Author Topic: How Much I can Make with 500 images (Read 15992 times)

langstrup · « **Reply #25 on:** July 09, 2015, 13:43 »

Hi PancakeTom

I know for a fact that´s not true, so let´s see about that

PROStalkFatagopher · « **Reply #26 on:** July 09, 2015, 21:01 »

You shall be rich beyond your belief! Bigstock is a very high earner with great royalties for contributors. I count my blessings for every 25 cents I EARN there. Oh yes, believe you me, you will be up to your neck in cold, hard cash, if your a gopher anyway...why, one of my tunnels has been rendered unnavigable for it's choked with quarters. Whew! I would go to my local CoinStar if I could reach that high. Alas, I'm just a gopher...(sigh)...

Rage · « **Reply #27 on:** July 09, 2015, 22:19 »

Quote from: PROStalkFatagopher on July 09, 2015, 21:01

You shall be rich beyond your belief! Bigstock is a very high earner with great royalties for contributors. I count my blessings for every 25 cents I EARN there. Oh yes, believe you me, you will be up to your neck in cold, hard cash, if your a gopher anyway...why, one of my tunnels has been rendered unnavigable for it's choked with quarters. Whew! I would go to my local CoinStar if I could reach that high. Alas, I'm just a gopher...(sigh)...

Guys, we found him...... The legendary stock photographing, rooting tooting gopher

All hail

marthamarks · « **Reply #28 on:** July 10, 2015, 01:10 »

Quote from: izzikiorage on July 09, 2015, 22:19

Quote from: PROStalkFatagopher on July 09, 2015, 21:01
You shall be rich beyond your belief! Bigstock is a very high earner with great royalties for contributors. I count my blessings for every 25 cents I EARN there. Oh yes, believe you me, you will be up to your neck in cold, hard cash, if your a gopher anyway...why, one of my tunnels has been rendered unnavigable for it's choked with quarters. Whew! I would go to my local CoinStar if I could reach that high. Alas, I'm just a gopher...(sigh)...
Guys, we found him...... The legendary stock photographing, rooting tooting gopher

All hail

Yep, and I think I've got his photo in my own critter collection on SS, DT, FT, et al. He's one verrrrry cute and cuddly gopher!

Titus Livius · « **Reply #29 on:** July 10, 2015, 02:40 »

Quote from: stockyme on July 07, 2015, 08:19

how much I can make with 500 photos

possibly nothing because you need a critical mass of a few 1000s to get a rough idea of what's working in your niche, 500 is just too small nowadays.

moreover, you won't get far anyway as a stocker with a small portfolio, it's all a numbers game now, if you can't produce enough you better forget about stock and focus on fine art or whatever else you're good for.

PROStalkFatagopher · « **Reply #30 on:** July 10, 2015, 02:45 »

Quote from: marthamarks on July 10, 2015, 01:10

Quote from: izzikiorage on July 09, 2015, 22:19
Quote from: PROStalkFatagopher on July 09, 2015, 21:01
You shall be rich beyond your belief! Bigstock is a very high earner with great royalties for contributors. I count my blessings for every 25 cents I EARN there. Oh yes, believe you me, you will be up to your neck in cold, hard cash, if your a gopher anyway...why, one of my tunnels has been rendered unnavigable for it's choked with quarters. Whew! I would go to my local CoinStar if I could reach that high. Alas, I'm just a gopher...(sigh)...
Guys, we found him...... The legendary stock photographing, rooting tooting gopher

All hail

Yep, and I think I've got his photo in my own critter collection on SS, DT, FT, et al. He's one verrrrry cute and cuddly gopher!

Or have I found you? Ah yes, those are my fellow gophers you have captured in your images. Make no mistake those are some naughty ones though. They are concocting a plan to tunnel under every photo "agency" to demand higher royalties and respect or leave them with even shakier foundations.

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #31 on:** July 10, 2015, 16:21 »

Quote from: marthamarks on July 10, 2015, 01:10

Yep, and I think I've got his photo in my own critter collection on SS, DT, FT, et al. He's one verrrrry cute and cuddly gopher!

are you 3 talking literally about gophers???

if so, go to the SS forum under the thread "SOD" and you will find gopher announcing SOD sale for this month.
imagine SOD for gopher. we have lots of them here all over the land . why would anyone pay SOD for a picture of a gopher???

even scarier when it is announced in SS forum of your great SOD .

no wonder all our stock contributors of old-school are seeing a big drop in earnings. all the 38 centers.
time to get my grand child to be a contributor and give him a mob to take pics of gophers and all these critters tearing up my land

Rage · « **Reply #32 on:** July 11, 2015, 21:31 »

Looks like there is a niche for gophers... Both as subjects and photographers

marthamarks · « **Reply #33 on:** July 11, 2015, 21:41 »

Quote from: izzikiorage on July 11, 2015, 21:31

Looks like there is a niche for gophers... Both as subjects and photographers

LOL!!!!!!!!!

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #34 on:** July 12, 2015, 03:36 »

Here's actual numbers: $2700-$4900+/month or $0(literally)/month

I just checked and those are the actual figures for my top 500 and bottom 500 earning images this year

Rage · « **Reply #35 on:** July 12, 2015, 06:25 »

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 12, 2015, 03:36

Here's actual numbers: $2700-$4900+/month or $0(literally)/month

I just checked and those are the actual figures for my top 500 and bottom 500 earning images this year

That's the problem here. There are so many ifs and buts that go into making a successful image. All skill aside, when it got uploaded, luck in the initial few downloads, search placement and all will put it on a great upward sprial... Or make it totally disappear

dirkr · « **Reply #36 on:** July 12, 2015, 13:13 »

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 12, 2015, 03:36

Here's actual numbers: $2700-$4900+/month or $0(literally)/month

I just checked and those are the actual figures for my top 500 and bottom 500 earning images this year

So you have 500 images that together produce more than $2700 each month?

Congrats, that's impressive.

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #37 on:** July 13, 2015, 03:15 »

Quote from: dirkr on July 12, 2015, 13:13

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 12, 2015, 03:36
Here's actual numbers: $2700-$4900+/month or $0(literally)/month

I just checked and those are the actual figures for my top 500 and bottom 500 earning images this year

So you have 500 images that together produce more than $2700 each month?

Congrats, that's impressive.

Thanks, I do, those 500 images made me $2700 in the worst month of the year so far and $4900 in the best.

And that is a super misleading stat.

I have a very large portfolio, the next 500 best earning earn me half that, and those top 1000 make up more than 50% of my total sales. Above a certain quality threshold it is basically a numbers game. If you have one or two images in your portfolio of a few hundred images making you $5 a month when you have a few thousand you can multiply that up. If I just give you the stats of my best sellers I can make myself look like some kind of stock genius, when actually I am pretty average for a pro producer.

ETA just checked and my images for zero earnings for 2015 actually number close to 2000. I almost didn't want to check that, but how depressing, all that work for probably no returns at all!

Rage · « **Reply #38 on:** July 13, 2015, 06:05 »

Might just being in long term returns. I've seen a few images that take time to get discovered, but then sell well. Others specially in SS will sell well only if they start like a house on fire..

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #39 on:** July 13, 2015, 06:31 »

Quote from: izzikiorage on July 13, 2015, 06:05

Might just being in long term returns. I've seen a few images that take time to get discovered, but then sell well. Others specially in SS will sell well only if they start like a house on fire..

There will always be a big chunk of images that never get discovered or sell well regardless of quality or saleability. Many of the 2000 zero earners have been up for years. If I included images that were low earners over their lifetime, i.e. more than zero but never paid me back for the work put in, that would probably add several thousand images to that 2000. There is a big luck factor involved whatever the agencies try to tell you.

Rage · « **Reply #40 on:** July 17, 2015, 13:56 »

That's there... Like that guy with the amazing lightening photo that got monsoon pic of the year and sold well. I'm sure there are others who have similar great images that are 0 earners

ComfortEagle2095 · « **Reply #41 on:** July 17, 2015, 14:25 »

In my experience the Pareto principle applies very well: 20% of my photographs earm 80% of my income. It's been that way for 10 years.

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #42 on:** July 17, 2015, 14:55 »

Agreed, I think of it like a lottery. It's luck but you can improve your chances by buying more tickets. Each high quality saleable image is another entry, but if I think of it on an image by image basis I'd go mad with frustration. You have to think about the earning from your whole portfolio.

The problem is that when someone looks at your portfolio they look at the top earners and think, "wow all I need to do is produce 500 images as good as that and I'll be making the same amount of money". The reality is even if they could upload the exact same 500 as my top earners they would just be entering the lottery 500 times, while I had to enter many, many thousands of times for those 500 wins. Psychologically it's very hard to get that across, even now people are reading this thinking they can make $5000 a month with a portfolio of 500 images if only they can produce the right ones.

Hongover · « **Reply #43 on:** July 17, 2015, 15:57 »

It is possible to make $5000 from $500 images, but it's not without a lot of trial and error and lots of knowledge about specific markets.

I calculated that if you have 500 images, you just need a download for each image per day at $.33 to make about $5000/month. It's certainly possible.

Right now, I have a few images that are very unique to its category. In the 45 million images on SS, only my images show up for a specific keyword(s) and I get on average 1-2 download per day based on that keyword(s). Now I just need 497 more of those type of images.

qwerty · « **Reply #44 on:** July 18, 2015, 02:06 »

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 13, 2015, 03:15

Quote from: dirkr on July 12, 2015, 13:13
Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 12, 2015, 03:36
Here's actual numbers: $2700-$4900+/month or $0(literally)/month

I just checked and those are the actual figures for my top 500 and bottom 500 earning images this year

So you have 500 images that together produce more than $2700 each month?

Congrats, that's impressive.
Thanks, I do, those 500 images made me $2700 in the worst month of the year so far and $4900 in the best.

And that is a super misleading stat.

I have a very large portfolio, the next 500 best earning earn me half that, and those top 1000 make up more than 50% of my total sales. Above a certain quality threshold it is basically a numbers game. If you have one or two images in your portfolio of a few hundred images making you $5 a month when you have a few thousand you can multiply that up. If I just give you the stats of my best sellers I can make myself look like some kind of stock genius, when actually I am pretty average for a pro producer.

ETA just checked and my images for zero earnings for 2015 actually number close to 2000. I almost didn't want to check that, but how depressing, all that work for probably no returns at all!

On Bigstock or across all your agencies. This is a confusing thread.

Justanotherphotographer · « **Reply #45 on:** July 18, 2015, 04:39 »

I was talking about across the top five agencies, missed that this was in the Bigstock section. Imagine earning anything like that off of Bigstock! You could maybe even make it up a rank!

qwerty · « **Reply #46 on:** July 18, 2015, 18:41 »

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on July 18, 2015, 04:39

I was talking about across the top five agencies, missed that this was in the Bigstock section. Imagine earning anything like that off of Bigstock! You could maybe even make it up a rank!

Hence my clarification question. Bigstock makes 3% of my earnings. so if 3% = $4900 then the drinks are on you

GoetzPhilippines · « **Reply #47 on:** July 19, 2015, 18:58 »

With 500 photos you make a money - but just a small one.

I started 3 month ago with stock and now just have around 20 - 100 photos online - but that are the numbers for 13 agencies now.
I am not in a rush with earning, I do this thing slowly - maybe I will upload 200-300 photos a year, but I will do this constantly over the next years and if the market isn't going down the drain totally I will earn some money each month in about 3-5 years from now.

If you need to earn money fast better go work in an office :-)

einstein · « **Reply #48 on:** September 09, 2015, 13:22 »

500 Illustrations will make you on average about 60$/month if I you submit to 10 best known websites. My own value is a little bit higher, but I estimate that this is the average for many.

Rage · « **Reply #49 on:** September 10, 2015, 07:18 »

OP I'm sure you have some images up now. So how much are you earning with your current portfolio?

Had a good month in aug. Made about $50 with most of it coming from SS (85 files online) and iStock (480 files online).

Guess not all pics are created equal

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Author Topic: How Much I can Make with 500 images (Read 15992 times)

langstrup

PROStalkFatagopher

Rage

marthamarks

Titus Livius

PROStalkFatagopher

etudiante_rapide

Rage

marthamarks

Justanotherphotographer

Rage

dirkr

Justanotherphotographer

Rage

Justanotherphotographer

Rage

ComfortEagle2095

Justanotherphotographer

Hongover

qwerty

Justanotherphotographer

qwerty

GoetzPhilippines

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