chris_rabe Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 I'm not "new" to stock, but only just dipped my toe in in the past. But I have been on a drive to change this lately, which has taken a lot of time sorting out my personal photo catalog (still got a fair chunk of keywording to do). Hopefully within the next week or two, I will be ready to start submitting photos in earnest - but only once I have cleaned up my catalog and the various stock sites I have submitted small chunks of photos to. I am considering sticking with two different agencies, and going exclusive to each, for differing content types - one nature and wildlife, one everything else. One thing I would like to know, as I was recently reading the Alamy blog about those photogs who had made £100000+, was how certain images could sell for thousands in one transaction? I have had a single image sell for about $20 max, but what options could a purchaser choose that would put the fee into the thousands? Not that I think I will manage one of those sales, but I am extremely curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 You'll find the £100000+ was earned over a number of years. Sales in the thousands are very rare nowadays. There aren't that many grossing 5 figures here and the average is probably not that much different from yours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandyD Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 2 hours ago, chris_rabe said: I'm not "new" to stock, but only just dipped my toe in in the past. But I have been on a drive to change this lately, which has taken a lot of time sorting out my personal photo catalog (still got a fair chunk of keywording to do). Hopefully within the next week or two, I will be ready to start submitting photos in earnest - but only once I have cleaned up my catalog and the various stock sites I have submitted small chunks of photos to. I am considering sticking with two different agencies, and going exclusive to each, for differing content types - one nature and wildlife, one everything else. One thing I would like to know, as I was recently reading the Alamy blog about those photogs who had made £100000+, was how certain images could sell for thousands in one transaction? I have had a single image sell for about $20 max, but what options could a purchaser choose that would put the fee into the thousands? Not that I think I will manage one of those sales, but I am extremely curious. go on to one of your own images in the catalogue and play around with the placement options...it will give you an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvallee Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 Welcome Chris. There is a problem with your hummingbird. It's been tagged as Costa Rica sunrise. In AIM, don't forget to deselect the images you're not keywording. Good luck. Gen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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wiskerke Posted July 24, 2018 Share Posted July 24, 2018 9 hours ago, chris_rabe said: One thing I would like to know, as I was recently reading the Alamy blog about those photogs who had made £100000+, was how certain images could sell for thousands in one transaction? I have had a single image sell for about $20 max, but what options could a purchaser choose that would put the fee into the thousands? Not that I think I will manage one of those sales, but I am extremely curious. There has been a thread here about that blog post at the time. wim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rabe Posted July 24, 2018 Author Share Posted July 24, 2018 Thanks all for the replies. Gvallee, I have wiped all my existing photos, so it'll be sorted when I start putting things up again Cleared out my microstock accounts - but will leave one active to put the dregs on 😁 Started making headway with keywording my catalogue - having spent weeks categorising stuff, that shouldn't be too painful. Just need to figure out the alamy lightroom plug in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rabe Posted July 31, 2018 Author Share Posted July 31, 2018 Well, finally after a long time working on my metadata for my photos, I have started getting a few up, testing the submission waters using the alamy lightroom bridge and seeing what I can get through. First 11 new submissions all passed, so hooray! Everything that hasn't sold previously has now been removed from microstock sites, ready to be re-distributed. Going to take a long time to get anything worth submitting up, but at least I have finally reached a point I can consider moving forward! But I still need to find an agency for wildlife stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_rabe Posted August 7, 2018 Author Share Posted August 7, 2018 49 submissions and no rejections - I think I learned a lot from my microstock experience Having said that, I do have some stuff which I still throw at MS - and have had several rejections recently from Adobe... oh well, can't be fussed "fixing" those for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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