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started in 2004

1994 images on sale.

426 of which have been sold

929 sales in total

 

highest: 8500.00

lowest: 0.83

 

deleted: a lot

to be deleted: a lot more

not uploaded: zillions

 

wim

 

edit: the lowest was

 

BK5NBB.jpg
 
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started in 2004

1994 images on sale.

426 of which have been sold

929 sales in total

 

highest: 8500.00

lowest: 0.83

 

deleted: a lot

to be deleted: a lot more

not uploaded: zillions

 

wim

 

edit: the lowest was

 

BK5NBB.jpg
 
;-)

 

 

Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted?

 

BTW, I never delete anything.

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Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted?

 

BTW, I never delete anything.

 

 

No zooms; no sales and the rest is gut feeling. Mostly in the form of: what was I thinking when I uploaded that?

There are quite a bit of those still in my collection. And contrary to popular belief, they do not sell. 

(Maybe my belief too: I play the lottery as well.)

 

There are some surprise sales:

AM5KHE.jpg

250.00

I would never think of uploading something like that again.

Usually however it's the opposite: I don't get it why some images don't sell. Or don't sell more often.

 

Occasionally I'm proud of myself and the client:

C0JA67.jpg

only 15.00, but serious mag used it exactly as intended.

 

Maybe I should run a competition: vote out the worst of my images.

 

wim

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Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted?

 

BTW, I never delete anything.

 

 

No zooms; no sales and the rest is gut feeling. Mostly in the form of: what was I thinking when I uploaded that?

There are quite a bit of those still in my collection. And contrary to popular belief, they do not sell. 

(Maybe my belief too: I play the lottery as well.)

 

There are some surprise sales:

AM5KHE.jpg

250.00

I would never think of uploading something like that again.

Usually however it's the opposite: I don't get it why some images don't sell. Or don't sell more often.

 

Occasionally I'm proud of myself and the client:

C0JA67.jpg

only 15.00, but serious mag used it exactly as intended.

 

Maybe I should run a competition: vote out the worst of my images.

 

wim

 

 

No doubt everyone has "What was I thinking? images. I just leave them alone in the faint hope of surprise sales coming along. Have had a few. In some months any sale is a surprise.

 

A rash of $0.83 sales was the main reason I bailed out of NU. Still waiting patiently for the $8.5K one that you mentioned.

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Wim, what criteria do you use when deciding whether or not an image should be deleted?

 

BTW, I never delete anything.

 

 

No zooms; no sales and the rest is gut feeling. Mostly in the form of: what was I thinking when I uploaded that?

There are quite a bit of those still in my collection. And contrary to popular belief, they do not sell. 

(Maybe my belief too: I play the lottery as well.)

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Wim - knowing you, you probably have a very good reason for this - but why not simply move those images to a separate pseudo rather than deleting them? My understanding is one pseduo doesn't affect any other, so there would seem to be no risk in this strategy ... hmm! 

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". . . the rest is gut feeling." wim

 

Gut feeling is another way of saying "intuition" or the use of the knowledge that sits in our subconscious. I consider this to be my most valuable asset. 

 

With regard to "what was I thinking (images)," I don't have that problem, even with the silliest of my none-selling images. I click the shutter release to capture for stock only if the subject suggests a caption. So the caption answers that question. Am I wrong a lot? If being wrong means not making a sale on a certain image, a certain subject, I am. But what about tomorrow? Will that picture sell tomorrow?   :huh:

 

Edo

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