600 downloads for drawing a bird is a good deal, no questions, but as long as you know you're gonna make
that money out of that design.
what if you don't ?
What if your $1,000 photo never sells as RM?
i've plenty of good images that never sold.
actually all my favourite ones never sold.
but i can sell them in many other channels, or print and sell my own books,
or keep them in store for years, up to me.
there's nobody forcing me to give them away for less than a cup of coffee.
the ones that sell are repaying my production costs so i can do whatever
i want with my portfolio.
we should instead ask the designers what would they do if suddenly
micro images become expensive ? will they all go bankrupt ? or will
they pay decent prices as they did until a few years ago ?
i mean i worked in graphic design in my past life, it's simply
ridicolous to hear designers complain about prices ... they make
a lot of money, they ask insulting prices to their customers for
the most silly and obvious designs .. don't tell me that they can't
slash 50 bucks for a cover photo or something they really need.
go in any studio and ask for their simplest brochure ... 1000$ at least.
so why should I, providing the photos, get 5 bucks back ?
don't you see you're getting scammed ?
of course microstock is booming ... you're selling at indian or chinese prices
to client reselling at premium western prices.
it must be a new Eldorado for them ...
