MicrostockGroup

I have a collection of 30,000 images spanning 20 years of amateur/family photography and international travel AND international living (residents get different pictures than tourists).

The first 10 years are all film scans (which I plan to re-scan in higher resolution).

The second 10 years are mostly digital in progressively higher resolutions... 3MP, 5MP, 7MP, 12MP, 16MP.

The photos are tagged by country (includes U.S., Caribbean, South America, Europe, Middle East).

Any photos with people in them don't have model releases. Any photos from private places don't have property releases.

Where is the best macro/micro-stock site where I can simply "dump" all these images without having to organize them, and let the potential buyers sort through them?

Ideally the site should provide statistics so I can slowly over time tag the images that I think would be in higher demand.

Thanks

You are going to need keywords so buyers can find them but Alamy might be your best bet. .. it'll still take a lot of work getting them online.

Alternatively you could check out a site like photodeck where you can manage your own sales, but that also means you need to find your own buyers.

Flickr

Well you could 'dump' them all on Shutterstock and many people do each month, but if that's how you value your work I don't think you're going to make any real money, the days of just dumping stuff on micro or macro sites are long over.

I think the best way is interest you more about what microstock is... i presume that the majority of the 30k will be rejected due to the today requirements in industry.... If you want to be more easy for you to manage that quantity of files i think exclusivity to one agency is the best way....

You don't say if they are all your personal photographs or indicate your level of experience, but I'd say that unless these images were taken by someone with at least reasonable skill and with a view to marketing as stock, it's unlikely that more than 1 or 2 in a hundred would ever be likely to be worth the effort it would take to prepare them - so your first task is to identify, say, the best 500 or so and work with those.

There's no short cut - you may have 30,000 images, but the agencies have 30,000,000 or more between them, already tagged and captioned.  They're not going to do the work for you.

T'aint how it works, brotha.

mostphotos.com seems interesting. It appears they don't review / censor their images at all, sort of like Flickr... Any thoughts? I see they're at the bottom of the Low Earners. Which, wouldn't be a problem for me, I value convenience over income :-) (and no I'm not actually lazy, I just happen to have other stuff going on, such as a full-time job)

you can always drop the 30k files into https://www.picworkflow.com/