http://microstock.pixelsaway.com microstock photography Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:56:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My profit (after expenses) from microstock photography stayed at the same level of $1000 during the last three months of 2009 year. It happened to be my microstock goal for 2009. However, I was rather lucky in December. I produced a similar number of pictures for microstock as usual (~65), but ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/microstock-photography-earnings-%e2%80%93-december-2009/ November brought a slight drop in my earnings from microstock photography. I was quite busy last month adding 67 pictures to my portfolio - 1823 pictures in total with the largest selection online with Shutterstock - 1565. iStock, Shutterstock and Dreamstime provided 81% of my microstock earnings. My RPI (return ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/microstock-photography-earnings-%e2%80%93-november-2009/ Two years ago in the middle of November 2007 I started my adventure with microstock photography by submitting a few pictures to iStockphoto, and then to Dreamstime, Fotolio, 123RF and Bigstockphoto. It took me much longer to get into Shutterstock (4 attempts) and StockXpert (5 attempts). On November 28th, ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/2-years-ago-starting-microstock-photography/ First part of this article was easy. I simply decided that I would measure productivity of my portfolio in reference to the total number of pictures I have produced for microstock. These cover rejects, pictures not submitted and some multiple versions, so they represent my entire work for microstock including ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/am-i-really-making-money-from-microstock-photography-part-2/ I started my microstock adventure two years ago in the end of November 2007. I am regularly submitting pictures to 7 agencies (iStockphoto, Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Fotolia, StockXpert, Bigstockphoto, 123RF), and when I have time to a couple more. Every month I am posting here a microstock earnings report with nice ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/am-i-really-making-money-from-microstock-photography-part-1/ October was quite successful for my microstock photography. I added 80 pictures to my portfolio. Sales are still growing: BMEs for most of agencies, $1478 in total sales, $250 more than in September. iStockphoto, Shutterstock and Dreamstime provided 80% of earnings. My RPI (return per image taking into account the ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/microstock-photography-earnings-october-2009/ I started selling my pictures through microstock almost two years ago in November 2007. Today, I have about 1800 pictures in my stock portfolio. Since I am using Adobe Lightroom 2 to catalog all my pictures, I can easily sort them according to camera and lens. It provides some interesting ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/my-favorite-camera-and-lens-for-microstock-photography/ There is always a lot of discussion among photographers which microstock agency is the best performing one, which belongs to the "Big 6", is it Big 6 or Big 5, 4, ... On right there a screen shot of current poll from Microstock Group forum. That discussion is coming to ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/my-microstock-pie-earnings-split-by-agency/ I got more busy with microstock shooting in September and added 77 pictures to my portfolio. However, the September results are somewhat mixed. BME in iStock and Fotolia, a not bad performance of Shutterstock and Dreamstime, but my smaller players went down. I increased my earnings by 8% in comparison ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/microstock-photography-earnings-september-2009/ Unexpected acquisition of BigStockPhoto by Shutterstock is discussed everywhere today on all microstock forums and blogs. So, I took a quick look at my portfolio performance at BSP. I started to submit to BigStockPhoto in January 2008 and currently I have close 1300 pictures there. BSP provided 4.3% of my total ... http://microstock.pixelsaway.com/bigstockphoto-end-new-beginning/