FIRST SALE at PhotoShelter... WOOhOO!

cphoto

« on: June 04, 2008, 13:20 »

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Just received an email that I sold an RM image:

sold for $263.00, net for me: $184.10

I only have 15 images on line with them

Guess what... I'm going to be busy uploading with them again!

Cheers,
-Christophe


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epantha

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« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2008, 13:22 »

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Congratulations! Grin

They were the first agency I signed up with several months ago and I have a good feeling about the future. Wonderful to hear images are starting to sell and for that amount. Amazing!


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cphoto

« Reply #2 on: June 04, 2008, 13:26 »

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Quote from: epantha on June 04, 2008, 13:22

Congratulations! Grin

They were the first agency I signed up with several months ago and I have a good feeling about the future. Wonderful to hear images are starting to sell and for that amount. Amazing!

Thanks, I do believe this agency is going to be doing very well.

Here is the detail of the sale:
License: United States, Editorial / Publishing, Book.Retail, 1/4 Page, Up to 10,000

I would not have even had an EL with the micros for this kind of use Grin


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epantha

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« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2008, 13:28 »

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Really, I am so happy for you! This bodes well for the rest of us. We SHOULD be paid a decent amount for our best photos.


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Adeptris

« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2008, 13:47 »

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Great to hear you have a Macro sale Grin

I gave up the micro's two months ago for the macro's and these type of posts help justify the choice.

I started with Alamy and I have had a RF sale there $133 netting $86 for a 1640x1094 image, and when I had a portfolio of only 10 images, and I have just this weekend started with PhotoShelter.

I know these are small steps but don't they sure feel good! Cool


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cphoto

« Reply #5 on: June 04, 2008, 16:53 »

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Quote from: Adeptris on June 04, 2008, 13:47

Great to hear you have a Macro sale Grin

Congratulations

I'm sure you'll get plenty more sales with Alamy once you have a larger portfolio, and PhotoShelter looks indeed very promising.


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Slimshady

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« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2008, 03:20 »

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Congratulations!


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lilcrazyfuzzy

« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2008, 18:37 »

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I started with PSC too
http://psc.photoshelter.com/user/cyrilhou

They are very selective with their "news" images, and i am not sure you can reupload Huh


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cphoto

« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2008, 18:42 »

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Quote from: lilcrazyfuzzy on August 04, 2008, 18:37

I started with PSC too
http://psc.photoshelter.com/user/cyrilhou

They are very selective with their "news" images, and i am not sure you can reupload Huh

I did re-upload one that I really did not agree with the rejection and it went through the second time.

But yes they become very selective, 100% of my pictures taken hiking to Mt Whitney (tallest mountain in continental US) have been rejected, and I thought I had some pretty good shots Sad


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lilcrazyfuzzy

« Reply #9 on: August 05, 2008, 08:28 »

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I know! You go there with pretty unique images and they tell you, oh yeah- we got that subject pretty much covered Undecided

They have 35 results for "Aibus A380"
, but they rejected the few ILA shots i tried out

They good thing is that they accept images of lower resolution

I have to sort the thing with the taxes out, it seems like germany is in the 0% zone, so if i understand it well, i should fill out that form and i should get 70% of my earnings and not finance any unjustified war on foreign countries in any way, right ?! Grin


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cphoto

« Reply #10 on: August 05, 2008, 12:28 »

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Yep you're right. It's like the Tax treaty US has with France. Once you send the paperwork you'll get 70% of your sale.


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Fran

« Reply #11 on: August 05, 2008, 14:21 »

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Quote from: lilcrazyfuzzy on August 04, 2008, 18:37

I started with PSC too
http://psc.photoshelter.com/user/cyrilhou

They are very selective with their "news" images, and i am not sure you can reupload Huh

Funnily enough, i have higher acceptance rate on PSC than DT (67%) and ISP (a whooooping 54% I'm very proud of being a noob). I have about 75% on PSC.
It must be said that I really send only the very few sharpest shots and very selected.

I even got a EC I bragged about for about two weeks Cheesy


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lilcrazyfuzzy

« Reply #12 on: August 05, 2008, 15:17 »

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hehe,

Well, my rejections on PSC were not because of technical problems (although they don't like B&W images that much)
Most they just said that the subject is covered - or they soft-reject for the caption

what's an EC?


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sharply_done

« Reply #13 on: August 05, 2008, 15:27 »

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Quote from: lilcrazyfuzzy on August 05, 2008, 15:17

... what's an EC?

EC = Editor's Choice


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Magnum

« Reply #14 on: August 05, 2008, 15:40 »

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I bet they´re having a submission peak every time someone post here they sold one:) It really makes us go nuts Tongue


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lilcrazyfuzzy

« Reply #15 on: August 05, 2008, 18:34 »

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Quote from: sharply_done on August 05, 2008, 15:27

Quote from: lilcrazyfuzzy on August 05, 2008, 15:17

... what's an EC?

EC = Editor's Choice

Aight, thanks!


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litifeta

« Reply #16 on: August 05, 2008, 19:51 »

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wow! I have 180 sitting there to keyword. Congratulations.


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stozka

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« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2008, 09:05 »

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what do you think, i've started building portfolio on Photoshelter

http://psc.photoshelter.com/user/stozka

i migrated from microstock, because I believe that on macrostock pictures doesn't need that specific stock look. Or maybe I'm wrong.

Congrats on selling, cphoto.


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m@m

« Reply #18 on: August 08, 2008, 21:35 »

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Congrats on your sale with Photoshelter, been with them for a while myself, and have over 70 photos in my port, from news to pro-stock, I personally consider them the best of all sites, I'm very proud to be a contributor with them, they have the respect for photographers that has been lost on all other agencies...that's why my best work goes there.

Ones again congratulations my friend. Grin


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lobby

« Reply #19 on: August 22, 2008, 19:34 »

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i have 900 images seating for 9 months

few views

one sale for me (130 usd)


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stozka

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« Reply #20 on: August 27, 2008, 07:49 »

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have 900 images seating for 9 months

few views

one sale for me (130 usd)

can you post your link to psc, I would really like to see what kind of pictures you upload. Are you also active at alamy?


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WarrenPrice

« Reply #21 on: August 27, 2008, 10:53 »

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Isn't this a pay for storage site? I need a place to market some vintage motor sports images but am hesitant to pay to upload.


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ann

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« Reply #22 on: August 27, 2008, 11:13 »

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Quote from: WarrenPrice on August 27, 2008, 10:53

Isn't this a pay for storage site? I need a place to market some vintage motor sports images but am hesitant to pay to upload.

Congratulations, Christpohe! Grin

I'd be very interested to hear anything anyone has to share about PhotoShelter, since it's been intriguing me for quite a while.


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Adeptris

« Reply #23 on: August 27, 2008, 14:23 »

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Quote from: WarrenPrice on August 27, 2008, 10:53

Isn't this a pay for storage site? I need a place to market some vintage motor sports images but am hesitant to pay to upload.

Warren,
PhotoShelter has two interfaces, the Collection which is a Macrosite where you can upload specific images, they just like the microsites review (Edit) the images, if they are accepted then you can price them RF or RM for sale this service like other sites is free, no images in the collection are allowed to be on a microsite.

The second interface is as you say where you pay for space I have this as well $35 a month but there are cheaper options, and they have some features that allow you to offer your images for download sale or print, you set the price and drive your own traffic to the gallery, they can take care of the sale for a 10% fee, and the money goes straight to your paypal and they invoice you.

This is my Personal Sales Archive, linked from another website, you can use CSS to modify the look but I have not got that far yet:
http://pa.photoshelter.com/usr-show/U0000hocWAXVho_Y

They are trying hard, started to report some sales one photographer getting $8000 for a single image, I know of another $6000 from two images, but most are a couple of hundred dollars:

http://blog.photoshelter.com/school/2008/08/how-ryan-cardone-sold-an-image.html

They have a "School of Stock" and lots of information on what to shoot, based on buyers feedback, and just this week they have started selling limited edition prints, with a 50/50 split.

Will they be here in a couple of years, who knows but it is worth a go!

David!