Actually besides the subject what i really would like to ask is, how many effort you will spend on your photo/video/illustration? either shooting, editing or drawing?
I am most of time a photographer on landscape, press button is a quite easy thing compare to other kind of task like you spend couple of hours to draw something on computer. But i know if i would like to give great picture/photos, work is far more than that, like to plan/design the scene, edit the photos afterwards. it really time consuming. I think video edit and illustration even much longer.
But we are in the microstock world (no consider macrostock so far), which mean the benefit of one pictures could only bring me very limited, which doesn't attract me to be a professional photographer and live with that. So each of my photo will only bring me very limited (without deeply edit).
I know some photographer will put a lot of energy on some single photos and also it will bring much benefit, but how much? is that worth to also give your a lot of extra time to work on it.
it's great to share your opinion.