What kind of stuff are you shooting?

The opposite of doom and gloom would probably be unbridled optimism.  The term carries an appropriate whiff of self-delusion with it.

It�s all good! Judgement day is not near

Sep so far.

SS - 2189 DL

FT - 1000 DL more or less


Lot�s of extended licenses on both sites + some 4k vids.

Haven�t checked the other sites.

People don't want realism. They want enhanced reality.

Just wondering, does that fake sun effect increase sales? Some indoor images without a window or anything even have a sunny glow. Looks weird, but I guess your sales prove me wrong.

No I am talking about another few images. The back lighting I understand.

Like this one in a subway

Quote from: Proteus on September 08, 2017, 07:51

Quote from: Uber Images on September 08, 2017, 04:31

It�s all good! Judgement day is not near

Sep so far.

SS - 2189 DL

FT - 1000 DL more or less


I thought you were only a short time at Shutterstock and in the microstock industry. I started 5 years ago, when Yuri Arcurs said it is no point to doing this, no money in microstock. It was 5 years ago. I started and my sales was incredible like yours now. I sold between 5-6 thousands photos only on Shutterstock per month with a portfolio of 4.000 images. It went on 2-3 years.  I have more than 11.000 images now, and I am happy if I can sell 1.000 images only a month. But as I look good I will sell 500 pictures this month.  So what I want to say is that you are not as good as you think you are. I also thought I was phenomenal, but I realized that this was just a business and nothing else. Your pictures are well done because, at low fee levels, the pictures are rated higher. Your revenue will soon decrease, no matter how good your pictures are, whatever you are going to do, you will only fall. I did not even think of Arcurs, who had done anything he could not grow. I said your pictures are not good, the time Arcurs is over. Sooner or later all micro stock photographers will experience what I've just written. It's just business and nothing else. There are thousands of people in your place who can take photos of them, and the company can sell it. The only difference is that with a 40% difference between newbies and veterans.  Many of my friends have gigantic portfolios, 30-40 thousand galleries, looking for amazing money in their first years. Then they stalled and then fell and fell. Whatever they did.


Lot�s of extended licenses on both sites + some 4k vids.

Haven�t checked the other sites.

How long have you been with SS? Are you alone or a team?

I own the company with my wife. We have a handfull of employees. We been with Shutterstock for two and a half year.

Uber Images is the name of our company.