MicrostockGroup

I've googled for those agency throughly, the only worth while seemS to be Alamy. Lots of the agencies are being closed down (like Zymmetrical etc). Any other suggestions besides Alamy? What I'm really looking for is selling RM, so I have the choice of becoming exclusive at IS if I wanted to in the future. I'm thinking of exclusivity mainly because of Vetta and the fact that SS sales are dropping in the last 2 months, it looks like you can't sell anything out of the box there just the same ol' MS crappy and boring photos like thousand s of people do and have to feed the beast like a mad man. Which I don't intend to do, I have a single session every month during the winter and up to 4 during the summer.

many are listed on

http://www.stockphoto.net/
http://www.photosource.com/psn_full.php?type=Headlines&id=358

but how much they sell is entirely different matter.

I guess (without any real knowledge) that you'll be looking to invest a decent amount of money.

main ones that come to mind (again not that I have a lot of experience here)

Getty - will probably only offer you photographers choice where you pay $50 an image to upload
Corbis
Age
Imagine

But they will be looking for very commercial stuff, I think you'll want some of the more boutique agencies

take a look at

http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2008/02/27/stock-photo-agencies/

it's  a bit dated but may still be worth a look

Phil

How much do they earn is the main question:). You can find tons of MS stats, charts and earning comparisons, but I couldn't find one for mid/macro stock.

Why should I invest so much? I mean for what purposes? Is it for gear, models&props or both? I thin Canon 1ds3 and a couple of good primes should do the trick for most of those agencies, I'm not looking for the high end anway, since I probably wouldn't get accepted anyway.

There are various avenues to get exposure to the midstock market, besides Alamy.

Zoonar (sells to micros and midstock...but you have to choose the pricing for each image and stick with it).
Panthermedia (sells cheap subs and midstock).
Canstock (occasionally I will get a midstock sale through their parent Fotosearch).
Veer (is borderline midstock...but I get almost zero sales, so does it really matter. ;o)

Hi there

I was involved with the macro agency scene for nearly 20 years. Top earner was £4,000 per month. From that it ranged down to £0 - same model as SS - Crestock!

Times changed, however the short answer is yes, there is good money in macro. I have no idea with the mid stock, neither have the above figures included Getty who have been hard work to deal with since day 1. In between there are 100's of agencies, and the trick is finding a good set. The successes are not as well known, neither are their names.

It comes to what you shoot - they will only bother if they think it will sell. You're in Slovenia I believe. Go to cepic.org, and have a look at the agents in the top European countries. Choose one from each country which fits what you do. Contact them, and take it from there. You can then build up 15 agencies with each dealing with their own country. Same pics can also still go to Alamy who don't really care.

I supply all the top and most middle tier micro - also Alamy - plus another 10 agents dotted around the globe. My knowledge is a bit old, and I am probably a dinosaur and failure compared to someone like Jonathan Ross over here - but it helps with the bills. There are many more avenues I don't deal with.

To end on a depressing note - the £4k per month day disappeared a long while ago.

Oldhand

It always depends on the image. A very high sale with Getty (about 2 months ago) was for about US$3000 – meaning about $900 for me. That's ONE sale. And from my own point of view, the image was 'nice' but certainly not 'spectacular'. It was a landscape, shot out of the window of a moving car. Mid-day, no specific 'wide-angle' or anything else like that... BUT it seemed to hit the spot with the advertising agency who bought it.

In other words: you never know. (And another indicator for me to rather submit to RM than Micro, unless it's 'obvious' micro material).

That's so bad. What a completely unscrupulous company.

Cutcaster.com is friendly to creative/unique/new style designs.  We may not have as many sales as some of the big 4 but we are picking up.  I would love to see your work.

Oh...and you can set your own prices!

Not true.

Oh BTW,  I just joined you!