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Just another SS Portfolio Critique Wanted :)
Yato:
Hey,
I started in November 2016 and uploaded about 100 pictures a month.
I focus on landscape and nature photography, I know it's one of the worst selling areas.
So far I have about 30 downloads a month, making 10$.
Is this normal and can you give me feedback for my portfolio?
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Yato [nofollow]
Every critique is appreciated no matter how cruel it is :)
Thanks, Yato
Pauws99:
--- Quote from: Yato on July 28, 2017, 05:26 ---Hey,
I started in November 2016 and uploaded about 100 pictures a month.
I focus on landscape and nature photography, I know it's one of the worst selling areas.
So far I have about 30 downloads a month, making 10$.
Is this normal and can you give me feedback for my portfolio?
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Yato
Every critique is appreciated no matter how cruel it is :)
Thanks, Yato
--- End quote ---
There OK but I think you know yourself in the current market they're not going to big sellers...either carry on with what you do as its what you enjoy or try and work on stuff thats more marketable/individual.
Brasilnut:
--- Quote ---So far I have about 30 downloads a month, making 10$.
Is this normal and can you give me feedback for my portfolio?
--- End quote ---
I'm also a travel photographer so I hope I can help.
Good news:
Your images are bright and vibrant which is good...they show up nicely on thumbnails. You have some nice tilt shift aerial stuff. keep shooting more of those and try to find new angles on already popular places - not easy to do but if done well you should be able to rank highly for some important keywords. I see you have a drone and it's still a new market so exploit as much as you can (and legally) these types of images.
Bad news:
Flowers, your dog (it's beautiful by the way), snapshots of beach...pretty ordinary stuff and difficult to make money with those as there's just too many of these - except for the beautiful waves at Algarve. You were also shooting some of the beach at harsh midnight sunlight thus diminishing its value.
I like your style, keep going! Hopefully you will get a $50+ license soon, probably on your aerial stuff. This should help you stay motivated to keep submitting 100 images a month for the next 2 years or so. By then you should be making $200-400 a month, but who knows how profitable micros is going to be in a few years...
Yato:
--- Quote from: Pauws99 on July 28, 2017, 05:47 ---
--- Quote from: Yato on July 28, 2017, 05:26 ---Hey,
I started in November 2016 and uploaded about 100 pictures a month.
I focus on landscape and nature photography, I know it's one of the worst selling areas.
So far I have about 30 downloads a month, making 10$.
Is this normal and can you give me feedback for my portfolio?
https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Yato [nofollow]
Every critique is appreciated no matter how cruel it is :)
Thanks, Yato
--- End quote ---
There OK but I think you know yourself in the current market they're not going to big sellers...either carry on with what you do as its what you enjoy or try and work on stuff thats more marketable/individual.
--- End quote ---
Thank you. Do you think, uploading more shots with people (mostly editorial), for instance in cities would make a difference?
Yato:
--- Quote from: Brasilnut on July 28, 2017, 06:09 ---
--- Quote ---So far I have about 30 downloads a month, making 10$.
Is this normal and can you give me feedback for my portfolio?
--- End quote ---
I'm also a travel photographer so I hope I can help.
Good news:
Your images are bright and vibrant which is good...they show up nicely on thumbnails. You have some nice tilt shift aerial stuff. keep shooting more of those and try to find new angles on already popular places - not easy to do but if done well you should be able to rank highly for some important keywords. I see you have a drone and it's still a new market so exploit as much as you can (and legally) these types of images.
Bad news:
Flowers, your dog (it's beautiful by the way), snapshots of beach...pretty ordinary stuff and difficult to make money with those as there's just too many of these - except for the beautiful waves at Algarve. You were also shooting some of the beach at harsh midnight sunlight thus diminishing its value.
I like your style, keep going! Hopefully you will get a $50+ license soon, probably on your aerial stuff. This should help you stay motivated to keep submitting 100 images a month for the next 2 years or so. By then you should be making $200-400 a month, but who knows how profitable micros is going to be in a few years...
--- End quote ---
Thanks a lot, I will try harder, finding new angles! Unfortunately that was not my drone. Those aerial shots were made from plane.
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