Photography Selling on stock images website

[Helix_2648]

I tried to upload some of my photos on Shutterstock.com, but that isn't worth the effort at all because you earn too less money with it. Most customers buys a contingent of 200 or more pictures and you earn 0,25€ for a sold photo! And they don't transfer the money until you've earned 100 Euros!

 

[Jack]

I tried to upload some of my photos on Shutterstock.com, but that isn't worth the effort at all because you earn too less money with it. Most customers buys a contingent of 200 or more pictures and you earn 0,25€ for a sold photo! And they don't transfer the money until you've earned 100 Euros!

Alright, then that's a dead end. I might try what Andy Smith suggested. Maybe some luck there. No planning to earn millions, but a few £ a month I don't mind.

 

[Andy Smith]

I tried to upload some of my photos on Shutterstock.com, but that isn't worth the effort at all because you earn too less money with it. Most customers buys a contingent of 200 or more pictures and you earn 0,25€ for a sold photo! And they don't transfer the money until you've earned 100 Euros!

Freepik has a similar pay scheme where they don't transfer funds until you reach a certain amount, it may be 100 euros also but I am not 100% sure on that.

 

[Jack]

I tried to upload some of my photos on Shutterstock.com, but that isn't worth the effort at all because you earn too less money with it. Most customers buys a contingent of 200 or more pictures and you earn 0,25€ for a sold photo! And they don't transfer the money until you've earned 100 Euros!

but then means you may wait a year untill you reach that amount.

 

[Andy Smith]

[CQ='Andy Smith, c: 2965, m: 2006'][/CQ] but then means you may wait a year untill you reach that amount.

It all depends on how many images you sell, I don't worry about it as it will never be a main income but more like a bit of a bonus that drops every so often. upload & forget really.

 

[Jack]

but then means you may wait a year untill you reach that amount.

It all depends on how many images you sell, I don't worry about it as it will never be a main income but more like a bit of a bonus that drops every so often. upload & forget really.

Agree, probably depends on how good are these images too. Do you have to put certain amount of tags as well?

 

[Andy Smith]

but then means you may wait a year untill you reach that amount.

It all depends on how many images you sell, I don't worry about it as it will never be a main income but more like a bit of a bonus that drops every so often. upload & forget really.

I think you can put unto around 50 tags, but no minimum. Tags are useful if you get them right as that what people search for usually.

 

[Jack]

but then means you may wait a year untill you reach that amount.

It all depends on how many images you sell, I don't worry about it as it will never be a main income but more like a bit of a bonus that drops every so often. upload & forget really.

are those tags are automatically, or you have to write them down manually?

 

[Andy Smith]

but then means you may wait a year untill you reach that amount.

It all depends on how many images you sell, I don't worry about it as it will never be a main income but more like a bit of a bonus that drops every so often. upload & forget really.

You put your own tags Jack. I usually automate the input from Lightroom, as I have sets of tags set up for different subjects (and just manually add extras if needed). The tags & title of the images needs to be in the Metadata so I find Lightroom easiest for my workflow. Its a pain initially to get this set up, as you have to type it all manually but once done it makes life a lot easier.

 

[Jack]

but then means you may wait a year untill you reach that amount.

It all depends on how many images you sell, I don't worry about it as it will never be a main income but more like a bit of a bonus that drops every so often. upload & forget really.

is that within Lightroom? As I never checked for tags. I'm also not sure how useful they are for image metadata.