MirjanaV

Thank you for your time and suggestions @Matt Ashmore, you're very polite. I'll incorporate what I feel is right and work on my performance. The winter is coming which means more free time as well. Best regards

Thanks @Matt Ashmore Noted. And I agree, I should have posted a portfolio for review earlier. As a single mother, who lives and works on Grandpa's farm, does housework and occasionally serves as a driver, I deactivated all my social network accounts since June so I can dedicate all of my free time to Alamy and taking photos I came across the information that newbies should not have hope for profit during first year, and that I should expect regular sales after 2000+ pictures. This August, I sold one, in September two, from which one was sold for $ 50 and all were paid off. QC has 3 stars, I am on Alamy 10 months Because of all of that I strongly believed I was on the right track. Right up until I posted my critique portfolio, Only used Nicon's software, and starting from November I started using Photoshop, primarily camera raw, thanks to the comments I got. Honestly, my kids were trying to convince me from the very beginning, but I felt like it would be time consuming and that I would be left with "too many Photoshop" pictures so I refused to use it. Once again, thank you all for the advice given. Much appreciated

Thank you @Bryan for your time, your advice is very helpful. I'm going to learn about the histogram, black point and white point : ) https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/histograms1.htm https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-read-and-use-histograms/

@Johnnie5 I understand, I will photograph Serbian products and I hope to find some free time to travel around the country and take pictures where allowed. Thank you Mirjana

@Johnnie5 Thank you for your time. Because I'm pretty busy and photography has been my hobby for the last year, I used all my free time on Alamy. I gave up with microstock in June and have no more than 300 photos on a couple of MS sites. and, frankly, even if I had the time for it, I don't know how much it would actually pay off to photograph products, signage, restaurants, historic sites, museums etc. in my country because pictures are being bought for 0.25$ and they are misusing licenses, probably because this economic crisis has been going on for decades now...Mostly, I take pictures of insects, plant diseases and plants in my area.Photographing relaxes me, I like to take a photo of something the way I see it.Thanks again, I'll pay more attention to the tags and the brightness in the future. @BobD I know, I deleted some but it takes 6 months for them to disappear from the site, most of the pictures are me experimenting. I'm still learning. Thanks a lot

Knock, knock, anybody here? :)

Hello to all photographers I'm an amateur photographer. I like to take pictures and started learning about microstock in 2013. I quit because i had family health problems. In the meantime, I realized that I don't have feeling of microstock. In january 2019 I finally found the time and started photographing, found Alamy: " Whether it’s your full-time job, a weekend hobby or you’re a student" and I try. With the help of Alamy and photographers forum tips, I started posting photos. I have 3 sold photographs so far, and I found 1 photograph in an article on the internet, but it is not yet reported as a sale. Cleared Balance: $28 I really like to take pictures and I think I'm doing better, but I would like you to give your opinion and advice. I uploaded, among other works, 2200 photos in the past 9 months. I'm tired I'll take a break https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/mirjana Does it make sense for me to continue contributing to the Alamy? My pictures? My caption and tags? By the way, Alamy is a very functional site, and thanks very much to the photographers for the tips on the forum. Best regards and thanks for your opinion. Mirjana from Serbia ( I don't speak English, so sorry for any mistakes in writing. )