![]() ![]() You add titles, captions, and keywords to all your pictures and then export them as JPEG files to upload to each individual agency via their websites or an FTP service using a program like Filezilla. The basic process is similar across all agencies. Shot with a Nikon D810 on Brown Bluff, Antarctica, in February 2016. They have blackheads and backs with white bellies. Every now and then, though, you take a picture that goes viral: I’ve sold my jumping penguin (see below) nearly 2,500 times! Three Adélie penguins watch another jumping between two ice floes. The rest of them are just sitting there, waiting for a buyer. I’ve had 16,665 downloads from microstock sites, but only 4,456 individual shots have ever been sold out of a total of 15,351. ]Įven if your pictures are accepted, of course, that doesn’t mean they’ll sell. I make about £300 a month from stock agency sales, but my overall acceptance rate is barely above 50%! ![]() I should mention that not all agencies will accept you, and not all your shots will be accepted by any agency that does, but you shouldn’t take it personally. Some agencies sell a lot of images but with low royalty rates, some the reverse, but here is the list of the ones I’ve used (in descending order of sales): In other words, it’s a passive income that you can build over time as you add more and more shots to your portfolio. The advantage of using them is that it’s ‘making money while you sleep’. Microstock agencies are online intermediaries that accept work from photographers and then market those images to potential clients such as creative directors of newspapers, magazines and other buyers. Shot with a Nikon D810 in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania in January 2018. In the last 12 months, I’ve made half my money from writing photography books and articles, another 35% from stock agencies, and 10% from print sales, but everybody’s different… An African elephant stares at the camera, showing its wrinkled skin, long trunk and left eye, and tusk. Every source of revenue has a part to play, and it’s just a question of working out where to focus your efforts. ![]() I’m still learning the business after eight years, but my approach has always been to knock on as many doors as possible, whether it’s image downloads, prints, competitions, books, lessons, or even talks. I wanted to be a photographer when I was 15, but my mother said I could always take it up later as a hobby – so that was that for 30 years! I finally got started in 2013 when I went on safari and climbed Mount Kenya. ![]()
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