I talked about in the previous posts, and came up with some different approaches as I worked on my concepts. Along the way, I uploaded some very simple shots of butterflies captured in our tiny front garden – unlikely to sell, perhaps, but I thought they were nice and colorful! The first concept I worked on was the four day week. This doesn’t seem...
I spent the weekend in bed with a fever (and a possible Covid infection for which I just received the results (negative!)) so I had time to think about many things. One was how to leave your stock photo portfolio to your heirs (which I really need to investigate), but I also started thinking about where ideas for stock photos come from – what makes a good stock photo these days? Of course, there are always needs for models doing...
It is that time of month when I stretch my brain to its limits and see what images I think might be in demand going forward. But perhaps I will start with what I have been working on, and why, and then move onto the new ideas. As you know, I am always on the lookout for something that will be in the news and discussion articles around the world, but not be “news” in the sense that journalists will...
There is a new contest on Fine Art America for 20 images that will be placed by FAA on large billboards in some large US cities. The decision on which images to show is a two step process – step one is to get at least 250 votes for your image and then step two is that a jury of experts will look at those images and choose the ones they like. We can’t obviously influence the second step, but...
Beginning of another month – these seem to come round so quickly! July 2021 was OK in terms of total earnings, but looking below the hood, things don’t look so good! Total income ended with $2933 which is in line with July earnings in the past couple of years. So no growth, but no decrease in that top line number. However, I “sold” 100 images to Adobe Stock for their free catalog and received $500 for those pretty low earning...
I’m still trying to boost the sales of my Fine Art prints, which is a slow process! As part of that, I’m adding more photography or particularly travel photography related articles to my main photo portfolio site, BackyardImage where I have added a blog area. I also joined a group of bloggers from Fine Art America where we are all writing photography articles aimed more at a general reader, linking actively between each other (using a “Follow” setting on our...
I’ve been thinking about what makes a stock image that takes off, especially one that illustrates a story or article. Of course, the subject needs to be in the news, but more than that, it needs to be the subject of more opinion oriented articles. If something is in the news because it is newsworthy in real time – some violence, that collapse of the building in Florida – the website will almost always use some real-life imagery from the...
June is not normally one of my better months and this June was no change to that pattern! Actually, this June was my lowest earner in that month for the past 5 years, which is not a good start to this article! Still not bad at $2604 especially as I have been doing very little new stock work this year. Here is the normal graph with the historical story: Often people ask how many hours I put into stock photography...
