Category: Microstock Photography
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Attempt to Venture into Shutterstock
Today I made my first attempt to apply for Shutterstock. Submitted the first 10 photos and waiting for the result. Below is a collage of the 10 photos I submitted: In truth, even if I get approved for Shutterstock as well, its not likely that I’ll be raking in the money at my rate of only producing…
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Yay! My second photo sale (after a year!)
I’ve finally got my 2nd photo sale (from istockphoto) after over a whole year. Pathetic I know… but I still only have 10 photos in my whole portfolio. Talk about the laziest microstocker ever… haha 🙂 (Of course I’ve sold more times than that if you consider all the partner programs which is run together with iStock, but…
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Some rocks, two walls and a lot of empty space…
Three more photos accepted for microstock. Although I don’t really foresee these selling, but at least it shows that the photos are of the minimum technical standard required. The next step is to take photos that are actually creative so that I can get actual sales. I do find that to get photos approved, you just need to leave a lot…
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Rejected…
From my last post, out of the five photos I submitted, the two which I liked more have already been rejected. Sigh. Once all five results are out, I will post the reason for the rejections. Could you guess which two I had slightly higher hopes for? Now, to be honest, since the ones I had slightly higher hopes…
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Microstock attempts… will any survive the inspector’s review (onslaught)?
Well, to be honest, I personally don’t think I stand much chance, but since I’ve been lazy for so long, I thought I’ll just submit a few that I took recently. Actually these are all just snapshots from dinner outings and one was from the photomarathon I mentioned before where I took a bunch of…
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My second (first photo) sale
Just realised that the same photo which was my “first photo sale” was sold one more time in August. I’m really not keeping up to date with this thing much (because as you can see, the sales are coming in extremely slowly). On another note, until now, I still haven’t tried to upload another photo…
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Rejections
Well, it wouldn’t be much of a blog about photography if I only ever posted about photos that succeeded and don’t mention about those that failed. So to prevent this blog from being merely a platform for my bragging, here are some photos that I submitted directly after I got my first sale (in my last post) and got…
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Yay! My first photo sale!
Yay! I just realised that I recieved my first stock photo sale! Despite not uploading anything since two months ago when I first started and only having a portofolio of merely 5 photos, I guess I’m damn lucky to be at least able to get one sale! :) Although it merely sold for USD$5.85 (SGD$7.37),…
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Approved Photos – Batch 1 (2/06/2012)
Just got my first set of photos approved. Actually, submitted 6 and only got 5 approved. Not bad for the first round, but then again, I was careful to only submit those that appeared technically safe but not necessarily the best in terms of creativity / composition so it might not sell well (or at…
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Hello (microstock) world!
Hello (microstock) world. This is my first blog post and roughly ties in with the beginning of my journey into microstock photography. In fact, my attempts to kick start actually began three years ago in 2009 when I first registered to iStockphoto site, however, with my lack of talent, it took me a full three attempts, over three years, before I…
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